Managing wage grade associations
You manage wage grade associations for a process group with the Wage Grade Associations table. The table allows you to assign a wage grade to a process (and thereby assign that wage grade to all the machines for the process) or assign a wage grade to an individual machine.
Alternatively, you manage wage grade associations with the machine table for a process or with the Wage Grade Name machine property for an individual machine.
To view the Wage Grade Associations table
In the navigation pane of the VPE Manager, expand the process group whose table you want to view, and click Wage Grade Associations.
The process group’s Wage Grade Associations table appears:
To assign a wage grade to a process
1 In the Wage Grade Associations table, select the process to which you want to assign a wage grade. Assigning a wage grade to a process effectively assigns
2 Double click the cell in the Wage Grade Name column for the selected row and select the desired wage grade from the dropdown menu.
3 In the machine table for the selected process, right click anywhere in the Labor Rate column, and select Clear Labor Rate Overrides.
4 Click OK in the Clear Labor Rates Overrides dialog. aPriori updates the Labor Rate field for every machine of the selected process.
5 When you are done editing the table, select Publish VPE from the File menu or click the Publish icon in the toolbar.
To assign a wage grade to a machine
Note that this is only necessary if you want a machine to have a different wage grade from the one established for the Process.
1 In the Process Name column of the Wage Grade Associations table, expand the process for the machine to which you want to assign a wage grade.
2 Select the machine to which you want to assign a wage grade.
3 Double click the cell in the Wage Grade Name column for the selected row and select the desired wage grade from the dropdown menu.
4 When you are done assigning wage grades to machines of the process, right click anywhere in the Labor Rate column of the process’s machine table, select Clear Labor Rate Overrides.
5 Click OK in the Clear Labor Rates Overrides dialog. aPriori updates the Labor Rate field for every machine to which you assigned a wage grade.
6 When you are done editing the table, select Publish VPE from the File menu or click the Publish icon in the toolbar.
Note that you can also assign a wage grade to a machine by selecting the machine in the navigation pane and editing the machine’s Wage Grade Name field.
You can also assign a wage grade to a machine by editing the machine’s Wage Grade Name field in the machine table for the machine’s process group.
In either case, aPriori updates the Labor Rate field once you have cleared Labor Rate overrides. (Note that is only necessary to Clear Labor Rate Overrides once per machine table.)