One of the columns in the lists that show the available work in SFC displays the codes of the production orders that the operation lines belong to. If your company prefers to work with the production file codes, you need to change the setting in Production identified by to 'Production file'.

This setting controls the creation of production receipts. You can use it to create and process them automatically when quantities are registered for the last operation in a production order.

You have the following options:

• No: Do not create production receipts on registering quantities for the last operation.
• Yes: Create production receipts on registering quantities for the last operation, but do not process them immediately.
• Yes, and process: Create production receipts on registering quantities for the last operation, and process them immediately.

If you choose 'Yes' or 'Yes, and process', you can also choose to generate lot numbers for your produced quantities. Set a Lot number template in the Operation settings window to make this possible.

The Lot number template field is only accessible if you have set the Create production receipts setting to 'Yes' or 'Yes, and process'. If you create production receipts, you can generate lot numbers for your produced quantities, and the lot number template defines the way you number your lots. For instance, if you want the lot number to start with the year, followed by a sequence number, you could set the field to '2019-00000'. The first lot number Shop Floor Control will use, will then be '2019-00001'. The Lot number template field will always show the last lot number that was assigned.

To reset the numbering - for instance at the beginning of the year, if the year is part of the number - change the lot number template field.

Note: Make sure you have sufficient positions to accommodate incrementing sequence numbers. For instance, if you reserve just two positions of the lot number for the sequence number, you will only be able to accommodate 99 lot numbers.

Settings

To generate lot numbers during production:

• set the Create production receipts field to 'Yes' or 'Yes, and process'
• set a template in the Lot number template field
• go to the Articles form, Calculation/production tab, Lot numbers heading and make sure that generating lot numbers is active for all articles that need lot numbers.

Lot numbers will only be generated when quantities are booked on the final operation of the production order, as this is the only time the booking of quantities leads to production receipts.

Activate this setting to add a button to Shop Floor Control that allows your employees to see production receipts that have resulted from the production order.

The button is visible on:

• the Operations form
• the Current machine operations form
• the Current operation form
• the Current cluster form.

Note: If Show production receipts button is active, Automatically open production receipts becomes available.

When booking produced quantities during production, it is possible to automatically generate production receipts.

• If you want the Production receipts form to open automatically whenever production receipts are created, set the field to 'Always'.
• The produced part(s) can also be assigned a lot or object number. If you want the form to open only if this has happened, set the field to 'Only when generating lot or object numbers'.
• If you set this field to 'Never', employees can still see the production receipts by clicking the production receipts button ().

Note: You can only edit this field if Show production receipts button is activated.

When produced items are registered, this setting determines whether the parts are issued automatically.

This setting has the following options:

• No: No automatic issue
• Yes: Automatic issue, but issues are not processed immediately
• Yes, and process: Automatic issue, and issues are processed immediately.

This field sets the initial status code for unplanned, new operations that are created in the SFC application. Operations with this status code will always be shown in the operations overview, regardless of the operation status range defined in the settings.

This setting determines whether manual issues will be processed immediately.

Please note: Manual issues from stock are only possible if backflushing is set to inactive for the part in question.

Parts needed for an operation can be issued from SFC. Both planned and unplanned parts issues are possible. Usually, parts will be taken from the stock inventory, but if the setting Issue purchased parts is activated, it is also possible to issue parts that have been purchased for the operation. In this case, SFC will not only show stock inventory lines for the parts needed for an operation, but purchase lines as well.

Conditions

Parts can only be issued from purchase if the following conditions are met:

• WIP Location for purchase to production is set to active
• Backflushing is set to inactive.

These settings can be found on the Logistics tab of the Parts module. The WIP location can be set to active or inactive for each part, but the configuration of the WIP location can only be changed in the General Settings module.

Parts needed for an operation can be issued from SFC. Both planned and unplanned parts issues are possible. Usually, parts will be taken from the stock inventory, but if the setting Issue produced parts is activated, it is also possible to issue parts that have been produced in your company. In this case, SFC will not only show stock inventory lines for the parts needed for an operation, but lines with parts coming from production as well.

Conditions

Parts can only be issued from production if the following conditions are met:

• WIP Location for production to production is set to active
• Backflushing is set to inactive.

These settings can be found on the Logistics tab of the Parts module. The WIP location can be set to active or inactive for each part, but the configuration of the WIP location can only be changed in the General Settings module.

If you want to be able to create or change clusters in SFC, activate this field. If this field is not activated, clusters can only be created and changed in Isah.

Please note: Working with clusters in Isah and/or SFC is only possible if clusters are included in your Isah license.

Activate this field to enable employees to register produced quantities for clusters. Leave this setting empty if your company never works with quantities when operations have been clustered.

Activate this setting if users are allowed to change the operation Memo field in SFC. Any alterations will be saved automatically, but a Save button is available, as well as Undo and Redo buttons.

If a machine has been allocated to an operation in Isah, SFC will show this machine in the operation line. If SFC users are allowed to change the machine or add a machine where none is specified, activate the setting Machine editable. The button for changing machines in SFC () is only visible if this setting has been activated.

If the field is left empty, machines cannot be changed in SFC.