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What it does

Job tracking, shop-floor time and tool-cupboard stock for engineering workshops — one system for the office and the floor.

  1. 01

    Job tracking and Job Control

    One place to move a job, one correct next step at a time.

    • Validated unique job numbers, priority P1 / P2 / P3 (P1 requires a reason), expected, received and required-by dates, and an ordered production route.
    • Lifecycle EXPECTED → RECEIVED → PLANNING → IN PRODUCTION → COMPLETED, with ON HOLD and CANCELLED; a job can be captured while it is still on the way.
    • Job Control computes the single next step and refuses a stale page — there are no other movement endpoints.
    • Audited exceptions on the same panel: priority change, hold and resume, cancel, and closing a job with unfinished operations only with a recorded override reason.
    • Every job page shows the route, live tooling usage from the ledger and an activity feed derived from the audit trail.
  2. 02

    Planning, allocation and authorisation

    Only authorised, available people on available machines — enforced by the database, not the dropdown.

    • Planning board with per-machine queues; drag-and-drop posts to the same endpoint as the buttons and never moves a job between statuses.
    • Machine authorisation as a checkbox tree over workshop › area › machine, with AUTHORISED / TRAINING / SUSPENDED status and validity dates; grants are withdrawn, never deleted.
    • Person-only eligibility for fitting, inspection and fabrication stages — “no machine” never means “no person”.
    • Planned-time double-booking check (warn or refuse) and live single occupancy — one running operation per person and per machine — backed by database constraints.
    • “Who is doing what”: people at work right now, paused work and what it still holds, machines not running.
  3. 03

    Shop-floor time capture

    Who worked on what, when, and why it stopped — reproducible from the events.

    • Start, pause with reason, resume and complete from the station or from Job Control; every action is an append-only operation event.
    • Configurable pause reasons with a category, a time class (productive, operator waiting, machine downtime, non-productive) and what the pause frees.
    • Productive, waiting, machine-down and elapsed durations derived from the timeline; after-hours time against a configurable shift window.
    • Corrections always carry a note; the original row is never edited and the corrected sequence must still validate.
    • Machine status follows the work — AVAILABLE, RUNNING, OCCUPIED — while SETUP, MAINTENANCE, BREAKDOWN and OFFLINE are set by people.
  4. 04

    Tool Cupboard station

    Take, borrow and return tooling in a few taps, booked to a job — with no web login on the tablet.

    • A shared tablet is paired once with a one-time code; workers sign in from name tiles with a short cupboard password that opens nothing but the cupboard.
    • TAKE consumables through Category → Family → Variant picture tiles with “recently used” and “often used by you” strips, a basket, BOOK TO, REVIEW and CONFIRM.
    • BORROW a special tool and RETURN it later from MY TOOLS; custody starts and ends on the ledger and is capped at what the worker actually holds.
    • RETURN UNUSED puts usable consumables back against the original issue; RETURN DAMAGED records a broken consumable with no stock change.
    • Unknown booking references are refused or recorded exactly as typed for the foreman to reconcile, by policy.
  5. 05

    Stock ledger, locations and custody

    One append-only ledger; stock never silently negative; mistakes corrected, never rewritten.

    • Receive, issue, return, damaged, scrap, adjustment, reversal, transfer and stocktake movements — every one written through a single path that locks the item, checks the balance and writes the audit event in one transaction.
    • Per-location balances over a Shop › Storage area › Section tree; “held at” on every list and export.
    • Source-first bulk transfers with an all-or-nothing confirm; reverse or correct a wrong book-out in one audited, cross-referenced step.
    • Item behaviour — consumable, reusable tool, general — snapshotted onto every ledger row, so reclassifying later never changes what already happened.
    • Low-stock signalling on the dashboard, Stock Overview and a Low Stock page.
  6. 06

    Stocktake

    A count is evidence; only an approved adjustment moves stock.

    • Numbered sessions with a scope (whole location, one category or selected items), blind or guided, DRAFT → COUNTING → REVIEW → CLOSED.
    • Starting a count snapshots expected quantities and locks those items at that location against every other movement, whichever screen tries it.
    • Count sheets save many lines in one request with per-row version checks; each count is an append-only evidence row.
    • Review flags surplus, shortage, custody and not-counted lines; recounts, custody reconciliation and findings are separate actions.
    • Count, review and approve are three separate capabilities; summary and variance reports export to Excel or CSV.
  7. 07

    Tooling administration

    Shape the tooling catalogue without a developer — and never move stock by accident.

    • Category tree of any depth with per-category behaviour, pack size, minimum and target.
    • Tool types with attribute templates; product families whose variants inherit defaults until overridden.
    • Derived stock codes with a live duplicate check; merge two products through the ledger; delete only what nothing has ever used.
    • Manufacturers (with aliases) kept distinct from suppliers (SKU, pack quantity, lead time, latest cost); replacement mapping and compatibility held as data.
    • Quick Add at the shelf: WHERE → SEARCH → EXISTING or NEW → COUNT / RECEIVE, with supported manufacturers’ catalogues searched from what is printed on the box.
  8. 08

    Dashboards, TV board and exports

    The shop’s state on a wall or a desk — the same numbers everywhere.

    • Foreman dashboard with a P1 attention area, overdue and due-today, machines running / available / occupied / down, and low stock; every card links to the rows it counted.
    • TV production board that auto-refreshes, shown by a display account carrying no restricted data; priority always shown as text, never colour alone.
    • Every data table exports to Excel or CSV with the same filters and sort, so the figure on screen equals the figure in the workbook.
    • Performance screens per employee and per machine: planned versus actual, productive / waiting / down split, delay reasons and tooling counts.
    • More than 160 permanent error codes, a unique incident reference on every refusal, and a one-tap report-a-problem with screenshot from every screen.

Step by step

A job from arrival to completion

6 steps

  1. 01Create

    Engineering captures number, description, customer, priority and route — as Expected if it is still on the way.

  2. 02Receive

    When the work arrives the foreman presses the single action on Job Control.

  3. 03Allocate

    Only authorised, available operators are offered for the machine; planned times are checked for double-booking.

  4. 04Start

    The job goes In Production, the machine shows Running, a START event is written.

  5. 05Pause · resume

    The machinist pauses with a reason; the timeline records what the pause freed and for how long.

  6. 06Complete

    Completing a stage releases the machine and makes the next route step Waiting; after the last stage the foreman completes the job.

Taking consumables at the Tool Cupboard

5 steps

  1. 01Who are you?

    Tap your tile and type your cupboard password.

  2. 02Take

    Category → Family → Variant picture tiles, or search; tiles build the basket.

  3. 03Book to

    One of your recent jobs, a current job, a standing code — or type a job number.

  4. 04Review · confirm

    Every line and “Booked to …”; CONFIRM writes all lines or none.

  5. 05Done

    ISSUED with the count; the station returns to the sign-in screen by itself.

Running a stocktake

5 steps

  1. 01Scope

    Choose the location, whole or by category or items, blind or guided.

  2. 02Lock

    Expected quantities are snapshotted; the items are locked against other movements and tiles show “Being counted”.

  3. 03Count

    Type quantities line by line; save all counts in one request.

  4. 04Review

    Accept matches, request recounts, reconcile custody, note variances.

  5. 05Approve

    Post variances to the ledger — the one write that moves stock — then close.

Who sees what

Role
  • ForemanBoth dashboards, jobs and priorities, planning, allocation, hold / resume / complete, all stock functions, stocktake approval, tooling administration, reports, audit trail, employees and settings.
  • SupervisorForeman dashboard, planning and allocation, start and complete stages, hold jobs, issue and return at the station, stocktake count and review, booking-reference reconciliation.
  • EngineerEngineering dashboard, create and edit jobs, view any job’s routing, progress, tooling usage and timeline; cannot change stock or see cost data.
  • MachinistThe Tool Cupboard station and kiosk only: your work, start / pause / resume / complete, take and return tooling, the TV board.
  • System OwnerAn additive flag, never a hard-coded person: company profile, branding, terminology, modules, policies, stations and device pairing, configuration audit.

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