Shop Floor Terminal
A full-screen tablet screen for operators.
Early access. Manufacturing can be installed from the App Store, but it is still being proven in real use, so this screen may change.
Overview
The shop-floor terminal is a separate, full-screen view outside the normal ERP layout, built for a tablet at a station. The work queue puts the next job on top (running first, then paused, ready and waiting), can show only your jobs or everyone’s, remembers the station (work centre) on the tablet, and lets you scan a job card or order code to jump to it.
The job screen has one big action for the current state: Start, Pause, Resume, Report output and Finish. Output is entered on a number pad for good, rejected, scrap and rework, with machine-stopped minutes and a reason. Safety, PPE, instructions, tools, materials and history are shown with the job. When the network drops, actions are queued on the tablet and sent in order with an idempotency key; refused ones are listed for a supervisor under “Needs a supervisor”. The screen is available in English and Swahili.
Not built yet: badge or PIN sign-in, scanning items and batches for consumption, andon calls and machine readings.
When to use shop floor terminal
- Operators report work from the shop floor.
- A supervisor handles actions that were refused after an offline period.
Step by step
Screenshot for this step has not been captured yet — run npm run docs:flow.
What you see on the screen
- The screen says: “New jobs appear here when a production order is released.”
- Actions on the screen: EN, SW, Camera, Mine, Everyone.
Permissions
These permission keys control access (granted to roles in Administration → Roles & Permissions):
- manufacturing.shopfloor.supervise
- manufacturing.shopfloor.use