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scheduling board for all staff to view. Whenever the touch scheduling board is updated, changes are immediately reflected on the employee's mobile device. e same is true the other way around. Any updates an employee makes via iVET are also reflected on the touch scheduling board." Critical Internal Communication Information is key in any high production shop. e more information, the better. at is why iVET even includes a "Create Document" option within the employee portal. With this feature, an employee can mark-up photos or drawings right on a tablet and upload or even email those images via the device's email client. When more information is required, iVET has the ability to capture, upload and link videos to a part number and/or workorder for historic reference. ere are many benefits to having one employee showing another employee on the next shift, or the next time they run the part, issues that he or she ran into running a particular part. An image, video or written notes can save hours of wasted time and wasted parts simply by improving communication. In case an employee needs to document more general information like a continuous improvement idea, they can use iVET's "Post to the Shop Blog" feature to do so. e shop blog is an accessible information hub and knowledge repository for all employees in the shop. One key feature of iVET is the employee portal. e portal is specifically designed for shopfloor personnel to facilitate their workflow throughout the day. e portal includes employee job efficiency metrics, operation assignments, job card creation, open job cards, workcenter schedules, document creation and shop blog. While the employee portal will be of key interest to shopfloor employees in the plant, that is far from the only information available from iVET. With the proper user rights, users can also optionally gain secured access to customers, vendors, human resources, sales orders, shop orders, metrics, KPIs (key performance indica- tors), shipments, inventory, messages, documents and tasks. Each option supports drill down menus that allow the user to view detailed information needed to help them do their job. For example, a manager who is out of town can use iVET to monitor what is going on in the shop at any time. Management can determine exactly what information is available to any iVET user through the security feature. In most cases, shopfloor employees would only have access to the employee portal features and potentially some top line information such as customers, vendors and so on, depending on their position in the company. Members of the management team may have deeper :: Individual employee portal display allows for an at-a-glance performance evaluation. :: Shop communication is expedited by using the shop- wide touch scheduling board. access or even full access to all aspects of the software. e HR function, for example, provides information as to who is currently clocked-in as well as attendance records. e sales orders functionality provides access to open customer orders (and due dates) for a chosen date range so backlog can be viewed. From there, the user can also check customer shipments to see what orders shipped to that customer for a date range. Getting to Know You "Our sales team loves the customer information features," says Mike Reader, president of Precision Plus. "When we're on the road, we can review a customer list by alphabetical order or geography so if we are in the Chicago area, we can quickly find all our customers in that area if we want to make some sales calls while we are in Chicago." e app will even open Google Maps and provide directions if we need it. Before getting there, I can quickly review their sales history with us, their credit limit, any outstanding orders, and so on, so when I walk in the door, I am fully informed about this customer." If a customer asks how his order is coming along, the Shop Order function allows the shop to pull up his specific job and tell him that his job is currently in production. "We can even tell the customer what machine it is being produced on and when it should be complete," Mr. Reader SHOP MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE 40 PRODUCTION MACHINING :: SEPTEMBER 2017