Katana allows for detailed management of the production process through both manufacturing orders (MOs) and Production Operations, providing flexibility in tracking and analysis. This guide goes over setting operation statuses and monitoring actual production time, facilitating effective control and adjustments in manufacturing activities.
In Katana, you can manage your production tasks and production schedule at different levels of detail. You can track the production either on the manufacturing order (MO) level or related Production Operations level, the latter offering a more detailed approach.
Each MO and Production Operation has a status that can be changed directly in Katana or from the Shop Floor App. Statuses help to monitor and manage production activities and trigger relevant inventory movements.
Production Operations can be assigned to an Operator, enabling you to use the Shop Floor App to feed information directly from the shop floor to the main Katana web app and vice versa.
Katana enables you to track the actual time spent on production tasks, analyze planned vs actual time, and get accurate manufacturing costs based on actual time spent.
Managing production at different detail levels
Manufacturing order level
The status of the MO can be changed from the Schedule tab in the Make screen or on a MO card. Read more about managing Manufacturing order statuses.
Production Operations level
Track the production of each MO on a step-by-step operations level. To track operations, define the Production Operations for a product. Operation statuses can be changed on a MO card or in the Tasks tab of the Make screen. Read more about managing Production Operation statuses.
Task statuses can also be changed directly from the Shop Floor App.
Production Operation statuses and MO statuses are related so that a change to either status affects the other.
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