Failures

Failure codes can be used to indicate the reason for a failure or delay in an operation. Failure codes are used for informational purposes and are not mandatory. For ease of reference, failure codes can be organized into failure groups.

If you register failures using codes during time registration, you could print a report of all failures that occurred in a particular period. This will make it easier to detect any structural problems.

Example

In the preliminary costing phase, it was assumed that an order would require two hours of sawing work. When registering the hours, it appears that in actual fact five hours were spent due to a machine malfunction. In this case, you can post these five hours to the operation 'Sawing', and assign a failure code to this posting. This will enable you to check in the future why the operation took so long.

To be able to check the exact time of the failure and the exact time spent on the operation, the failure and the operation can be transferred separately. If the failure in the example above lasted for two hours, and the operation took three hours, you will post two hours against the failure code 'Mechanical fault' and three hours against the operation 'Sawing'.

Example of organization into failures