Location Tracking

Location tracking answers one question on the floor: “where did you put it?” — once, at the machine, instead of reconstructing it later. It is on by default and can be turned off per shop.

Recent changes to this area are in the release notes.

When to use it

A part finishes at one cell and waits for the next. On a busy floor, finding that part again costs time. Location tracking records the drop-off slot at the moment the operator reports the work done, so the next person walks straight to it and the planner can see what space is left.

If your floor does not move parts between buffers, turn it off in Organization Settings → Location tracking — when off, the terminal does not touch any of it. The onboarding wizard asks the same question when you import the demo data: with drop-off locations on, the demo creates four slots per cell and places the parts that already finished a step, including one full slot, so the picker, the queue and the admin grid show real occupancy from the first minute.

Admin setup

Lay out your physical drop-off slots at Configuration → Locations (Organization Settings reminds you with a link while no slots exist):

• Give each slot a code (for example A01) and an optional label.
• Tie a slot to a cell so the picker shows that cell’s slots first; leave the cell blank for a general slot any cell can use.
• Set a capacity — how many parts the slot holds.

A slot can be a rack position, a floor zone, a trolley — whatever your floor already uses.

Operator flow

1. The operator finishes an operation and taps complete.
2. A slot picker opens, scoped to the cell the part heads to next (plus any general slots), pre-selecting the most open one and naming that cell so the part lands in the right lane.
3. The operator confirms (or picks a different slot). Full slots are marked so nothing gets double-stacked.

That is the whole interaction — one tap on the slot, one to confirm. A part is only ever in one place: recording a new slot clears the old one automatically.

The same view lives in the operator terminal’s Location tab, so an operator can check or change where a part is at any time — not only at completion. It shows the current slot (or “not placed yet”), where the part is heading next and how many free slots that cell still has; when they are all full the tab says so in red.

In the work queue every part that sits in a slot carries its slot code next to the part number, so an operator picking the next job sees at a glance where to fetch it.

What you get

• Occupancy at a glance — free versus full per slot, computed live from what is currently placed.
• One place per part — the system never shows a part in two locations.
• Attribution — the placement records who put it there, the same way time entries record who did the work.

Planned

Capacity by part size, a visual map of the layout, and API access for automated placement are possible future work, not yet shipped.