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Part Labor Timers
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Labor Timers
Labor Timers are used for employees to track time spent on various tasks, including working Parts, doing Maintenance, entering Sales Orders, time on Stations, Workboards, Racks, etc.
Once a Time Segment has been Saved, it will automatically be entered as a Billed Labor time segment.
Starting a Labor Timer
- From your Steelhead homepage, click on the green Start Labor Timer button
2. This will bring up the Labor Timer dialog box, where you can choose a Station, find a Part Account or Rack, Sales Order, or Maintenance Event.
Find and select the task you will be starting work on. By clicking the ADD button, you can add multiple line items of where you will spend your time.
Click SAVE to start the timer.
Note: Adding multiple lines is meant to be an outline of what your day may look like.
Stopping a Labor Timer
3. When you're ready to stop a timer with multiple line items, click the Stop Timer button.
4. You will be asked to confirm and/or edit the time you spent in each area. The Total time will automatically be split evenly between each line.
5. Click the graph icon to access the Timeline Graph Editor.
As you make changes to each Time Segment, you will see the "% Billed" change accordingly. Once you've confirmed your labor time, click SAVE
Starting a Timer on Parts from a Work Order
6. You can start a timer from the Parts section on a Work Order by navigating to the desired Work Order
7. Scroll down and click the START TIMER button on a Part. This will instantly start clocking time for that part on that Work Order.
Starting a Timer from a Workboard
You can also start a timer from within a Workboard.
8. Click the Workboards dashboard from your Steelhead homepage
9. Choose a Workboard
10. Click on the Work Parts tool
11. Clicking the START TIMER button will instantly start clocking time for that Part on that Workboard
Starting a Second Timer
12. If you already have a timer running, confirm the time spent on that timer and click Save. That will Save the previous timer AND start the new timer.
Starting a Timer on a Rack
13. You can also start Labor Timers on Racks. Choose a Rack Workboard from your Workboards dashboard
14. Click the green Labor Timer button directly on the Rack. This will instantly start clocking time unless you have a timer running already.
Active Timer Dashboard
15. You can easily access the Active Timer dashboard by clicking on the Clock icon at the top of any page within Steelhead
16. The Active Timer table in the Active Timer dashboard shows Started At, Duration, Details, and Actions.
The Recently Ended Timers table shows the Sales Order Number, Work Order Number, Part Number, Recipe Node, Station, Rack, Started and Ended times, Total Duration, and Actions
17. In the Billed Labor Hours section, there's a visual graph of where you've clocked your time. Adjust the view of the time segment by month, week, or day.
Editing Billed Labor Time Segments (Timeline Graph Editor)
18. Clicking on ALL BILLED HOURS will bring you to a time graph and allow you to edit your Time Segments
Note: This will bring up the same page as the graph icon (Timeline Graph Editor) from the Stop Labor Timer dialog box.19. Click HIGHLIGHT GAPS
20. The HIGHLIGHT GAPS button helps you see where you may have forgotten to start a timer.
Use the AUTO FILL GAPS button to fill in those time segments so that they can be added and charged as a Billed Labor Cost.
21. Click RESET ALL EDITS to revert.
22. Click SAVE to save any changes
Starting a Timer on a Sales Order
23. To track time on entering or changing Sales Orders in Steelhead, click the Sales Orders tile from the homepage.
24. Open a Sales Order
25. Click START TIMER. The Labor Timer will instantly start counting up.
26. Click STOP TIMER
27. Confirm or edit the time spent. Use the RESET ALL EDITS button to revert any changes you made.
Use the Open Timeline Graph Editor icon to make further changes to any of your recent timers.
Click SAVE to close, or SAVE & START NEW TIMER to start another timer.
Starting a Timer on Maintenance
28. To start a Labor Timer for doing Maintenance, navigate to the Maintenance tile from your Steelhead homepage.
29. Select a Maintenance Event
30. Click START TIMER. The time will start counting up instantly.
31. Once you're done with the maintenance, click STOP TIMER.
32. Confirm or edit the time spent. Use the RESET ALL EDITS button to revert any changes you made.
Use the Open Timeline Graph Editor icon to make further changes to any of your recent timers.
Click SAVE to close, or SAVE & START NEW TIMER to start another timer.
33. You can also start a timer from within the COMPLETE MULTIPLE NODES page.
34. Click START TIMER. The time will instantly start counting up.
35. Click STOP TIMER when done. Make sure to confirm your time and click SAVE.
See Margins on a Work Order
36. Labor Timers will automatically add Billed Labor Time to Work Orders. Navigate to the Work Orders tile from your Steelhead homepage.
37. Select a Work Order
38. Click on View Margin
39. You can see the Part Labor Cost has been automatically calculated based on the Labor Cost of the employee that logged time on that Work Order.
See also: Timer Dashboard