M1's Shop Floor Entry will allow you to do much more in less time and provide a better service to your customers.

M1's Shop Floor Entry (Data Collection) module will bring a company a high return for its investment. With less input required than a manual system, it will provide accurate job costing, real time prioritizing, real time job status and collection of payroll hours.

The interface has been designed to be very simple and fast. The information is clear and precise, so an employee can perform their duties in a very efficient manner.

As an employee starts their next job they simply enter or scan the job traveller or select the next job for the real time priority queue.

When a customer calls, the real time information is at your finger tips. No longer do you have to place them on hold or call them back after you go out to the shop floor to locate the parts in question.

If you do proto-type work or jobs based on time and materials, them M1's Shop Floor Entry has the unique ability to build the bill of materials from the shop floor so it can be used to create a part master file or invoice a time and materials job.

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The ability for a company to have control of the shop floor, have accurate job costs and real time management allows time for strategic management and time to grow a business. M1 lets you have options on how labor and overhead are split per work centre and scrap and rework analysis is based on user defined reason codes.

Time is a commodity that is always in short supply, M1's Shop Floor Entry will allow you to do much more in less time and provide a better service to your customers.

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Hardware Options

PC Based where you can use the following input devices:
      1. Mouse/Keyboard.
      2. Bar Code scanner.
      3. Light-pen.
      4. Touch screen.

Symbol PPT8800 Series PDA

Job Instructions
Job instructions can be viewed for the operation, entire job and assembly.

Job Information
When an employee selects a job, information such as setup and quantity that remains is immediately visible.

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Job Documentation
Shop Floor Entry is integrated with Document Management, thus allowing all documentation to be viewed with the PC Based system.

Shop Floor Feedback
Employees can enter comments or provide feedback. Scrap/reject and rework codes provide vital information to management.

For Mobile Staff
Shop Floor Entry also runs on a Symbol PPT8800 series PDA for staff that are on the move.

See Who's Not Clocked In
The M1 Start Page provides you with the search to simply see who's not clocked in.

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Timecard Audit
This report provides important information of employee start/finish time, time booked to jobs and time booked to indirect labor.

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