The Discrete Workstation provides you with a single window to obtain critical production information and perform common shop floor transactions. The workstation displays information by department or for a resource, and it lists all of the job operations for immediate and future dispatch at that department or resource.

You can view broad information, such as the utilization, efficiency, productivity, and load on the resources within a department or on a specific resource across all departments. You also can obtain detailed component and resource information on each individual job scheduled for the department or resource. You can perform move, completion, and other common transactions directly on the workstation’s tabs, or open their corresponding Work in Process windows directly from the workstation. There is also a link to Oracle Project Contracts records associated with specific jobs.

The Discrete Workstation can record and track discrete production in organizations enabled for Oracle Shopfloor Management. You can use all the capabilities of monitoring and transaction work on discrete jobs in a mixed mode organization where discrete and lot based jobs are both used.

The Discrete Workstation window is composed of two panes. The left pane displays the navigational tree. The right pane displays one or more tabs of detailed information that correspond to the branch or tab that you select from the tree.

Navigational Tree
The workstation’s left pane contains its navigational structure, which displays a hierarchical listing of the workstation contents. Since its structure is analogous to a tree with branches, it is referred to as the workstation tree.

• The tree displays four branches or levels of information. When you select a branch (the branch is highlighted), information relevant to that branch is displayed on tabs in the right pane of the workstation.

Expanding any of the individual job operation branches under either main branch displays two additional branches, the components and resources branches for that job.

• Branch Naming Conventions :The branch names displayed on the Discrete Workstation are automatically generated by the system. They contain the name of thejob (which you created when you defined the job in the Discrete Jobs window), and the number of the operation, separated by a colon. For example: BIKE_Assy1:20 is the BIKE_Assy1 job at operation 20.
• The information on the tree is always current, as jobs are completed – they are automatically removed from the tree. You can update the display at any time by choosing the Refresh tool.
• You can choose to view the information on the workstation tree in Vertical (the default), Interleaved (horizontal), or Org Chart (organization chart) format. These choices are available through tools on the toolbar, or as menu selections under the View menu.

Tabbed Regions
The workstation’s right pane displays one or more tabs of detailed information pertaining to the branch that you selected from the tree. The information is displayed either in tables, on lists, pictorially, or on graphs, so that you can quickly assess the status of the job. Tabs may also have buttons that enable you to:

• Perform common transactions directly from the tab, such as issuing components, performing assembly moves, or charging resources. Open the WIP Material Transactions, Move Transactions, and Resource Transactions forms directly from the workstation .Obtain attachments previously appended to a job, such as drawings and instructions
• View proerties, Assembly moves,Component shortages, Time Charges

Launching the workstation

The Discrete Workstation provides you with production information on the jobs assigned to a particular department or resource. In order to launch the workstation, you must first select the department or the department and the resource whose jobs you want to view.

• If you want to view all of the job operations scheduled to be worked on in a department, you select only the  epartment, then launch the workstation.
• If you want to view the job operations that are assigned to a resource associated with a specific department, you select the department and the resource, then launch the workstation.
• If you want to view a different department or resource, you must close the workstation, and launch it again, choosing a new department and resource from the workstation startup window.