Within a campaign (an optimized sequence of repeated machine setup cycles), work orders constitute the logical aggregation of similar production steps, for e.g. production sorting by similar fibers or mass per unit area in textile industries; production of strips of diverse widths out of a common coil in a steel service center, or production of orders with common cross-sections in a tube or profile industry.

This means:

• Several orders start and end together

• Distribution of time and quantity per production technology

• Multiple-machine operation and indirect employee assignment via logon to workplace

• Division or combining of material management messages with time messages

• Prepared customizations for specifics of several industries
  

Entries for interruptions, malfunctions, sideline jobs, visible errors, attendance records, etc. are part of a common function with corresponding plausibility checks. This prevents unreasonable efforts in data collection and additional error corrections.

The functions are suited for paperless information transfer to the workplaces (confirmation stations).