Example: Shop-order navigation within the Shop Floor Manager

The previous figure illustrates the Shop Order navigation drill down path structure of the SFM.
The result is a list of shop-order operations based on the user-defined search criteria.

Drilling down further opens information windows, which contain all available data and details of the selected shop-order operation.

The information is split-up into a planning segment and a segment containing the collected data about the current work in progress if the operation is or was active.

A separate drill down path (this is not shown in the figure above) provides access to additionally extended information segments that contain special instructions, raw material specifications and other important information related to the production process.

Any collected additional information about production activities, that is not part of the standard DIAMES data structure, is maintained as customized extensions and also made available for the visualization by SFM

The shop-order navigation is the most frequently used function of the SFM for general daily business-operations dealing with production. The authorized user has access to a combination of the features of the classic DIAMES Manufacturing Information Center ("MIC") and the shop-order manipulation functions of the DIAMES Terminal Manager.

The SFM is a powerful Microsoft Windows-based tool that is required by the production staff on the shop floor to execute all the tasks that are essential for the effective, complete and successful management of on-site the business process <production>.