Skills and usual workstations

Skills and usual workstations describe what work an employee can usually do and where they normally work. They help determine which work is relevant to that person, but they do not assign it or confirm availability.

Key differences

Concept	Question it answers	Scope
Skill	What kind of work can they do?	A process or operation type.
Usual workstation	Where do they normally work?	A workstation.
Assignment	Which specific work is prepared for them?	A particular operation or group.
Availability	When are they expected to work?	Periods calculated from schedules.
User permission	Which data and actions can they access?	Application modules and actions.

Skills and usual workstations help identify relevant work. They do not replace an assignment, schedule, or access permissions.

An employee can have skills without a user account. They can also have a user account without being configured for operational work.

Skills

A skill is based on a process. For example, an employee can be qualified for Cutting, Assembly, or Final inspection. Skills relate employees to operations compatible with their capabilities. They also help you analyze which people can cover each kind of work. A skill expresses operational capability. It does not guarantee that the employee is available or has an assigned operation.

Usual workstations

A usual workstation indicates where a person normally works. It makes work at their workstation or cell relevant, without restricting their activity to that location. The usual workstation and execution workstation are also different: the first expresses a stable preference; the second belongs to a specific operation.

Illustrative example

Ana has the Welding skill and Cell 2 as her usual workstation.

Data	What you can infer
Welding skill	Welding process operations are compatible with her capabilities.
Cell 2 as usual workstation	Work in that cell is particularly relevant to Ana.
Assigned operation in Cell 4	Ana has specific work outside her usual workstation.
Afternoon shift	Indicates when she is expected to be available.
Production permissions	Determine what she can view or change in Bold.

These details complement each other. None lets you infer the others on its own.

Relationship with work mode

Work mode offers several ways to find relevant work. My operations uses the source configured for the company: skills or usual workstations. These two sources are alternatives and are not combined:

Signal	Contribution
Skills	Compatibility with the process.
Usual workstations	Affinity with the workstation or area.
Assigned operations	Direct relationship with specific work.
Operation groups	Membership of a shared block of work.
Active or recent operations	Continuity of work already started.

A level of detail consistent with the shop floor’s actual organization helps skills and usual workstations distinguish relevant work.

​Key differences

​Skills

​Usual workstations

​Illustrative example

​Relationship with work mode

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Key differences

Skills

Usual workstations

Illustrative example

Relationship with work mode

Related