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Online Production Control

Online Production Control (OPC) is a Business Central app by Dynapro AS. It adds a shop-floor layer on top of standard Business Central Manufacturing, so operators can clock in and out, register time on production order operations, post output and scrap, log indirect time, and read shop-floor messages — from a touch-friendly Role Center with optional barcode scanning.

New to Online Production Control?

Read the Overview first to understand the key concepts — especially that an operator is a Machine Center. Administrators should start with Enabling OPC & Permissions and Setup.

For shop-floor operators

Daily tasks operators perform from the Information Board and Role Center.

  • Time Registration

    Clock in and out for the day. Clock-out automatically posts open operation time and applies lunch deductions.

    Clock in and out

  • Operation Registration

    Pick a released production order operation and start or stop time against it, alone or on several operations at once.

    Register operation time

  • Output Registration

    Post output quantity, scrap, serial or lot tracking, and the registering resource for an operation.

    Post output

  • Indirect Time

    Log non-productive time — cleaning, maintenance, meetings, stops — against an indirect time code.

    Log indirect time

  • Resource Status Board

    See which resources are clocked onto which operation right now, and log an operator out by scanning a badge.

    View resource status

  • Move Components

    Move production order components from the staging location to another location with a reclassification post.

    Move components

For administrators and supervisors

Enablement, configuration, and back-office monitoring.

  • Enabling OPC & Permissions

    Turn on the OPC application area, assign permission sets, and filter the Role Center per user.

    Enable the app

  • Setup

    Configure the journal templates, concurrency, barcode scanning, and posting behaviour that drive OPC.

    Set up the app

  • Run Times & Corrections

    Review the run-time engine and capacity ledger entries, and correct a posted entry when needed.

    Review and correct

  • Role Center & Information Board

    Understand the operator home screen, its activity cues, and the information messages you can publish.

    Explore the board

How the pieces fit together

  1. An administrator turns on the app in Enabling OPC & Permissions and configures journals in Setup.
  2. Operators open the Role Center & Information Board and clock in with Time Registration.
  3. From an operation, they start time in Operation Registration and post results in Output Registration.
  4. Non-productive time goes to Indirect Time; the Resource Status Board shows who is working on what.
  5. Supervisors review the Run Times & Corrections and adjust capacity ledger entries when needed.