Work orders without paper and without retyping.

Solution 05 · Production module

The order sits on the screen at the line, with the right settings alongside it. What the operator registers lands in your system straight away.

Start with one order type How it works

What changes

Register once, at the line.

Today

A work order travels from desk to folder to Excel.
In the evening somebody types it all in again.
Settings and recipes live in one person's head.

With AIONIX

The operator sees their order, settings and counts on the screen.
Registration happens at the line, once, while the work is being done.
Your report is ready at the end of the shift.

In the portal

This is how it looks in the AIONIX portal.

portaal.aionix.be/production/work-orders

AIONIX portal, work orders with product, quantity, line and status

Orders from your ERPProduct, quantity and line, pulled in automatically.

Schedule and deadlinePlanned start and delivery time per order.

Status from the lineThe operator signs off, you see it immediately.

How it works

Pull in, execute, report back.

Step 01

Pull in

Orders arrive automatically from your ERP at the right machine, with settings and quantities.

Step 02

Execute

The operator starts, registers and signs off on the screen. Paper is no longer needed.

Step 03

Report back

Parts made, hours and scrap go back to your ERP. Nobody retypes anything.

The lifecycle

The states a work order moves through.

A digital work order is not a sheet on a screen. It is an order with a state, and that state is what keeps the floor and the office looking at the same thing.

1
Received
The production order arrives from the ERP. What has to be made and how many, with no machine or moment yet.
2
Scheduled
The order gets a line and a place in the sequence. From here the floor knows what is coming.
3
Started
The operator starts the order on the screen at the line. Time recording runs from that moment, not from filling in a sheet afterwards.
4
Interrupted
Downtime, a changeover, or another order taking priority. With a reason attached, because an interruption without one is a hole in your figures.
5
Reported complete
Good count, reject count, and the time it actually took.
6
Reported back to the ERP
The quantities go back to the order in the ERP. Nobody retypes anything.

Work that is not on an order, helping out or a repair, is registered as indirect time with a reason. Hide it inside the order and that order looks more expensive than it was.

Who works with it

The same work order, four different screens.

Operator

Sees the order on screen

What, how many and on which machine. Reporting it complete happens in the same place.

Shift lead

Divides the work

Which order sits where, and what has not started yet. Without walking the lines.

Production manager

Follows the status live

No more round of asking how far along something is. The progress is on the screen.

Administration

Retypes nothing

The quantities the floor registers go back to the ERP instead of via a sheet.

What customers ask first

Five questions about digital work orders.

Does the work order come from our ERP?

Yes, that is the intent. The ERP decides what has to be made and holds the order; we take that production order and turn it into execution on the floor. The quantities and the time the floor registers go back. Your ERP stays in charge of the order itself.

What if there is no screen at the machine?

Then one goes up. Usually an affordable touchscreen per line, not a pc per operator. Where that really is not possible, the shift lead registers for the line. That is less fine-grained, but it stays digital.

Can an operator deviate from the order?

Yes, and that matters more than it sounds. A system that makes deviating impossible gets worked around on paper. They can produce less, give a reason, or interrupt the order. Whatever they do is recorded.

What about work that is not on an order?

It exists on every floor: helping out on another line, a changeover that runs long, a repair. You register it as indirect time with a reason, so it stays out of the order cost but still becomes visible. Hide it inside the order and that order looks more expensive than it was.

Does the paper disappear completely?

On the floor yes, but not everywhere at once. We usually start on one line and run it alongside the paper for a while so you can compare. If it holds up, the paper goes on that line, and only then on the next.

How it connects

What digital work orders gain from the rest.

Work orders are where the floor enters data. Because that happens on the MOM platform's data layer, the same entry is immediately useful to the other modules.

Production monitoring

A closed work order tells you the job is done. Add production and you also see how it went: pace, stops, and where the time disappeared.

Quality

The check belongs on the work order, not on a second sheet. Together the operator registers once and the measurement is already attached to the right order.

Traceability

What gets registered here is exactly what you need three years later. Entered digitally means findable, instead of archive work.

To see work orders carry the right settings automatically, read how Depro Profiles manages its recipes centrally. Why execution does not belong in your ERP is covered in ERP vs. MES.

For manufacturers in West Flanders

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