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Machines
The Machines page lists every machine with its status. Machines that have stopped reporting come first. Open one to see its values and charts.
Status
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Reporting | A reading arrived within the last two intervals |
| Late | Nothing for more than two intervals, usually a brief network drop |
| Not reporting | Nothing for more than three intervals. Opens an alert. |
| Waiting for first reading | Added, and nothing has arrived yet. Not a fault. |
Status is about the connection, not whether the machine is working.
Values
Each tile shows the latest value of one reading. On and off readings show On or Off.
- No data: nothing has ever arrived for that reading.
- Not updated since a time: that one value has stopped while the rest continue. Look at the sensor or the gateway.
Charts
| Range | Drawn as |
|---|---|
| 1 hour, 24 hours | Every reading |
| 7 days, 30 days | Average per hour, with a band for each hour's lowest and highest |
| 1 year | Average per day, with the same band |
Time in state
When a machine has a run signal, its page shows how the time was spent:
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Running | The run signal was on |
| Idle | Reporting, and the run signal was off |
| Down | The down signal was on. Shown only when a down signal is set; otherwise stopped time counts as idle. |
| No data | Nothing arrived |
With a part counter, a reject counter, an ideal cycle time and shifts set up, the machine page also shows OEE: availability, performance and quality per shift. See Setting up machines.
Why a machine stopped
When a machine stops, anyone signed in can say why, picking from your company's downtime reasons. The choice is recorded with their name.
Wall display
Wall display, linked at the foot of every page, is the machine list in large type with no navigation, for a television. It is always dark, refreshes every 30 seconds, and needs someone signed in on that screen once. Anyone who can see it can see your whole portal, so use a screen that stays in the building.
Sharing one machine
A manager or administrator can create a link on a machine page that shows that one machine to anyone who opens it, with no sign-in: its current values and charts, nothing else. There is no password on it, so treat the link as the data. Revoking it is immediate.