So we have a little bit of a unique situation where we have engineering time going on to the same jobs as the production time. Basically empty jobs will be released and engineering will do there work and put time to it. Then when they are done, we populate the job with the details of the BOM’s that they just created. They, in order to keep people on the shop floor from clocking into jobs they aren’t actually working on, and to increase the speed of the the work queue, we un-release the jobs after they are built until they physically ready to start production.
Occasionally, engineers still have more time to put on the jobs in the holding period. Right now, I release the job, they put their time on it, and I un-release it. Not a big deal but a little annoying.
Is there a way to release certain operations on a job, but not everything? I’m thinking probably not without some heavy customization, but I thought I would throw the question out there to see if someone had an elegant solution.