There are two ways a person on the floor gets access to Production Logs.

An operator with a company email is added as a user and signs in as themselves. An operator without a company email works through a kiosk, using an employee ID, which is added to a shared tablet provisioned for a facility and used by whoever is on the line.

Both are managed under Administration. This article covers operators. Kiosks are covered in Provisioning a Kiosk.

Words to Know

Term What it means
Operator A person who runs Sessions on a line and annotates stops.
Facility One plant. A facility contains many lines.
Employee ID The number that identifies an operator in your own records.
Kiosk A shared tablet provisioned for a facility, used by operators without an individual account.
Session A line operator starts a Session on a line in order to begin logging downtime reasons.

Which One to Use

Operator account Kiosk
Requires a company email Yes No
Signs in as Company Email Employee ID
Scoped to The facility assigned to them The facility it was provisioned for

The Operators Page

Open Administration and select Operators.

Screenshot: the Operators page under Administration, with the Add operator form above a facility's list of operators.

The page has two parts. The Add operator form sits at the top. Below it, every operator already in the system is listed, in one list for the facility.

Each row shows the operator's name, their employee ID, and a Remove button in the Actions column.

Adding an Operator

Fill in the three fields at the top of the page.

Name. The operator's full name, as it should appear in the list.

Employee ID. The number your facility already uses for that person.

Facility. The facility the operator works at, chosen from the dropdown.

Select Add operator. The operator is added to the card for that facility.

Screenshot: the Add operator form filled in with a name, an employee ID, and a facility selected.

An operator is added per facility, so the facility you select determines which lines they can open a Session on. An operator at one facility does not see production logs for another.

Removing an Operator

Find the operator in the list for their facility, then select Remove in the Actions column. The operator is removed as soon as the button is selected.

Screenshot: a facility's operator list, each row carrying a Remove button in the Actions column.

Removing an operator ends their access. It does not remove their past work. Sessions they ran, and the annotations they recorded, stay attached to the line and continue to appear in reporting.

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