Introduction
Most of major production or factory companies tend to have a multiple shift in order to keep the factories going for 24 hours. The management may convenient adopt the multiple shift scheduling in Ingress/TCMSv3 to cater their production requirement.
Benefit
By using this option, the management can configure their own multiple shift scheduling to keep the business operation run for 24 hours per day instead of using a single shift schedule.
Conditions that requiring this feature:
1. Have more than 1 working shift.
2. Each shift has more than 1 break time.
3. Each break time period is different.
Shift/Timing | First Shift | Second Shift | Third Shift |
05:00 to 17:00 | 06:00 to 18:00 | 07:00 to 19:00 |
Morning Breaks | 07:00 to 07:15 07:15 to 07:30 | 08:00 to 08:15 08:15 to 08:30 | 09:00 to 09:15 09:15 to 09:30 |
Lunch Breaks | 11:30 to 12:30 12:30 to 13:30 | 11:30 to 12:30 12:30 to 13:30 | 11:30 to 12:30 12:30 to 13:30 |
Evening Breaks | 16:00 to 16:15 16:15 to 16:30 | 16:00 to 16:15 16:15 to 16:30 | 16:00 to 16:15 16:15 to 16:30 |
Table 1: Timetable for 3 shifts.
Table 1 is a time schedule for staff in a company. There are a total of 3 working shifts in a day. In each shift there are 2 teams of workers which are entitled to different break times. Workers could not change their break time after they have been assigned to it. In this case, you need to break down the above working schedule to a schedule that is shown below,
Name of Group | Schedule | In | Break | Resume | Out |
1st Shift Grp A | a b | 0500 1230 | 0700 1600 | 0715 1615 | 1130 1700 |
1st Shift Grp B | c d | 0500 1330 | 0715 1615 | 0730 1630 | 1230 1700 |
2nd Shift Grp A | e f | 0600 1230 | 0800 1600 | 0815 1615 | 1130 1800 |
2nd Shift Grp B | g h | 0600 1330 | 0815 1615 | 0830 1630 | 1230 1800 |
3rd Shift Grp A | i j | 0700 1230 | 0900 1600 | 0915 1615 | 1130 1900 |
3rd Shift Grp B | k l | 0700 1330 | 0915 1615 | 0930 1630 | 1230 1900 |
Table 2: New Timetable.
You may break each shift into 2 groups, Group A and Group B (total 6 groups). Each group will be separated into 2 schedules, e.g. schedule a for morning and schedule b for evening. Create a total of 12 Clocking Schedules (3 shifts x 2 groups per shift x 2 schedules per group) as per Table 2 above (Schedule a to l). Once this is done, assign the 2 schedules for each group into a Shift Group Duty Roster, repeating this for all 6 groups (total 6 GDR).
Step 1 • Setting up Clocking Schedule.
Clocking schedule a (Schedule ID:2)
Clocking schedule b (Schedule ID:3)
Step 2 • Setting up Group Duty Roster.
You can select the Shift Group Duty Roster for schedule a and b. In the Group Duty Roster dialog, click Edit and choose the “Auto Schedule” option then configure it as below:
Remark to configure the group duty roster:
1) Choose the day type. assuming 1 is Sunday, 2 is Monday and so on.
2) Input the clocking schedule codes. Choose the effective date range. Always look for a date that starts from Sunday.
After the setting has been completed in the Auto Schedule Assistant, click the “Okay” button for the system to generate the duty roster. After generating, a new Group Duty Roster dialog should appear as shown below:
By scrolling down the “Multi-Shift”, you may view the second or the third working shifts. Repeat step 1 as mentioned above to generate clocking schedules and group duty rosters for the rest of the workers. By configuring the Group Duty Roster, all workers must complete 2 working shifts in a day. If a user misses 1 shift, the user will be reported as did not complete his or her job.