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Job Card Device in Dynamics 365: From reporting the start and end of a work day to reporting absence to registering feedback – job card device is everything that a shop floor worker needs in order to record their activities on a workday.

To introduce a more user-friendly touchscreen experience for both shop floor workers as well as their employers in Dynamics 365.

There are various device configurations and a list of settings under those configurations that help make it a simple yet powerful tool.

Where to select a device configuration?

You will see a list of configurations under Production control. Go to Setup > Manufacturing execution > Configure job card for devices.

From the device configuration listed in the left column, select the configuration as per your need.

You can also select ‘New’ on the Action Pane to add a new device configuration to the list. The value should be unique among all device configurations. Note that you can’t edit this Configuration name later.

Settings under Your Selected Configuration

Under General FastTab, you can configure each of the various options available for the selected device configuration as follows:

Report quantity at clock-out: This has to be set to Yes to prompt the workers to report their feedback on jobs in progress while clocking out. Setting it to No means the workers won’t be prompted.

Lock employee: If this has set to Yes, the worker will stay logged in to the job device.

When set to No, the worker will be logged out immediately after the registration in the job device.

In case a worker wants another worker to log in to the job card device under the same user account, they can manually log themselves out.

This requires associating one or more system users with the current device configuration using Assigned Users FastTab.

Barcode scanner: If you want the workers to register the start of a new job by scanning a barcode, set this one to Yes.

Single worker: If you want only one worker to use a particular job card device, set this to Yes. Once you do that, you automatically set the Lock employee option to Yes too.

Use the actual time of registration: If you want to use the log-in time of every new registration, set this to No.

Setting it to ‘Yes’ will set the time for each new registration as the exact time that registration was submitted by a worker.

If you have enabled the Single worker and/or Lock employee options, you might want to set this to Yes.

Allow workers to set personal filters: To let the workers filter the jobs shown to them on the device, set this option to Yes. They can modify values for any of these 3 filter criteria – Resource group, Resource, and Production unit.

Only those jobs which has scheduled on resources that match the selected filter criteria shall be shown on the device.

Allow locking the touchscreen: By setting this to Yes, a ‘Lock screen for sanitizing’ button has added to the device log-in page to allow workers to lock the job card device touchscreen and sanitize it.

Screen lock duration: When you set the ‘Allow locking the touchscreen’ option to Yes, you can specify the number of seconds (between 5 and 120 seconds) the touchscreen should remain locked for sanitizing.

Production unit: This has to be applied as a default criterion, unless the worker has enabled the option – Allow workers to set personal filters. That is the only case when they will be able to edit this particular value.

Resource and Resource group: These has to be applied as a default criterion, unless the worker has enabled the option – Allow workers to set personal filters. That is the only case when they will be able to edit the values.

Generate license plate: Setting this option to Yes will generate a new license plate every time a worker uses the job card device to report will be finished.

When set to No, the workers must specify an existing license plate while reporting the job as finished.

Print label: When a worker uses the job card device to report as finished, this option, if set to Yes, will print the license plate label.

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AI Builder for Power Platform: At Microsoft Business Application Summit in 2019, Microsoft announced Artificial Intelligence investments in the Power Platform. The Power Platform is a low code platform that enables organizations to analyze data, act on it through applications, and automate business processes. It allows everyone, from the professional developer to the frontline worker, to participate in driving better business outcomes by building apps.

It will be available for consumption on data that already exists in the Common Data Service (CDS), the enterprise-grade datastore included in the Power Platform. AI Builder is the platform for providing a low-code user experience for every developer to create and customize their PowerApps and Flows.

You can access AI Builder from the navigation pane within the PowerApps Studio or the Microsoft Flow website. The simple wizard like experience is tailored to empower every developer in keeping with the essence of the Power Platform. You can access all your AI models in a single pane under the AI Builder ‘Models’ tab, providing key information about each model upfront in a tabular format. Clicking a particular model takes you into its details page, where other key information and actions are made available to the user. You can perform actions like publish and test the model, view the model efficacy and weights of data contributing to it or view other recommended actions from the details page.

Below are the key capabilities of AI Builder that we are announcing today:

Binary Classification

Binary Classification uses historical data to predict whether new data falls into one of two categories. AI Builder binary classification is an AI model that predicts yes/no business outcomes by learning to associate historical data patterns with historical outcomes. Based on those results, the binary classification model detects learned patterns in new data to predict future outcomes. Use the binary classification AI model to explore any business question that is answered as one of two available options, such as yes/no, true/false, pass/fail, and go/no go.

Text Classification

Text Classification tags any snippet of text based on the historical data you provide. Streamline your business by automatically tagging new text. Text classification is one of the fundamental Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems. It allows tagging of text entries with tags or labels which can be used for sentiment analysis, spam detection and routing customer requests, just to name a few examples. Use AI Builder text classification with Microsoft Flow and PowerApps to automate and scale your business processes, and free your employees to act on these insights. It can also be used as an input for other AI capabilities such as subscription user churn and predictive analysis. AI Builder can learn from your previously labeled text items, and enable you to classify unstructured text data stored in Common Data Service into your own business-specific categories.

Object Detection

Object Detection lets you count, locate, and identify selected objects within any image. You can use this model in PowerApps to extract information from pictures you take with the camera. Object detection can be used to expedite or automate business processes in multiple industries. In the retail industry, it can be used to simplify the inventory management, allowing retail leaders to focus on on-site customer relationship building. In the manufacturing industry, technicians can use it to speed up the repair process by looking up the manual for a piece of machinery by taking a picture, even if the UPC/serial number is not visible.

Business Card Reader

Business Card Reader is a component available in the PowerApps studio that lets you scan business cards. You can use this control to extract contact information from pictures of business cards or your mobile phones camera.

Form Processing

Form Processing identifies the structure of your documents based on examples you provide to extract text from any matching form. Examples might include tax forms or invoices. Form processing allows you to create and consume models that use machine learning technology to identify and extract key-value pairs and table data from form documents. Train your model and define what information needs to be retrieved from your form documents. You only need five form documents to get started. You can get results quickly, accurately and tailored to your specific content without the need for a lot of manual intervention or extensive data science expertise.

With the above announcements, AI Builder makes available Cognitive and AI offerings from Microsoft to everyone by lowering the bar to entry and learning by providing a low code experience to create and consume AI in Business apps and Processes. There by providing a true no-cliffs opportunity with a grow up story to Azure ML and Cognitive services.

We’re delighted to continue to add value to the Power Platform and realize the vision of enabling the next wave of Citizen and Pro-developers to make intelligent business applications.

Customer Testimonial

G&J Pepsi, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, has more than 1,600 employees focused on manufacturing, distributing, and marketing the full line of Pepsi-Cola products. The G&J Pepsi IT team used AI Builder and PowerApps to create the next generation of their Store Audit App, enabling better mobility and efficiency for field personnel whose job it is to assess product needs on the shelves in stores.

“With AI Builder, we were able to easily build an AI model to help automatically identify and track our products using the object detection model,” said Eric McKinney, Enterprise Business Systems Manager at G&J Pepsi. “For our field worker, it’s now as simple as taking a photo and let AI builder do the rest.”