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In 24.05 release, SAP introduced new SAP Digital Manufacturing POD plugin Production time on / Production time off which refers to the duration during which a resource is actively engaged in producing a material, not including any idle time.
In this blog post, I will show you how to configure and use Labor & Machine time parallelly within SAP Digital Manufacturing.
Configure
To get started, in Manage Business Settings app, you need to enable Allow operator to track labor on Inactive SFC’s and Enable auto approval time records for Labor Tracking.
Next, you need to enable Report duration of Production time to ERP and Enable auto approval time records for Resource Time Tracking.
After configuring Manage Business Settings app, you need add Labor On / Labor Off plugins to your POD in POD Designer under Assign Actions button for an Action Button.
Labor On
Labor Off
As a next step, you need to add Production Time On / Production Time Off plugins to your POD in POD Designer under Assign Actions button for an Action Button.
Production Time On (Machine On)
Production Time Off (Machine Off)
Notice that, for both Labor On and Production Time On plugins, we have few flags and settings that can be adjusted i.e. for Labor On, Default Selection for Standard Value selected as Standard Value 3 and for Production Time On, Default Selection for Standard Value selected as Standard Value 2.
Use
Once all required configurations are in place, you can open your POD and try it out.
When an Operator starts work on a SFC, he will click Start button, then he will put Labor on the SFC using Labor On button. If he need to work on machine and record the machine time, he will click on Machine On button.
Start SFC
Labor On
Machine Start
All Time Tracking Records, for Labor and machine, can be seen in Manage Time Tracking app.
When an Operator completes his work on a SFC, he will click Machine Off button, then he will close Labor using Labor Off button. Lastly, he will Sign Off the SFC.
As a result of Auto Approve setting, time records will be auto approved and reported to ECC.
Conclusion
Production Time On/ Off capabilities were introduced to SAP Digital Manufacturing in 24.05 release, where operators can track time for Machine activities related to specific SFC along side the labor activities parallelly.
Please let me know in the comments section what you think. Any feedback is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Swanand Joshi
