Today, we released two new features which offer our customers powerful ways to capture the reasons why their machines are down as well as provide real-time visibility into the utilization of the entire facility.

Real-time Downtime Categorization

Until now, managers could categorize downtime via our timeline view. This is great for longer downtimes, but can be a bit cumbersome when trying to capture all of the reasons why machines aren’t operating at their peak performance. Now in our Workcenter Views, machine operators can categorize downtime in real-time. This provides the best opportunity to capture the most accurate information as possible and helps managers get even more value out of our Pareto reporting.

Operators are prompted when machine is down

Operators are prompted when machine is down

Operator selects a reason

Operators can enter an optional message as well

Operators can enter an optional message as well

当工作中心恢复生产时，我们确保原因应用于整个停机时间。所有这些都是通过我们的停机帕累托报告来看来。

Utilization and Downtime Dashboards

Setting goals is key to being able to improve your manufacturing process. Prior to this release, goals were always based on part production. The color of the tiles on the dashboard would change to differentiate between ones that were meeting their goals, slightly behind, or far behind. Now, you can view your workcenters in MachineMetrics in two completely new ways by setting utilization goals or just see which workcenters are currently running.

瓷砖颜色与为每个工作中心配置的百分比绑定到百分比。

Tile colors are tied to the amount of time the workcenter has been inactive.

Tile colors are tied to the amount of time the workcenter has been inactive.

These dashboards are a great way to get started with MachineMetrics. No need to input your schedules, just set utilization goals for each workcenter (or don’t, we set some good defaults) and you’re on your way.

我们对这些新功能非常兴奋，并希望他们能帮助你起床并运行更快。如果您有任何疑问或反馈，请与我们联系。