In this video, I walk you through how to manage production jobs using manufacturing orders and work orders in Digit. I cover the creation process, the different job types, and how to track progress effectively. I encourage you to explore the features and provide feedback on your experience. Let's ensure our operators have the right tools to succeed!
Video Transcript
0:00 You can manage production jobs in Digit by using manufacturing orders and work orders. These can be found in the left navigation underneath the operations section.
0:11 Manufacturing orders are like production jobs that provide all of the information necessary needed. The components that are needed to build the item, the routing steps that are needed for the item to go through on your production floor to be made, along with helpful information related to sales orders.
0:32 If the manufacturing order is tied to a. Sales order work instructions and other helpful things that will help operators complete this job.
0:38 You can create a manufacturing order by clicking on the create manufacturing order button here in the manufacturing order table. Or you can go into a sales order that has a.
0:48 . to order item and you can click on the make button within that order to bring up to create manufacturing order screen.
0:57 Here you'll see a lot of really helpful data. At the top you'll see material materials that are needed in order to make this job.
1:03 And then at the bottom you'll see all of the different operation steps or routing steps that this needs to go through in order to be made.
1:11 On the right you'll see that information from the sales order has been brought in automatically. And you can. We will information and configure different settings related to the manufacturing order here in the pane on the right.
1:22 We have three different job types, conversion, production, and Q. Conversion allows you to take a known quantity of input and convert it into an unknown quantity of output.
1:32 Production Equipment, which is our most common, allows you to create X amount of a certain finished good. And Q. Conversion allows you to convert materials from one state into another.
1:42 We'll stick with production for now. The packing type is the option here. If you pack any finished goods. On the line.
1:51 Or on line side. You can select what type of packaging you'd like. No packing means that the products that are coming off the line.
1:58 Just get put onto the shell for shipped as is. Standard means they get put into a container of some kind.
2:03 Could be a box. Could be a. Nested is if these items go into a container and then are palletized or put into another container on top of that.
2:11 Here we'll select item with the container type. If you do have some kind of packing, you can come in here and customize what containers you use.
2:21 You may have reusable totes, you may have pallets, you may have bags, whatever it is, you can add them here.
2:25 You can name them, you can move them around, you can set tear weights all here within digit. For this one, we'll select item.
2:33 You can come in and select the quantity of things that you're wanting to make. So in this case, we'll make 1,000 smartphone cases, and you can select when production will start and when it will end.
2:45 If you want to mark this as a rush job, you can toggle that on, and you can add any category or tab- information here.
2:51 We also have the ability to add custom fields, like in other objects in digit, like sales orders. You can add custom fields here.
2:58 These custom fields can be a text, a number, date, ID, or single select. Once you're ready to create the manufacturing order, we'll hit the create ammo button here below, and we'll see that the manufacturing order has been created.
3:12 In the manufacturing order view screen, you can see a status that it's not started and that it is a rushed job.
3:17 Along with who made it and the time stamp of when they made it. Here, you'll see all of the components that are needed to complete this manufacturing order, along with how which ones are available and where they are located in your warehouse.
3:33 Employers can either scan the barcode straight from the shelf of that material to pull into the job here, or they can click into a row to see an itemized list of inventory here from this list to then pick manually.
3:45 Below, you'll see all of the different work orders that were created automatically. I'm from the manufacturing order, and this allows different operators on different lines or different machines to manage their specific part of the workflow in order to complete this manufacturing order.
4:00 On the right, you'll see the information that we've set up in the create state, along with the pro- progress bar that will update as items are being made off the line.
4:12 All of that can be managed here, back on the main manufacturing order table. You'll see that manufacturing order number 34 has been created with that information here.
4:21 If this was tied in to a sales order that had a customer PO number on it, you would see that information here.
4:28 And you can see the gap of how much is left to make who created it, the status, other helpful data there.
4:35 We'll switch over into in-progress manufacturing order So here, we can see all of the manufacturing orders that are currently in progress and have not completed.
4:44 You can go and click into any one of these to see a live status of what's been picked, what work orders have been completed, where is the job currently at?
4:54 In case sales or somebody internally is wanting to know. And what delays may be on the horizon in the future or when this can be expected to be done.
5:03 You can view all of the different picked items, see the specific labels that went into the job, which will be nice for a new costing feature that will- will be launching shortly.
5:14 Going into the work order table now, we have the separate table for specific work orders and this is what we have a lot of shop floor operators access, really as their home screen.
5:24 Here, we have an assigned to button. So, any work order can be assigned to an operator and then you can filter or group this table by who the work order has been assigned to.
5:35 So, you can have operators come in and sign up on tablets or desktop computers or laptops. And they can see a filter version where they are only seeing the work orders assigned to them.
5:45 So, they can come in and start their day and just work top to bottom to make sure all the production jobs get done and on time.
5:52 see inside a work order, you can simply click on the work order number to bring up the work order details screen.
5:58 This is what operators are going to be seeing when they're managing work orders, often on tablets or line side computers.
6:06 We have a lot of users who will hide the side navigation here to- It can be a very clean and simple interface for the users.
6:11 And now they can click start if you want to track the time they're spending on the job. And you'll see a timer that starts counting the seconds as they're working on it.
6:20 As they're creating finished inventory, or as- That's it. As they're making batches, if this is a work order, uhm, that's feeding another work order in the job, you can capture those batches here by entering a number and then clicking make batch.
6:36 Users can then edit this data, they can see how many they've made, and they can keep track. We'll make a few more batches here to get up to 175, and then we'll pause to either go to lunch or maybe it's the end of the day to then come back tomorrow in order to finish.
6:56 The next day will come, let's say that we restart, and let's go ahead and just fill out the remaining 325 pieces for this order.
7:04 We'll hit complete work order, which will stop the timer, capture the total time they've spent, and allow the job to move on to the next day.
7:13 Next step. We'll quickly go into manufacturing under number three through this direct link, and you can see that we just completed work order number 17. We have zero pieces left to make, it's been completed, and now we know that we can go and finish the rest of these work.
7:29 You can edit manufacturing orders in work orders by clicking on the dots up here, and you can delete them if they're accidentally created. This is just the tip of the iceberg for what digit allows manufacturers to manage.
7:44 As we're, Looking to help with production jobs on the floor, making sure that shop floor operators are working on the right task at the right time, and giving production management and sales increased insight and visibility into progress, capacity, job cost.
8:01 That's That's amazing and much fun.