There is a neat feature in the Shop Floor Workbench (SFWB) that allows the operator to manage downtime transactions and manually add downtime results and clockings.  These are created by either the start and stop downtime from the SFWB and optionally, from the same functions on the Time Clock.

In an environment that does NOT use shop orders but produces on production schedules, my customer would like to manually add downtime results but they find it less than desirable to have an operator go to the SFWB.  The ultimate goal is this is to develop performance reports that uses a lot of this information and others and possibly position themselves for OEE.

I am open to suggestions as to how to do this as efficiently as possible. Is there a way to just add the “Manage Downtime” functions to the navigator???

This customer does not report time by employee so I thought having the production line workcenters as employees and perhaps wage codes as the part numbers they are producing  and use the manual result to capture the elapsed time the machine is “operating” (the employee is “working”).  That gives us the “running time” of the machine.

Downtime is captured by the workcenter and resource but the downtime does NOT affect the elapsed time of the machine.  THe machine can “be available to run” 8 hours but if any of those hours are downtime, there are no relationships between them.  The only way would be to develop some grandiose multi table query or BI function to get this all.

I appreciate ANY input on this!