Explore the comprehensive capabilities of Factbird for managing shift schedules.

Learn how to create, modify, and manage shift schedules for different lines within the Factbird system, ensuring optimal workforce allocation and operational efficiency.

Factbird makes it possible to schedule production shifts using the line scheduler.

Why use shifts?

Shifts are useful because it allows operators and managers to view progress during a shift using the shift dashboard:

Additionally, shifts can be used to filter data in the Analytics tab:

Or, to see the OEE of a single shift

How to schedule shifts

Each shift is a yellow block - an event in the scheduler below:

Access the scheduler

To access the scheduler, go to the line you want the shift on click “schedule located on the top menu:

Create and edit shifts

To create a new shift press on the time slot you want the shift to start:

Enter the name and set the time range for the shift:

To edit or delete an existing shift click it to show the delete and edit buttons

Changes can be saved in two ways:

• “Create a schedule only for this week” will only save the changes for the current week. This is useful when there are exceptions to the normal schedule
• “Start new schedule” will repeat the schedule every week going forward, thereby becoming a new standard schedule

Import schedules from other lines

If you have several lines that you want to run on the same schedule, you can use another line’s schedule as a template.

Press “Import schedule”:

Select the line you wish to use as a template.

Please note that future modifications to the referenced line (above ”New Demo Line”) will not automatically sync to lines that have used it as a template.

After pressing “import” the schedule will be saved as a new standard going forward, overwriting the existing schedule. Future changes made to the schedule will not affect the schedule that was used as a template. Similarly, no changes on the original schedule that was used as a template will affect the lines that have used it as a template.

Set weekly OEE targets

Weekly OEE targets can be set if necessary. These will be shown as targets in the OEE tab.

How to set up automatic stop registration

After you created your shifts, you might want to set up automatic stop registration for stops outside of production hours.

Click on the lower 3-dot symbol on the right hand side and navigate to the “schedule settings”

Activate the toggle to enable automatic stop registration

Select a stop cause from the drop down list. This will be the stop caused used to register all stops outside of shift hours. You can also put in a comment, if you’d like, e.g. “automatically registered”

If you want to also automatically split stops at the beginning or end of a shift, activate the toggle.

This is useful, if e.g. a shift started at 6:00 in the morning but production only starts at 6:30. In that case you might want to split the automatically registered stop at 6:00, so that the operators have to manually reason why the line was only running 30 min later.

Set an appropriate minimum stop duration for the automation to be activated by. This can be as low as 10 sec, but if you run unscheduled production sometimes, you might want to set it higher to not have operational stops during those production runs to also be registered as planned downtime.