A station view is the screen a shop-floor operator works in at one
station: scan a unit’s barcode, see exactly what to do with it, and record that it was
done. Views are configured per station, so the same physical station can offer different
screens for different work.

How a view is opened

From the Station Views area of the main menu, the operator picks a production
line, a station on it, and one of the views configured for that station. The
view’s description becomes the screen’s title. What the screen does is decided by
the view’s type.

The view types

Type	Screen	What the operator sees & does
QC view / QC monitor	QC Monitor (v2 = the newer monitor)	The quality-control checkpoint. On scan it shows the unit — batch, customer, order reference, series, item description, grids, cart & slot, a picture with its dimensions and mark, and its route — then walks the operator through the QC questionnaire: accept the unit, or reject it with a reject code that can send it for repair or remake. If the view has an Avg Time, the live work timer runs here.
Cutting / Machining / Welding / Assembly view	Station barcode-track (each has a “monitor” v2 variant)	The fabrication step screens. On scan the view shows the unit’s work at this station — with the bill of material when the view’s display BOM option is on — and the cart it travels in. Completing the scan advances the unit; on views with a machine configured, the interface file for the machine is written to the view’s directory (cut lists to a saw, programs to a machining centre).
Packing view	Packing view	The packing station. Per-unit packing checklist, the order’s content with box numbers and status, and the packing accept that finishes a box. Packing scans drive the “ready to ship” status and the packed-per-day figures the Production Control Board shows.
Feeder view	Feeder station view	Feeds the fabrication stations: stages parts and carts so the downstream stations have material to work on.
Manufacturing view	Production-station manufacturing view	A station-by-station progress screen for manufacturing — where each assembly is on its route, based on the same scans.

A shipview type also exists in the configuration list but is not
implemented as a shop-floor screen today.

What the view settings control

Setting	What it does
Description	The view’s title on screen and in pickers.
Avg Time (seconds)	Turns the station into a timed one — live work timer, red when over the expected seconds.
Display BOM	Shows the assembly’s bill of material in the view.
Mass production	Works the view in quantity/batch mode rather than one scanned unit at a time.
Unit of measure	The UoM the view reports its quantities in.
Warehouse / location / rack / bin	The stock location the view’s scans move material through.
Machine & directory	The machine this view is tied to, and where its interface files are written.
Process status	The order status the view’s completing scan advances the work to (for example production completed, or in shipping).
View options	Which option groups the view displays, with their order, tier, and whether a group starts collapsed.

Setting up a view (OJ Setup)

Views are created and changed in OJ Setup → Production → Station Views, on three
tabs. The Views tab lists every view (id, station, description, type) with a
New / Edit / Save / Cancel / Delete form beside it — the id is assigned by the server, the
Station is the only required field, and View Class is the screen type from the table
above. The other two tabs configure the view selected on the Views tab:

• Config tab — serial-port rows for a device attached to the station’s screen (a scale or a
  scanner): Comm Port (on = use this row), Port Name, Baud Rate, Parity,
  Bits, Stop Bits, Hardware handshake. The station’s serial communicator picks its
  port by Port Name. The tab is disabled until a view is selected and saved.
• Options tab — one row per Production Line + option group: the Option (from the
  option definitions set up on the Options screen), its
  Display Order, its Tier — Normal, Attention or Critical — and
  Collapse If Default (the group starts folded when its value is the default). The table lists
  the options of the production line the selected view’s station belongs to; the tier decides how
  loudly the shop-floor screen flags a non-default value.

How to show the BOM, the options, the parts and a machine at a station

The four things an operator can see or get at a station, and where each switch lives:

To show…	Do this
The BOM (the part list)	On the Views tab, tick Display BOM on the view. On scan the screen then shows the unit’s bill of material — every part and cut piece with its quantities (the parts themselves come from the Parts screen through the manufacturing rules).
The chosen options (glass, grids, colours…)	On the Options tab, add a row for each option group the operator must check, with a Display Order and a Tier. A group with Collapse If Default ticked starts folded; a non-default value in an Attention or Critical tier is flagged on the screen so it cannot be missed.
The machine’s input file	On the Views tab, set the Machine ID and the Directory. When the operator completes a scan, the machine’s interface file (cut list to a saw, program to a machining centre) is written into that directory. The file’s contents come from the Saws settings of the station.
The parts’ stock movement	Set Warehouse / Location / Rack / Bin so the view’s scans move material through that stock location.

Worked example — a welding station. On the Views tab, New: Station Weld, View
Class the welding type, Description “Weld — Line 1”, Display BOM on, Avg
Time 420 (the timer runs 7 minutes), Process Status the “welded” status,
Machine ID 12 and Directory C:\machine\weld1. On the Options tab, add
“Glass” (order 1, tier Critical), “Grid” (order 2, tier Attention,
collapse-if-default on) and “Colour” (order 3, tier Normal). The operator scans a unit, sees
its BOM and the three option groups with anything non-standard flagged, and the completing scan writes
the machine file and advances the unit to “welded”.

Why stations use views — the benefits

• One screen per job, chosen for the station. An operator never wades through
  menus; the scan brings the unit’s own details, picture and instructions to them.
• Progress records itself. Every scan updates the unit’s position, so the
  Production Status Board’s per-station columns, the control board’s queues and
  bottlenecks, and the packed-per-day figures are always current without anyone keying
  anything in twice.
• Quality is enforced where the work happens. The QC questionnaire and its reject
  codes catch a defect at the station, and the reject code decides the routing — repair,
  remake, scrap — instead of a paper note discovered later.
• Time is measured against expectation. With Avg Time set, the work timer shows
  immediately when a unit is taking longer than the station’s standard, and the recorded
  time-in / time-out builds a history of how long work really takes.
• Machines get their input automatically. A view tied to a machine writes the
  machine’s interface file on scan — no re-keying cut lists or programs.
• Stations can evolve independently. Because each view is configured separately,
  one station can be timed while another is plain pass-through, one shows the BOM while
  another does not, and any station can gain a new screen without touching the rest.