Activating jobs
What does it mean to activate a job?
Activate a job to signal to Matics to begin monitoring and recording production activity. The system uses sensors and other methods to measure and record machine activity. Production rate and other metrics and KPIs are calculated based on the targets defined as the Set Points in the Job Recipe.
By standard procedure, a job is activated on the production floor by an operator using the Operator App.
Planners can activate a job using Matics Web, when necessary.
There are several ways to activate a job via Matics Web:
Option 1
Navigate to a job: from the sidebar menu, select Jobs > Jobs Report and click Search to pull the full catalog from the database. You can enter your query/queries to expedite the process.
You can filter and sort through the table to find the relevant job faster. Click the Index Number of the Job to open its record.In the job record, click the flash lightening icon to open the Actions Menu.
Select the option Activate Job and confirm your selection in the confirmation pop-up.
Option 2
Navigate directly to a Job Life Cycle Tree (see animation below).
Click on a node to open the actions menu.
Choose Activate Job and confirm that you want to activate the job.
Additional Options
If the job is part of an order, you can activate it directly from the Order Line Tree.
Removing an active job from the machine
By standard procedure, a job is deactivated when it's replaced by another job. When operators activate a job, it automatically 'bumps off' the previous job. The previous job will be marked as complete or suspended--depending on whether it completed its production target or not.
Status 20 - Complete
By default, a job is considered complete if it fulfilled 95% of its target production. (See Minimum threshold for job completion to learn how to adjust this default.)
Status 11 - Suspended
By default, a job that hasn't fulfilled its production targets is automatically suspended and resent to the Job Queue to be completed at a later time.