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Cost Report

Learn how to generate and interpret a Cost Report

Written by Vânia Lourenço

A report in Autodesk Fusion Operations is, essentially, a list of a certain type of element defined by the user within a given time period of your choice.

A ‘Cost Report’ will list all Cost Records made during a given time span. You can also apply filters to narrow down the information, and some advanced options as detailed below.

Generating the report

1. Go to the Reports menu.

Click on the ‘Reports’ (1) on the left side of the screen, and then on ‘Costs’ (2).

2. Filter and customize your data

  • Time period: refers to the time interval of records to be presented. You can either define it by clicking on the clock symbol, in a basic (selecting start and end date), relative (for example, ‘Today’, or ‘Last 7 days’), or 'detailed' (for example, two different time intervals).

    If you choose a relative time period, you can also choose to schedule the report - learn more about it here.

By default, in this panel, the start date is always the beginning of the present month, and the end date is always today.

  • Include Worker and Machine Downtime: the system will add a line in the report with all details for workers and machine downtimes logged during this time span. The downtime will appear as shown in the image below.

  • Include consumed products: the report will show all the consumed products at the end of the report, like in the image below, with all details for quantities and total costs, separated by lots.

Filters and Grouping

  • Report Filters: you can filter by several elements that compose a production record for only a single product or by a single worker, for example.

  • Report Grouping: When selected, a summary line will display at the bottom of

    the report, with the information grouped by the defined entity.

3. Generate Report

Finally, after choosing the report’s options that you want and their respective time intervals, press “Generate Report” to see your report.

If the message shown below is presented, you can choose to generate a report in Excel or in PDF by pressing the desired option.

If the message shown below is presented, you must reduce the timeframe or add additional filters to your report.

Moreover, if you already know you want to generate the report in PDF or Excel, you can also use the dropdown button directly, next to the "generate report" one, at the bottom of the page. After pressing it, you have the option to select the Excel (1) or PDF (2) option.

Once you've chosen the desired format for the report, a page will open, displaying a list of all reports generated in the past five days. This list includes the name of the generated file, the report's expiration date, and its status:

  • Download: This means the report is ready to be downloaded and saved to your computer. By clicking this link, you can download the selected report in the defined format.

  • Generating: This means that the report is currently being generated by the system.

  • Waiting: This indicates that the report is in a queue for generation.

You can check all the generated reports, in the last 5 days, under the 'Reports' tab, pressing the option "Recent Reports".

Interpreting the results

The report itself can be sorted by clicking on the arrows in the header.

The report integrates different colors. Each one of them can be added to a line with a specific meaning. Below you can check the legend for each one of them.

A ‘Possible time or quantity error’ might mean that the quantity for that record was 0, or that the record took less than 60 seconds.

In case the option "Include consumed products" was previously selected, a separate table in the report will be presented:

Regarding the time values given, here is what they mean:

  • Start time: Date - Time that a specific operation started.

  • End time: Date - Time that a specific operation ended.

  • Worker: Designated worker or group of workers that performed the operation.

  • Machine: The machine where the operation occurred.

  • Product Code: As the name states, the product code.

  • Product Name: Product Name

  • Operation Code: Operation code

  • Operation Name: Operation Name

  • Prod.Ord.: Code of Production order.

  • LOT/Batch Number: Lot number generated during the operation/production.

  • Productivity: The speed at which each work center works as a percentage of the optimal productivity for which it is designed to: Formula: Productivity = (Parts Produced * Optimal Cycle Time) / Produced Time.

  • QTY: Amount produced on the production record.

  • Unit of Measurement: Unit of measurement of the final product.

  • Cost - Work: The cost of work is the sum of the workers' cost per hour, with the machines' cost per hour multiplied by the time consumed during production.

  • Cost - W/Ideal time: Calculated as Cost - Work cost, but considering productivity was 100%.

  • Cost - Deviation: Difference between ‘Cost - W/Ideal time’ and ‘Cost - Work’.

  • Avg Pieces/Hour - Est.: Average number of finished products produced per hour, considering a productivity of 100%.

  • Avg Pieces/Hour - Actual.: Average number of finished products produced per hour.

On this page, you can also decide to export it to either PDF or Excel at the top.

FAQ

1. How can I have the cost of the production in the report?

Reach out to your account manager or support team to enable production costs in your account. Refer to this article to learn how to track production costs.

If, after reading this article, you still have some doubts, feel free to reach out to us through our Live-chat feature or directly to your CSM.

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