What is a Manual Process line?

A Manual Process Line is a type of line used whenever its not feasible collect data with a sensor. The manual process line is used to input downtime and downtime reason, while also making it possible to counts parts manually.

On Manual process lines, the operators manually input when, why and how long the process was stopped, as well as how many good parts was produced, or how many parts were scrapped.

Setting up a Manual Process Line

Manual Process Lines can be configured to enter downtime, or manually count production. You can also enable both at the same time.

1. Find your virtual device by searching for “virtual” in your Devices in Administration. If you don’t see one, contact sales to get one.

2. Create a sensor on the device. Wait about 60 seconds for the sensor to be created (refresh the page). Once created, open up the sensor settings for the new sensor. Here, you can enable production counting and downtime registration.

3. Create a new line with the new sensor as the bottleneck sensor.
4. If you go to the “Register stops” tab, you should now see your new downtime registration and manual counters if both have been enabled.

Downtime Registration

There are two ways to register stops on a Manual Process line:

Begin/end stop button You can either use the ‘Begin stop’ button to indicate that the process has stopped.

Afterwards, you will be prompted to choose a stop cause from the available options. The line will be marked as stopped, and the button will change to an ‘End stop’ button. When the process is running again, click the ‘End stop’ button to end the stop.

Insert stop button If you want to insert a stop that happened in the past, you can use the ‘Insert stop’ button. When you click it, you’ll be shown a dialog where you can select a stop cause and enter the ‘start’ and ‘end’ times of the stop. If the stop is still ongoing you can toggle the checkbox “ongoing”.