Stencils Required List Layout

Background

When a production job order has a print screen process it will require an artwork, and a related set of screens - a"screen-set" that are required to facilitate the screen printing of that artwork onto a garment.

The Stencils Required layout shows all the screen-sets which have been recorded in strokeone together with a series of important information, such as:-

The screen-sets current status
Its location (if it exists)
The status of any job orders to which the screen sets are associated to / required on..

Additionally this layout allows you to flag screen-sets as a priority, or that they should be reclaimed and the ability to drill down to the screen-set record detail layout from where you can perform additional actions.

One of the primary purposes of this layout it to show screen-sets that are required to be manufactured for usage on upcoming job-orders.

About this task

This topic will instruct you how to understand the contents of, and the actions allowable from, the Screens Required layout.

Prerequisites

Ensure that:-

You are familiar with the concept of screen printing, particular the physical composition of a screen and its life-cycle.
You have logged onto strokeone, and that you can see and access the Screens button in strokeone's home banner.

Procedure

From the home banner, click the Screens and then Stencils Required buttons.
The Stencils Required layout opens..
The layout is pre-filtered to show records for those screen-sets which meet the following criteria:-
- The production process which the screen-set is required on, is not yet in a completed state.

However, you can enter find mode, and by using criteria, search for any screen-set that has been recorded in strokeone.

Layout Composition & Actions Permissible

This layout is composed of the following elements :-

(Note: In the below sections/text, the numbers in (bold parenthesis) refer to the annotations in the above screen-shot)

Specifically, for each screen-set record listed, the following information is displayed / actions are allowable. The numbers in parenthesis below refer to the annotation icons in the above screen-shot.

(1) Will open the screen-set detail record, from where you view additional information regarding the screen-set and its underlying individuals screens and perform additional actions.

(2) Status Icons for the screen record. These can be summarised as follows:-

Icon Label	Comments
Status	The status of the screen-set itself. Where the status is red, it means that the screens in the screen set need to be made.
Production	The aggregate status of all the production jobs to which the screen-set is associated to. For example, if a screen-set is associated to three job orders, two of which are completed, and one of which is not started, the Production status indicator will be red for the not yet started job. DEV- PJ states that he would like amber
Check over	Denotes that the screen-set is in the pre-check area.
Flag for Reclaim	Denotes that the screen-set has been flagged for reclaim. That is, an evaluation has been made that the job order(s) which required the screen-set to be manufactured, are unlikely to be reprinted, and therefore the screen-set can be recycled. Marking a screen set as flagged for reclaim is the first step in reclaiming the screens.

(3) Indicators that Alterations maybe required

Alterations can be requested in between when a production run and when a job order is repeated. They are typically requested according to two main scenarios:-

The job order is repeated, and the customer requests some alterations
When the original job order was completed, someone within Strokeone Software Limited evaluated that should the job ever be repeated, then making some alterations would result in a higher quality result.

In either case, alterations can be suggested at two levels:-

Changes to Artwork (which would result in an alteration to one or more screens)
Changes to Screen details - .e.g. use a different mesh count.

The status indicators here denote whether the alterations are required for Artwork (which will automatically mean changes to some screens in the screen-set) or to one or more Screens in the screen-set.

Clicking on the Alterations button will show a pop up form that contains details of the requested alterations.

(4) Pre-check Priority Indicator: This flag denotes that the screen-set should be treated as a priority for pre-check. That is, the screen-set is required on a repeat print job, so should be drawn down from its current location and placed in the pre-check area as a matter of priority.
The priority flag can be set directly from within this layout.

(5) Screen-set record data fields. Specifically, for each screen-set record, the following basic data fields are shown.

Field	Comments
Screenset Number	The unique internal reference number for the screen-set. This is taken from the tooling number field on the technical specs for the artwork on the corresponding job order.
Description	The description of the job order print screen process to which the screen-set are associated.
Date Required	The date which the screen-set needs to be manufactured for. This is set in the technical specs of the job order. You can manually alter the date from this layout if required..
Earliest Process Date	Lists the earliest date required from all the process line records that are associated to the job order. This can be used to aid rescheduling stencil creation (see below)
Location	The storage location where the screen-set is currently physically located.

(6) Pre-scripted Action buttons. The functionality for these buttons is as follows :-

Button Name	Comments
Tech Specs	This will display a pop-up of the technical specs for the artwork record which requires this screen-set click for example. TBC - layout subject to change re PJ comments Dec draft The tech spec pop up shows each screen in the screen-set together with detailed information that was recorded on the artwork technical specification For each screen required, the following data is shown Its status the screen type, RIP setting and Pos id The relative sort order for the screen, and the ink colour for each Pos Id The status of the ink manufacture.
Job Lines	This displays a pop of the job order process lines which the screen-set is required on. click for example. The job lines pop up shows each job order process line which requires the screen-set for its artwork records/ For each job order line to which the screen-set is associated to, the following information is shown:- The production status of job order Whether the job order is raised. The status of the tech spec for the job order artwork. The Job order number Description of the job process line The date that the process is scheduled to occur The date required for completion of the job order The quantity required for the job process line The Colour Way reference for the job process line Clicking the View button at the end of the row will show the colour visuals associated to the artwork for the job order.

(7) Status Icons related to Artwork

Icon Label	Comments
Tech Spec	The status of the technical specification for the artwork that requires this screenset. Where the status is red, it means that the technical specification has not been completed.
Artwork	The status of the artwork that requires this screenset.

(8) Sort by date button

Clicking this button will sort and group the records by the Date Required fields.

click for example

Rescheduling Stencil Creation

This layout allows you to re-schedule stencil required records. You may wish to do this to ensure that screen-sets required for production jobs is created at least a day or two prior to the production process that require them., and / or shift stencil required records according to workload and capacity

Tip: It is much easier to see what items should be re-scheduled once you have applied the Sort Date button

Consider the following simple example - it is 25th Jan, and you have workload capacity in the screen-room.
You can see that there is a series of stencils required to be created by the 26th January, but the earliest date required for a process on the job order is also 27th January which is only a one day window.

As you have workload capacity today, and would like to manage a two day buffer, you decide to move a series of stencil required records to today.

To alter the Date Required on a stencil required record from this layout, follow these steps.

Click to activate the calendar icon to the right of the Date Required field.
Within the calendar drop-down select the Date Required you want.
(in this example, we are selected Jan 25)
The selected date is applied.
The Layout dynamically re-sorts
Repeat as required.