Good morning my name is Jeff Halonen and with Steelhead Technologies and in this short video we are going to review Redline job costing in the steelhead platform so first just a quick overview of what the problem is and that's with automatic lines tracking job costs so in a typical Job Shop environment we have four basic production modes with job costing for each of them one is single part task so we're recording labor and typically no Capital supposed to be masking
or inspections this is typically labor timers and inventory so very basic stepping parts and building time against that task batch processing is is more of parts are in a patch so Heat Treating or powder coating many different parts or part numbers or work orders at one time but we're moving them together as a batch so there's a number of steelhead tools to accommodate batch processing and then manual diplines as well this is going to be the scanner lines or scanning Parts through the tanks and
we can set up our job costing to be customized even down at the tank level down to the second tracking of the locations of those parts however there's a fourth method called automatic line production mode so this is a carousel or a rack or Barrel or conveyor line where the line is moving at a continuous rate and we're just loading Parts in and then taking Parts out so job costing gets very complex and chaotic in this type of space and this is where the red line job costing tool really shines as
purpose built for a job job shop automatic line job costing and that's what the rest of this video is going to to cover Is How We Do red line job classing so real quick on when to use the red line method on most automatic line systems and when the time to load apart a single part takes exceeds the total process time of the station so for example if your your line apart goes in it comes out that takes one hour but you have three hours worth of parts to load that gets really confusing because now
if you just say well the parts are online the parts are off the line you are now counting the it'll now say four hours instead of instead of three hours worth so it it's really not accurate and then if multiple parts are being loaded at the same time so very common whether it's ergonomics or capacity or equipment to load multiple part numbers at the same time into a line and then also if these lines are not 100 full and we have gaps in between parts that we're processing we need to capture this
information to make sure that we are running our lines as efficiently as we can so a real quick visual demonstration of what's actually happening here the physics and obviously many automatic lines go in circles and and are all different shapes U shapes but I just modeled it as a single continuous line just for Simplicity here so we load Parts into the line there's the automatic processing of the parts and there may be humans in the loop here if we have people a powder coating or doing other activities
and there's unloading of parts so the red line here represents a typically a physical red line on the ground to represent this is where we are going to track where parts are at in this process and then this red box here represents either a tablet or a computer to to run the the red line interface so the idea is really to record how we're using our capacity so if we have an eight hour capacity for the day we want to allocate our costs accordingly to Parts as they consume that capacity so just as
a very simple representation here you can see part a maybe the first two hours is loaded by itself then Part B and part A are being loaded for a while and then there's a gap and then part C is being loaded so like how do we record and measure all that information that's really where the redline job Crossing tool shines so a line overhead rate is established and then operators clock into the line so that way our variable labor and things like natural gas and electricity are all captured and as our
parts essentially consume our production capacity to the line we are associating that costs accordingly and of course the redline job and costing tool is Distributing this cost in real time also retroactively and then any gaps in production are also identified so I'll show a real quick a demonstration of the tool here in steelhead so here we have an automatic line for a power line so we have staging this is a typical workboard so staging of Parts if you're familiar with steelhead you know all about
about the workboards so you have parts that are staging they have parts that are on outline the parts that are perhaps inspected pack as a simple example so for example if we have these parts for Boeing here let me go ahead and step these parts into the outer line so it's like hey we're starting to load these thousand parts we might be loading these for eight hours maybe loading them for three hours and then also we're loading in these John Deere parts as well so now we have our parts both the Boeing
parts and John Deere parts in the auto line and now to jump over to what the redline job Crossing interface looks like so it'll show the parts in fifo order as they've been loaded in and we have the ability to essentially start well we can first see all the instructions that we normally see with photos and things of that nature but what we can essentially do is at that at that interface that Redline interface we can start that Redline timer so we'd say hey we're working on these bowing parts and
just the Boeing Parts not the John Deere parts so now we're loading the parts and maybe for an hour or a half hour whatever it is it's it's capturing capturing that that information but you can see it's it's calling it out as 100 of the parts are being loaded however if after a period of time and and I can come in and add in some other parts just to get a better visual here so if I add in some of these ABC ink parts let's put in 200 Parts into the line as well I think these parts are on hold there
but if we start the the John Deere parts as well you can see it's now Distributing that cost across these across these parts here and then if we hit this little scale here because it might actually be 50 50 it's taking a gas based on part count but we can actually modify this as we as we desire and then change we can say well it's actually you know 80 one and twenty percent the other I'm gonna go ahead and save that so now in real time it'll distribute that job cost for both John Deere parts and
the Boeing parts but as we showed in the example let's say you know Part B or this this John Deere part if we want to and we can go back and forth between the part number instructions as well but if we want to stop the the John Deere parts or Part B we just go ahead and click step here you can see that the job costing immediately goes back to 100 boiling parts so this is how we are able to to track in real time and and also historically so if I actually step this last part I can either pause the
timer you know if we have a gap or we're not loading it for whatever reason or if I want to restart it and set the parts I can do that but I can also actually edit these recent timers so now I can see for this equipment the last 30 minutes week hour whatever it is so if I do the last hour I can see the you can see it's many short segments here it's a little bit messy but we're actually able to to modify this and use some pretty intuitive clicking click and drag tools to to redistribute the cost
based on on what actually happened so there's a bunch of advanced features in here like splitting as well so this allows us to look at our production line and accurately model the cost for any period of time and then just really briefly here if I jump over to one of these work orders and the stat is not going to look that great but you can see we have a margin report here and we have a red line cost so we can actually see that you know the timer started and stopped for 29 seconds 25 seconds and
it has a has all the costs associated with it as we discussed previously so that again is the redline job costing tool which allows for mixed production on automatic lines and also real-time job costing as well as those tricky situations where we run a part much longer than the whole processing time so essentially modeling all of our automated equipment and getting that accurate job costing we're always looking for thank you have a great day