JobBOSS | Ideas

Quite often after a traveler/ router is printed and a job is scheduled (with a particular machine in mind based on workload and other things) an operation will be moved to another machine for various reasons like machine down, current job taking longer to manufacturer and such. What happens is that a machines efficiency doubles because Jobboss thinks 2 operations are running at the same time because each operation gets a full 10hr shift applied to it. I.E. operation A on job 1234 and operation B on job 2345 are both scheduled/ routed for machine A. Operation B on job 2345 is moved to machine B. Operation B's time is put against machine A so it doubles machine A's efficiency because Jobboss thinks 20hrs worth of work/labor was done in 10 machine hours.

We tried having scheduling change the machine, but I was told it changes the bar code and makes the barcode on the already printed traveler/ router invalid. Our travelers/routers are typically printed days in advance because of our workflow and procedures so waiting until a job/operation is ready to start will not work for us. Allowing an operator to change the work center would fix that.