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Daily Time Report for Payroll Administrator
Shop Floor Insight includes an Excel friendly daily/weekly time summary report to help payroll administrators using employee groups. This report complements the existing Bi-Weekly and Semi-Monthly reports.
Shift Scheduling with Shop Floor Insight
Shop Floor Insight gives users the ability to schedule recurring shift patterns. Recurring patterns are quickly and easily configured with the shift schedule configuration list and can be applied to groups of employees and individual employees.
Routing Step with Shop Floor Insight
Shop Floor Insight can automatically change the status of a routing step to “In Progress” when a machine operator starts recording time against a production order.
Color Coding Time Cards
Color-coded visual cues are a great way to help identify which time card lines are open (not yet clocked off), as well as whether the setup time or runtime has been clocked-in. Check out how Shop Floor Insight makes time card management easier.
Production Order Assignment with Shop Floor Insight
Shop Floor Insight enables users to assign production orders to Shop Floor employees. Dispatch lists can then be filtered in a number of different ways to show specific production orders.
Streamline Processes with Work Instructions
With Shop Floor Insight work instructions can be displayed on the production order, including comments specific to an operation on the production order.
Cleaning up Barcodes in Business Central
Barcode entries are a fast and effective way of embedding multiple pieces of information into a single, small, barcode. Barcode entries are used to hold mapping for people, production orders, jobs, and more. Over time these entries can grow in volume, especially on installs that have a very high throughput of barcodes, and generally need cleanup to keep scanning speed fast.
Configurable Business Central Payroll Export for ADP and other Payroll Solutions
Shop Floor Insight has supported configurable CSV exports to popular Payroll Systems such as ADP, Ceridian, Serenic and countless others. These exports are often tweaked to meet site-specific requirements or custom formats.
Production Dispatch Lists that Boost Efficiency
Production dispatch lists are used as a primary means of clocking onto production orders or viewing outstanding work. When there are hundreds of rows displayed it can be difficult to identify specific items. Shop Floor Insight streamlines processes by only displaying the list of production orders that are relevant.
How to use the Shop Floor Production Order job report as your default production order job card report
Shop Floor Insight supplies an example Production Order Job Card report that supplies barcodes that can be used for collecting manufacturing time.  These steps describe how to configure Business Central to use this sample report.
How to Print Barcodes for Job Tasks in Shop Floor Insight
Shop Floor Insight provides users with the ability to print barcodes associated with specific job tasks. This article will explain the steps required to print these barcodes.
How to automatically round time card line entries
There is a new feature in version 7.5 of the Shop Floor Insight extension which replaces the “Round Time as Time is entered” setting in previous versions. This new feature is called the “Shop Floor Line Rounding Rules” list.
How to Print Barcodes for Production Order Operations
These barcodes for the production order operations can be printed by searching for “Shop Floor Production Order” report.
How to record a quality inspection when output data is captured
It is possible to configure Shop Floor Insight in such a way that whenever a user captures output, he can automatically record a quality inspection at the same time.
How to display the Shop Floor Insight Approver role in the "Explore All" page
Version 15 of Business Central has a new “Role Explorer” page which allows users to quickly see an overview of all the lists and features available for the selected role (these are also referred to as “profiles”).
Shop Floor employees are having their shifts end prematurely
This document describes how to address a situation where some shop floor employees “lose” their time cards when these employees go to log off their shift.
How to record a quality inspection when a scheduler item is moved
It is possible to configure Shop Floor Insight to record a quality inspection directly from the Shop Floor Insight application when a production order routing line is modified in the production schedule of the Shop Floor Insight application.
How to ensure supervisors only see time cards of their workers for approval
As shop employees use the Shop Floor Insight application, time cards will be created. Before these can be posted, someone needs to approve the time cards.
Fix a "Company not licensed" error message in Shop Floor Insight
This document explains what to do whenever a user gets a “Company Not Licensed” error message in Shop Floor Insight.
Adding a New Employee & Printing a Barcoded Badge
Learn how to add a new employee to Shop Floor Insight and then print a barcoded badge that can be used to log into the application.
Filtering Production Orders on the Dispatch List in Shop Floor Insight
Learn how to filter production orders in Shop Floor Insight.
How to Record Consumption
Learn how to record consumption using Shop Floor Insight.
How to Record Output
In this video you'll learn how to record output using Shop Floor Insight.
The Supervisor / Employee Relationship
In this video, we'll demonstrate how to create a relationship between supervisors and employees.
Using Links in Shop Floor Insight
In this video, we'll demonstrate how to use links within Shop Floor Insight to access documents, drawings, websites and other items.
Client Configuration Cards
In this video, we'll demonstrate how to use the client configuration cards in Shop Floor Insight.
Shop Floor Activities
In this video, we'll demonstrate how use and configure the available shop floor activities in Shop Floor Insight.
Line Coloring
In this video, we'll demonstrate how use colors to identify the status of jobs within Shop Floor Insight.
How to Record a Comment
In this video, we'll demonstrate how to record a comment in Shop Floor Insight.
Printing a Production Order Job Card
In this video, we'll demonstrate how to print a production order job card.
Quality Inspections when Recording Output
In this video, we'll demonstrate how to work with quality inspection feature of Shop Floor Insight when recording output.
Changing the Work or Machine Center by Scanning a Barcode
In this video, we will look at how shop floor workers can change the work center or machine center by simply scanning a barcode.
Dispatch List Filtering
In this video, we'll demonstrate how to work with dispatch list filtering using a simple floor layout example.
Automatically Assign Work and Machine Centers
In this video, we'll demonstrate how to automatically assign work and machine centers using Shop Floor Insight.
Time Card Line Rounding for Job Tasks
In this video, we'll demonstrate how to configure the time card line rounding for job tasks.
Line Rounding of First Time Card Line
In this video, we'll demonstrate how to configure line rounding of the first time card line.
Time Card Approval Process and Worksheet
In this video, we will look at the time card approval process and specifically the time card worksheet.
Include Other Paycodes for Overtime Calculations
Watch this video to learn how to use other paycodes when calculating overtime using Shop Floor Insight.
Automatic Filler Time Functionality
Learn about the automatic filler time functionality in Shop Floor Insight.
Time Card Line Rounding for Shift Breaks
Learn how to perform time card line rounding for shift breaks in Shop Floor Insight.
Output to License Plate with Shop Floor Insight
Production Order Analysis, Investigation, and Reporting Options in Business Central
View Unposted Shop Floor Time from a Released Production Order
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