Technician Ability

The Technician Ability file holds the efficiency percentage for the Technician when doing work in the associated Skill group.

To edit efficiency:

Do one of the following:

• Click to edit: Click the required field to toggle the value between 100% and Blank.
• Right click to edit: Right-click in the required field, a pop-up menu is displayed with efficiencies ranging from No qualified to 200% efficient in 25% increments. Select the appropriate value and it will be entered into the grid.

Note: A blank field indicates that the Technician is not qualified to do work requiring that skill. When a technician is learning a skill they must be marked with a minimum of 25% in order to be able to clock onto a Labour line requiring that skill.

Technician Ability Form

The Technician Ability form is displayed when you select the Technician ability option from WORKSHOP LOADING MENU.

Field descriptions

Technician name: The title column shows the Technicians from the Resources file.

Skills: The title row shows the shortnames of the Skills from the Skills file.

RADIO BUTTONS

Operational: This is where all the technician's efficiencies are set up against their individual skills. The technicians are usually set to 100% depending on their ability to do the required work, this could be different if the technicians are apprentices or a workshop foreman.

Actual (90): The Actual 90 button calculates the real (or actual) efficiency of the technician over the last ninety days.

When this figure appears in the grid you can replace the Operational figure (i.e. 100%, 150% etc.) with the actual figure with a single mouse click on the cell you want to update. If you want to update all the technician's skill then click on the technician's name, to update all the technician's with the same skill i.e MOT or SERVICE then click the relevant skill header and to update all the technicians and all their skills click the top left hand cell highlighted in red to update the complete grid.

Legend

Colour	Description
	Single cell
	All row
	All column
	Complete grid

PUSH BUTTONS

Exit: Returns you to the WORKSHOP LOADING MENU.