We are currently in 23R1 and are prepping to go to 24R1 in IFS Cloud. But, we are having a bit of an issue with our Shop Orders and associated time reporting. We normally will set our Routings to have identical Machine Run and Labor Run Factors, and we adjust our Work Center Capacities to account for the number of people there (e.g. 1 person is 100% efficiency, 2 people is 200%, etc.). But, with our larger projects, it is very common to have something take a month to manufacture. And, during this time, it is VERY normal for the sites to add additional people to a Work Center for a day or two if they have some extra workers available (say, another Work Center is down for material issues or Maintenance). But, when this happens, our Remaining Hours gets out of alignment.
For example, Person A will Start Production for the day, starting Labor and Machine Time, and then use Stop Production when they are done, totaling 10 hours for the day (say 6 am to 4:30 pm with 30 min lunch). Person B will use Join Production to jump into the Shop Order too, say for 6 hours (say 8 am to 2:30 pm with 30 min lunch), and then Leave Production once they are ready to go back to their normal work area. Now, IFS will record all 16 Labor hours, but only 10 Machine hours are reported. As far as I can see, it is because when Person B joins production, the Machine Time is already being reported. Now, our Remaining Machine Time is out of alignment with Remaining Labor Time and is overstated by 6 hours, throwing your Visualizer off when scheduling.
What would be the best way to handle this? Moving people around throughout the day to keep them busy if an area gets interrupted is very normal. But, it is throwing the numbers off. Right now, I am having to find the big discrepancies and do a manual reporting of Machine Time just to get us back in alignment.
Thoughts?