Activating Shop-Trak
Capture the work. Validate it. Post it. Activation sets Shop-Trak up on your SyteLine data, gets your stations recording labor and material, and trains the people who will run it.
What activation includes
Included Standard installation
- Shop-Trak parameters
- Main tab, flags, controls and background posting.
- Basic Shop-Trak files
- Employee, item, work center and workstation profiles; break and lunch schedules; rules; teams; indirect codes.
- Supporting files
- Shift codes, scrap reason codes, utilities, and labor and material transfer settings.
- Standard labels
- Default templates and label rules.
- Licensing and devices
- Applying licenses and registering devices.
- Daily administration
- Editing transactions, approvals and adjustments, transfer and post, unlocking employees.
- Train-the-trainer
- The Labor, Materials and Info tabs, and Visual Dispatch.
Tuning Quoted, billed for time used
- Roles
- Manager, Planner, Quality and Executive roles; beacons and beacon scanner.
- Advanced labor rules
- Multi-job, team multi-job and rate change rules.
- Material processes
- Kanban, JIT, production schedule, containers, lot and serial backflush.
- Machine labor
- Unattended machines and machine transaction rules.
- Doc-Trak in Shop-Trak
- FLEX, saving rules and visual work instructions. You build the instruction content.
- Multi-location
- Workstation time zones and multi-site group logins.
Custom work Quoted
- Payroll
- Payroll settings, generation tables, precheck, generating payroll, holiday records and exporting hours.
- Custom labels
- Custom label design, tables and fields (Bartender).
Products new to your account include a standard installation. Products you already run carry no included installation, except a reinstall when you move to Infor's multi-tenant cloud. Tuning and custom work are quoted before they start.
Before we start: what you need in place
We check these with you before we schedule. Anything not in place yet goes on your checklist, and we schedule once it's ready.
Systems and software
SyteLine, versions and access
- SyteLine version
- SyteLine 9 or later.
- Shop-Trak Mobile
- SyteLine 2025.07 or later and Shop-Trak 2026 SP02. You need both.
- Server access
- Administrator access to your SyteLine utility or application server, and remote access for our team.
- Infor's multi-tenant cloud
- An Infor OS service account and authorized app (ION API) for the connection to SyteLine. We can create these with you during installation.
Floor hardware and network
At every Shop-Trak station
- Workstations
- A PC or tablet at each station. Shop-Trak 2027 licenses each station as a named device.
- Monitors
- A 17 inch screen at 1366 x 768 or better. We recommend touch screens.
- Barcode scanners
- A USB barcode scanner where operators scan jobs or badges. We recommend laser scanners.
- Network
- Every station on your network, with wireless coverage wherever Shop-Trak Mobile is used.
Your team and data
Decided before setup starts
- Shop-Trak administrator
- One person who owns the setup and stays on as your administrator.
- SyteLine data
- Employees with shift codes, work centers, and routings and standards that match what the floor actually does.
- Identification method
- How each person identifies at the station, such as a badge or barcode.
- Supervisor time
- Supervisors available on the floor during rollout, not only your IT lead.
Your account team confirms these requirements against your SyteLine version and hosting before your activation is scheduled.
What we'll ask in your request
- How many stations you'll run, and what kind (PC, tablet, phone browser, shop-floor TV)
- Whether you'll use Shop-Trak Mobile
- How employees will identify at the station
- Roughly how many work centers and shifts you run
- Your label printers
- Whether you want payroll or custom labels quoted
The Lake MES Platform, from The Lake Companies, LLC, an Infor Gold Channel Partner. "Included" means it's part of your platform subscription. Capability marked expected or planned isn't released yet and may change. Questions about a product that's already running go to support@lakeco.com.