The client doesn't want to spend more than they have already. :0) That is a constraint as much as the others.

I would like an "easy" method for the "production operator" to create each roll line (in my grid), so that the "weighing operator" doesn't have to create this entry as he/he is weighing each roll. The weigher would be aware of the "incoming" produced item before they arrive in his section, and would only be responsible for weighinng.

I wouldn't like to take the pressure off the production operators and throw it on a couple of weighing operators.

Do you think it is reasonable to create the "package" you mentioned as an alternative, and along with the package, create all the roll records when preparing this package, or am I asking for trouble? In other words, as with the pevious example, asn order of 100 rolls, would automaticaly append 100 items in my production file for that particular job, before the rolls get produced, waiting foe the qc updates?