Shop Floor Mobile in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central lets your production workers register their work directly from a mobile device on the shop floor. You use it to register material consumption, production time, and operation start and stop, instead of relying on paper or a fixed workstation.
The solution has two main parts. The mobile registration flow handles the actual registrations your operators make during production. The Shop Floor Overview page gives the user a single place to see status across operations, capacity load, and operation lines.
Production time registration in Shop Floor Mobile is done manually. The My Operations area is where you use the start and stop functionality to track work as it happens.
What Shop Floor Mobile does
Shop Floor Mobile gives your production workers a way to register work directly from a mobile device on the floor. Before you set it up, it helps to understand why you would use it and what problems it solves. The main purpose is to capture what happens in production at the source, so the registrations are accurate and made by the people doing the work.
Registration flows for production
The core of Shop Floor Mobile is the mobile registration flow for production. This is where operators record what they do during a production order. The flow is broken down into a few distinct areas.
The first area covers materials. Here your workers register the material consumption tied to the production order.
The next area covers production time. This is the manual time registration, where the operator enters the time spent on the work.
The My Operations area is where you use the start and stop functionality. This lets the operator start an operation, work on it, and stop it again, so the time and status are captured as the work happens.
There is also a section for additional flows that cover the remaining registration scenarios beyond materials, time, and operations.
The Shop Floor Overview page
The Shop Floor Overview page is the page that gives the user an overview of what is going on. It pulls together the relevant information so the user can see status in one place.
The page is built from several parts. The header holds the general functionality and gives the overall context for the view.
Below the header you find the operation lines, which show the individual operations and their functionality.
The page also includes capacity load lines. These are part of the overview and let you see how capacity is loaded against the work being done.
Q&A
What can you register with Shop Floor Mobile?
You can register material consumption, production time, and operation start and stop directly from a mobile device on the shop floor.
Is production time registration in Shop Floor Mobile automatic or manual?
Production time registration is manual. The operator enters the time spent on the work.
What does the Shop Floor Overview page show?
It gives the user an overview in one place, with a header for general functionality, operation lines, and capacity load lines that show how capacity is loaded.
Where do you start and stop an operation?
You use the start and stop functionality in the My Operations area of the mobile registration flow.