Available job and step states

There are four states available to both jobs and steps.

• New

  A job in the New state indicates that the job is scheduled to be run but is not yet ready to start for one of the following reasons:

  • Upstream jobs need to be completed first.

  • For the first job of a work order that is assigned to a line, the work order is still in the New state.

    Depending on the user’s privileges, this state might restrict a user from starting the job in MES Operator.

    A step in the New state indicates that the step is preceded in the job step sequence by a step that is in the Ready or Running state.

• Ready

  The job or step is capable of being started. This indicates that the requirements for running this job or step have been met. For example, this can indicate that a upstream job has met the pieces produced requirement to start this job, or that this is the first job of a work order and all consumable BOM (Bill of Material) components are available.

• Running

  The job or step is currently running.

• Complete

  The job or step has finished running. For example, for a job this can indicate that required quantity to be produced has been met, that all steps have been completed, and that all required data has been entered.

There are three states available only to jobs.

• Suspended

  The job is paused temporarily. For example, a user at a shift change can suspend a job so that the next shift user can log in and continue running the job.

• Onhold

  The job is paused indefinitely. For example, this can indicate that there are material or machine issues.

• Canceled

  The job was started but then stopped before completion. For example, this can indicate that a customer canceled a work order for a job that had already been scheduled and started running.

There are two states available only to steps, to record the atypical execution of job steps.

• Bypassed

  The step within a job was skipped, allowing the next step to run. For example, if a setup step is not needed on a particular machine, it can be bypassed and the next step can be started.

• Superseded

  The step within a job was reopened to run again. For example, this can indicate that the produced item needed to be reworked. This would allow the data from the original attempt to be retained and not over-written by the new production data.