Production Job Progress¶

Introduction¶

Production job progress helps teams understand how material moves through a job after work has started. It shows what has been received as usable output, what is still pending, what failed quality checks, what became recoverable scrap, and what was lost as waste.

For manufacturers and wholesalers, this makes production status easier to explain across teams. Production managers can see whether a job is on track, quality teams can separate rejected output from usable output, finance teams can understand loss and scrap value, and sales or operations teams can see what is ready for the next step or customer order.

Use this page when you want to understand how Loupe Factory calculates job progress, efficiency, and production run history from the weights recorded on each production job.

How Loupe Factory Calculates Job Progress and Efficiency¶

Loupe Factory tracks production at the job level by separating material into five operational buckets:

• Received: good output weight recorded back from the job
• Rejected: output weight that was produced and received, but failed quality
• Scrapped: tracked recoverable material kept separate from normal output
• Waste: unrecoverable loss that is not stored back as inventory
• Pending: weight that has not yet been accounted for

The calculation view uses the same five buckets. If a requested weight exists, Loupe Factory uses it as the progress base. Otherwise, it uses issued weight.

Step 1: Determine the progress base¶

For each production job, Loupe Factory first decides what weight should be used as the job's base:

In day-to-day terms, this means Loupe Factory prefers the weight your team was asked to deliver. If that number was never set, it falls back to the weight that was actually issued into the job.

Step 2: Progress bar percentages¶

The progress bar on a production job divides each bucket by the same Progress Base so teams can see where the material currently stands:

This is why the progress view helps production, quality, and operations teams read the same job differently without changing the underlying numbers.

Step 3: Efficiency chips on the production job¶

Loupe Factory also shows four efficiency measures on each production job. These answer a different question from the progress bar: not just where the material is, but how efficiently the job converted it.

Output % is the practical yield figure for the job. Rejected weight is included because it was still physically produced and measured back from the stage.

Gross Waste % captures the full process loss, including tracked scrap.

Net Waste % is the true loss waste figure in Loupe Factory. It excludes scrap and focuses only on unrecoverable loss.

Consumption % shows how much material was lost for every unit of measured output produced. Lower values indicate a tighter, more efficient process.

Next Steps¶

• Production Tracking: Create production jobs, receive output, record losses, and view production run history.
• Order Management: Understand how linked production jobs affect order progress and production metrics.
• Reporting & Analytics: Review production efficiency reports and export loss data.