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View a Job Card

The Job Cards screen is where the shop floor lives. It lists the work each part of the plant still has to do, lets you open any single card to read exactly what to make, and gives you the sheet to print and hand to the operator at the machine.

You never create a card here — every one is generated from a work order and its steps. This screen is for finding, reading and printing them.

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Open the list​

From the left sidebar, open Production and choose Job Cards. The list shows the cards for the work your unit is making, with the essentials at a glance:

  • The card reference — the work order number with the step it belongs to.
  • The product and batch being made.
  • The step this card is for, and the department whose queue it sits in.
  • The status — to do, in progress, waiting for a check, done or skipped.

Choose which cards you're looking at​

A card is useful at two very different moments, so the list can show you either:

  1. The work still to do — the queue of steps your unit hasn't started or finished yet. This is the everyday shop-floor view: what to hand out next.
  2. The work already done — the record of steps that have been completed and booked, for looking back at what was made and when.

There's also a short list of jobs that have stopped for a quality check — a step that's finished and booked but is waiting to be signed off before the job can move on. It's kept separate so a stopped job never quietly disappears between "to do" and "done".

Filter to what you need​

You rarely want every card at once. Narrow the list to the cards that matter right now:

  • By work order — show only the cards for one job, to see everything that one batch has to go through.
  • By department — show only one team's queue, so a supervisor sees just their own work.
  • By floor — show only the cards for one location, when a plant runs work in more than one place.
  • My work — show only the cards for the work orders you're responsible for. If nothing is assigned to you, this shows an empty list rather than everyone's work.
  • By status — for the "to do" queue, narrow to the steps that are waiting versus the ones already in progress.
  • By date and shift — for the "already done" record, look back at what was made on a particular day or shift.

Search for a card​

If you already know roughly what you're after, search instead of scrolling. You can find a card by:

  • Its reference — the work order number and step.
  • The step name — for example, "Assembly".
  • The work order number.
  • The item — what the step is making. This is how the floor usually looks: an operator remembers they were running brackets, not a reference number.

Open a single job card​

Click any row to open that card in full. This is the sheet the operator works from, and it lays out everything one step needs:

What the card shows​

  • The product and batch — what the whole job is making, and how much.
  • The step — which operation this card is for, and where it falls in the sequence.
  • The materials — what to draw and what the step should produce, with quantities.
  • The resource — the machine, person, workstation or tool the step runs on.
  • The department and floor — whose queue it belongs in, and the location its stock comes from and goes back to.
  • The planned window — when the plant is committed to running it, if it's been scheduled.
  • Who's responsible — the supervisor answering for the job.

Planned versus actual​

On a card for a step that hasn't run yet, the quantities are the planned figures — what the route asks the operator to draw and make. Once the step is done and booked, the same card shows what was actually made and used, so it reads as the record of the work as well as the instruction for it.

Once you've opened the right card, hand it to the floor:

  1. Print the card and give the paper copy to the operator at the machine, or
  2. Open it on a tablet at the workstation so the operator reads it on screen.

Either way, the operator has the whole step on one page — what to make, how much, and what to pull from the store — without leaving the machine to check.

Common questions​

A finished step isn't in the "to do" list or clearly in "done" — where is it? It's probably waiting for a quality check. A step that's finished and booked but not yet signed off sits in the list of jobs stopped for a check, so it stays visible until someone clears it.

"My work" is empty — is something wrong? No. It shows only the cards for work orders assigned to you. If nothing is assigned to you yet, it's meant to be empty rather than show everyone's work. Ask whoever raises the work orders to set you as responsible.

I searched for a step but nothing came up. Try the item you were making, or the work order number. The floor usually finds a card fastest by the item — for example "brackets" — rather than by its reference.

Where do I actually draw the materials the card lists? As the operator works the step. Those draws are recorded as material movements — see Material Issue.

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