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Shop Floor Workbench: Splitting time on 2 operations, same SO.

  • March 19, 2026
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Do Gooder (Customer)
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  • Joymf
  • Do Gooder (Customer)

We have a scenario where employees will work on two operations which are on the same Shop Order, at the same time.  We would like the time split either in half or split based on operations run time Units/Hr of each operation.

It does not matter if they Select both Operations, then Start Prod and when completed, Select both Operations, then Stop Production/Approve, it still reports the same amount of time on both Operations, doubling the time.  

Example:  Employee works 2 hours to do both operations, simultaneously.  The results are each operations shows 2 hours of labor time for both operations, but it should be 1 hour labor time for each.

Is there somehow that we can set up the Operation, Work Center, etc to make this happen?

We are on 24R1

TYIA,

Joy

 

 

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Lakshan Thiranagama
Hero (Former Employee)
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Hello Joy,

Any reason for not splitting the labor run factor when you are splitting the operation? As you describes it should be actually half of the time that you have given in the system. 

When the time is not split, even though you are performing the two operations in parallel still they are two operations in the system so ideally the result you got as 2 hours is functionally correct.

However if your requirement is to reduce the man hours to half, you can change the crew size of the each operation to a decimal value and then check the labor hours utilization. In your case you can set as 0.5 crew size for first operation and 0.5 crew size for second operation. Then the man hours become half of the exact labor hours requirement since then it is working as labor resource share as you do in machine resource share column in Shop order operation. This approach is just a solution for your concern. The correct approach is modifying the labor run factors based on the actual business scenario.

Thanks!

Lakshan

 

Lakshan Thiranagama
    Björn Hultgren
    Hero (Employee)
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    If one employee clocks on two operations at the same time. The time and cost is always split.

    But as pointed out by Lakshan above, the Labor Time value is representing the duration the employee worked on the operation. Which may be 2 hours on both operations if they were worked on in parallel. However, then the Crew Size is divided between the two operations. Say 0.5 for each operation. The the Man Hours are calculated for each operation as Labor Time * Crew Size. And the cost is based on this value.

    Please see further explanations below:

    Employee works on multiple Shop Orders (same WC) how to Split time | IFS Community

    Shop Floor Reporting (SFWB) Split time charging between multiple Ops on different SOs | IFS Community

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