Shop
Floor Data Capture or Job Costing
Proteus
is one of the few clocking in systems on the
market which offers a Shop Floor Data Capture
(SFDC) solution as a compliment to its Time
and Attendance software. Often referred to
as job Costing this is a slight misnomer as
Proteus collects information from the shop
floor, saves it and presents it in various
outputs and mediums for analysis, rarely does
this involve the actual costing of jobs. The
software has the capacity to extract up to
ten pieces of information from each employee,
this can be done when clocking on or off the
job or a combination of both. Most common
requirements are: Job Number, Operation, Cost
Centre, Quantity Produced/Scrapped etc. These
pieces of information can be entered into
Proteus via the clocking point keypad or a
bar code scanner, or the terminal can take
a reading from a machine or another device
(e.g. thermometer, mains meter etc.). Once
the data has been captured, Proteus stores
the employees swipe along with the data forever.
There are a number of standard reports or
bespoke reports can be written to present
the data how you need it. A popular requirement
over the past few years is for the data to
be exported into more complex management and
costing software to provide a more detailed
analysis of your companies workings.
How
Proteus Collects Data
The
most popular configuration is for each employees
to have a T&A badge and a separate Data
Capture (DC) badge. Having clocked "in"
in the morning the employee then uses his
DC card to log onto a job. Depending on how
the system is configured he will be prompted
for certain information e.g. Job Number and
Operation. He may type the job number in at
the keypad or scan it in from a job sheet
barcode, then enter the operation he is working
on likewise. Having logged on the job the
employee proceeds to do his work. When he
is finished he simply swipes his DC card through
the terminal to log off the job. He continues
doing this throughout the day to build up
a time sheet profile of his working day. At
the end of the day he clocks out with his
T&A card and goes home. You now have a
complete breakdown of his working day, showing
how many hours he has been at work for payroll
(T&A) purposes and how many hours he has
worked on jobs (billable hours).
It
is possible to generate reports to look at
individuals or groups of employees, showing
what jobs they worked on over any given time
period. Conversely you can look at individual
jobs and see how many hours have been worked
on it and by whom. You can instantly get breakdowns
of the number of hours worked on different
operations within a given job or any other
information that has been captured. Because
Proteus is a realtime system you will have
completely up to date information on your
company's workings at your fingertips.
In
order to use Shop Floor Data Capture you will
need Proteus
System
See
Sample Data Capture Reports Here
