Hi Everyone, I'm currently working on an implementation for a manufacturing business and am wondering what best practices for tracking “downtime’’ in production orders during the manufacturing process. For example:a production worker is injured during the production run and the manufacturing line halts for 30 minutes. or a piece of machinery has techincal issues and is serviced on the fly for 10/15 minuteswhat would be the best way to track this downtime vs the actual labor captured.Open to any ideas, recommendations.Much appreciated

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Tracking labor and downtime - Processes for managing actual labor and downtime in Acumatica”

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
September 10, 2023
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BobbySandhu
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Hi Everyone,

I'm currently working on an implementation for a manufacturing business and am wondering what best practices for tracking “downtime’’ in production orders during the manufacturing process.

For example:

a production worker is injured during the production run and the manufacturing line halts for 30 minutes.
or a piece of machinery has techincal issues and is serviced on the fly for 10/15 minutes

what would be the best way to track this downtime vs the actual labor captured.

Open to any ideas, recommendations.

Much appreciated

Best answer by EMADSSWK66

Create a work center called Down Time?
For labor entry, use this work center to record hours spent during down-time.
By treating it as a work center you’ll have the ability to record down-time with it’s own standard cost. And sill have a unique labor code associated to the Down Time WC’s shift as suggested by @angierowley75.

By making it a WC, you can probably use some of the out of box MFG reports as well to report on Labor hours spent in Down Time WC.

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angierowley75
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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
September 11, 2023

Could you use a different Labor Code?

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EMADSSWK66
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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
September 14, 2023

Create a work center called Down Time?
For labor entry, use this work center to record hours spent during down-time.
By treating it as a work center you’ll have the ability to record down-time with it’s own standard cost. And sill have a unique labor code associated to the Down Time WC’s shift as suggested by @angierowley75.

By making it a WC, you can probably use some of the out of box MFG reports as well to report on Labor hours spent in Down Time WC.

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