The Downtime tab allows you to select a Reason Tree which specifies the reasons that can be selected by the operator for downtime during runtime. The Downtime tab also allows you to select the data collection method for the equipment.
Reason Tree
The Reason Tree specifies which downtime reasons can be selected by the operator during runtime.
Select a reason tree from the list or tick the Use Default check box to automatically use the default reason tree.
For further information on reason trees, see here.
Data Collection
This section allows you to specify how data for production times and downtimes will be collected. There are three options:
Inherit Downtime Information from Equipment
If you select this option the downtime for the equipment will be recorded from another piece of equipment selected in the drop-down list.
This is useful if you have two or more pieces of equipment on a production line and you know that one machine stopping will stop production on the rest of the line.
Manual Data Entry
Select this option if production and downtime will be manually entered using Data
Collect.
Select the following information from the drop-down lists:
Time Category for Operating Time: This time category will be used whenever production is recorded.
Time Outside Batches: This time category will be used whenever there is no production recorded (i.e. downtime).
For further information on time categories, see here.
Automatic Data Collection
Select this option if production and downtime will be collected automatically via ATS Bus. Automatic data collection may capture a lot of events (start/stop) and this may cause a lot of false readings. The ‘Do not register downtime shorter than’ option will ignore downtimes shorter than the specified amount to prevent these false readings.