Ticomix, Inc.

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Unity Shop Floor Module

The Shop Floor Module integrates tightly with the TIW ALERE Manufacturing system (formerly WorkShop Factory Management System).  It utilizes the External Posting features of the ALERE Manufacturing Order module to import transaction data to TIW.  This is a great way to collect both labor and material transactions for ALERE Manufacturing.  The Shop Floor module handles all of the native ALERE Manufacturing transactions. Additionally, the Shop Floor module can be configured to run as a stand alone shop floor data collection system.

New to Version 7.4

• Scrap Reason Codes provide improved information about scrap transaction. The reason code database provides a list of codes with a full description to explain why the product was scrapped. The scrap reason codes enhances the MS (material scrap) transactions by adding the extra functionality of knowing why the material was scrapped.
• Preview External Post Report, improved employee search.
• Material Scrap Report has been expanded to include filter by scrap reason code and to display the reason description.

Software Features

• Validates All Imported Data against TIW WorkShop data and accounting system data when linked as well as validating against it's own internal database tables.
• Matches Clock In's and Clock Out's.
• Links to TIW Workshop Factory Management System (32 or 16 bit version), Creating an External Posting File.  Or, Shop Floor can be configured to run stand-alone without being linked to TIW ALERE Manufacutring.  Provides support for ALERE Manufacturing linked to ALERE Accounting, Sage (formerly ACCPAC) Pro Series, Sage Vision Point, AccountMate VAM/LAN, AccountMate VAM/SQL, or stand alone.
• Work Order Screen for quick inquiries to view transactions that have been posted and that have not yet posted to a particular work order. Transactions can also be added or edited from this screen.  The drill down features take the user to the preview external post or transaction history screen with a simple double click on any transaction in the posted or un-posted transactions grids.  The Work Order Inquiry screen also allows for adding work orders to a table when Unity is not linked to TIW WorkShop.  A print button provides quick printing of the selected work order.  From the work order screen, the user can view raw material items on a work order, or the user can add raw material items when not linked to a manufacturing software system.  It shows the work order priority, projected quantity, and finished quantity.  The work order copy function provides a quick and easy way to reproduce work orders when running Shop Floor stand-alone.  Additionally, for users running Shop floor in the stand-alone configuration can add and change remarks and instructions as well as tracking standard setup and cycle times for each route step. 
• Item Master File screen allows for viewing the item master file from the linked accounting/manufacturing system.  Or, it can be used for adding/editing items when Shop Floor is not linked to another inventory system.
• Drill-down features in the work order inquiry screen hyper-links that screen to the preview external post screen and transaction history screen.  This allows users to drill-down and edit an individual transaction from the work order inquiry screen. 
• Employee Table is combined with Time and Inventory module for single point of data entry.  Standard labor rates for labor transactions can be set up here as well as categorizing employees by organizational levels.  If linked to TIW WorkShop and the Cost module is not used, the employee table can still populate labor transactions with the appropriate labor rates.  Organizational Levels can be used to specify the employee's department, supervisor, group, cell, shift, etc. Employee Status field provides the Unity user with the ability to signify whether an employee is active or inactive.  Inactive employee's are prevented from posting transactions in from RTP, Pocket Terminal, or Terminal Emulation.
• Maximum Time on job feature for each employee.  This setting specifies the maximum time an employee can work on a single labor transaction.   
• Standard or Actual Labor Rates can be used.
• Split Time on Overlapping Labor.  The “Split Time on Overlapping Labor” feature will optionally divide the time between multiple work orders/operations when an employee is clocked into more than one operation at a time. This Split Time feature works with any labor transaction (transaction codes that begin with “L”). It will adjust the time based on the number of concurrent jobs and then divide the time evenly between those concurrent jobs.
• Multi-Company Support.
• Data Collection Hardware Support.  Unity software works with Videx LaserLite Pro™ portable data collection units or can be configured to work with other hardware/software such as the Unity RTP or RTPe module.  Twelve different applications are included for the Videx LaserLite Pro™.
• Material Issue On Hand Check.  If the item is not found at the given location it will try to find an alternate location.
• Auto OS Transaction.  OS transactions are automatically issued when another transaction is issued and the OS has not already been issued.
• OS and OC transactions reference the employee badge number when posted to TIW WorkShop.
• Work Order Report includes bar-codes.
• Employee Performance Report compares actual employee performance to the standards established in the TIW WorkShop Route module or to Unity's own work order detail file when not linked to WorkShop.  It can be run for cycle or setup times.  The employee performance report allows the user to look at the employee performance on one particular work order, a range of work orders, or all orders.  You can even group by work order to see combined performance on specific work orders.  As well as filtering by finished good item number to see performance on a particular manufactured item over a period of time.  This feature gives the user an easier way to gauge the validity of standard setup and cycle times which have been established.  
• Employee Badge Report  with search options for employee look-ups prints employee badges complete with bar codes.  The multiple employee select option allows the user to pick and choose which employees they wish to print badges for.
• Preview External Post Report prints raw imported data and can be used for error checking.  The report includes an option to print all of the material detail information, including location, lot #, serial # and cab be ordered by employee or work order number.  The results can be filtered by such things as work center, employee, and work order number.
• External Post Report shows transactions for posting and can optionally be grouped by either work order #, employee, or none.  Work Order # grouping sorts and groups data by work order number and then sorts by date and time.  The employee group option, first groups data by employee and then sorts by date/time.  With "none" selected for grouping, it prints all transactions in date/time order regardless of work order number or employee.  
• Transaction History Report which can be run by Employee in either summary or detail format.  The history report has  many filter options including a filter by transaction code and/or finished good part number.
• Consolidated Transactions Report shows both posted and unposted transactions.
• Work Order Summary Report shows a brief summary of work order information.  In addition to basic work order information such as finished good item number, need by date, and order quantity; the report also shows the number of pieces that have been completed.  
• Material Scrap Report shows scrap transactions and can be sorted by user-defined scrap code.  This report also prints the scrap reason description (based on the user-defined scrap reason codes).
• Validate IP Quantities, users can optionally verify that IP (In Process) transactions do not exceed the projected finish quantity of the original work order.  The IP transaction is used to record the quantity produced by a given employee on a single operation of a work order.
• Pop-Up Calendar feature for all date entry fields.
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 is the powerful database and OOP (object oriented programming) language which powers Unity.
• Customizable, source code included
• User Level Security
• Labor Rate Security Option for the employees labor rate provides for protecting the employees rate field by user.

Technical Support

Free standard e-mail and telephone support plan included with purchase.  Standard support plan offers you 6 months or 90 minutes of technical support via telephone, fax or e-mail  For Tech Support send e-mail to support@unitydc.com

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