Shop Floor Module
A Touch Screen Operator Interface that You Create
FACTIVITY can make sense of all factory floor data being collected so you can see how effectively you’re using machine resources and labor to help identify areas for making process improvements. FACTIVITY Shop Floor Module provides the easy-to-use, intuitive and configurable operator interface that is the hallmark of our success.
How it works
Our touch screen design is a real-time platform which provides a one touch approach to accurate labor time, visibility to machine performance, error proofing of BOM material usage, scrap and downtime logging, as well as, on demand bar code label printing.
The supervisor screen provides visibility and control of all activity on the machines and work centers. Supervisors can use a detailed, paperless, dispatch listing and a schedule Gantt of all the shop orders. Supervisors can use one or both views to sequence shift loads and assign work to different machines. Jobs can be split onto multiple machines to help expedite the delivery to customer or group order into one “nested” order to help minimize the operator reporting, making it more efficient.
Experience the Benefits
A configurable dashboard is available for viewing on giant screen monitors throughout the plant.
Included in this Module, is a complete set of management data presented in charts and spreadsheets. Also provided is an easy to learn report writer facility that allows you to customize your own views of our data. Each report can be delivered peerlessly to any of the FACTIVITY floor station at a touch of a button for real-time viewing:
OEE both real-time and analytics
- Performance summarized with drill-down to specific resources
- Downtime and Scrap summarized and in detail by reason codes
- Labor Time Performance and Accountability by shift
- Part Flow Analysis (Queue/Bottleneck Identification)
Getting Started
FACTIVITY Shop Floor Module helps you work around unanticipated changes. Decision support is provided by “seeing” each part and process in real time. This helps reduce the need for expensive outsourcing, safety stock inventory build-up and premium transportation, while improving labor efficiency and machine utilization.
FACTIVITY Shop Floor is the “WINDOW-INTO-YOUR-FACTORY” which measures each job as it moves through your production process making it the go-to factory floor solution for Production Management.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Shop Floor Module is the foundation of FACTIVITY MES — the core operator interface and data collection engine. It handles labor time tracking at the job and operation level, production quantity reporting, material usage tracking against the BOM, scrap and downtime logging with reason codes, barcode label printing on demand, and job dispatch management. Everything runs through the touch screen operator interface at work center terminals, capturing data as work happens rather than after the fact. The Shop Floor Module alone provides the visibility and accountability that most manufacturers are seeking from an MES — the other modules add paperless documents, quality capture, and machine monitoring on top of this foundation.
The operator interface is designed to be configured by non-technical users without programming. Production managers or administrators can customize the screens, button layouts, colors, and workflow sequences to match the plant's specific processes and terminology. This means the interface can reflect how work actually flows in a particular facility rather than forcing operators to adapt to a generic template. The configuration flexibility is one of the reasons FACTIVITY deploys quickly — the system adapts to the plant rather than requiring the plant to adapt to the system.
Supervisors have a dedicated view that gives them visibility and control over all activity across their work centers. The paperless dispatch listing shows every shop order in priority sequence. A schedule Gantt provides a visual representation of the workload across machines and shifts. Supervisors can split jobs across multiple machines to expedite delivery, group orders into nested jobs to reduce reporting overhead, or resequence work to respond to changing priorities. Job hours can be approved and time entries edited by supervisors with appropriate authority. All of this happens in real time from the supervisor's terminal rather than through end-of-shift paperwork.
The Shop Floor Module includes a complete set of management KPI reports delivered in charts and spreadsheets — OEE real-time and analytics, performance by resource with drill-down, downtime and scrap by reason code, labor time accountability by shift, and Part Flow Analysis for bottleneck identification. A configurable dashboard is available for display on large screens throughout the plant. An easy-to-learn report writer lets users create custom views of the data without technical expertise. Any report can be delivered electronically to any floor terminal at the touch of a button for real-time viewing by operators or supervisors on the floor.
Every operator clocks in and out of the factory and in and out of each job through the system. FACTIVITY records start and stop times automatically, creates a labor time record for every operation on every job, and flags anomalies — over-reporting, under-reporting, quantities that don't align with time standards, or components not on the bill of material. Rules can be applied to handle daily start/stop and lunch time adjustments. Supervisors can review and approve job hours directly. The result is a detailed, accurate record of how labor time is being spent across every job and work center — replacing time tickets that are often estimated, delayed, or inaccurate.