Office tools measure point settings

This is feature is included in RS Production OEE and RS Production ACT.

Properties of measure points

Property	Description
Name		RS Production OEE, RS Production ACT
Theme	Colour theme so that you can easily identify the measure point in visualizations.	RS Production OEE, RS Production ACT
Section	Sections are used to create organizational groupings and structures of measure points. E.g. measure points for processing machines can be part of one section “Processing” and packing machines part of a section “Packing department”.	RS Production OEE, RS Production ACT
Cycle signal input	The cycle signal input on RS Blackbox which is linked to the measure point. This is empty if the measure point does not use a cycle signal from RS Blackbox	RS Production OEE, RS Production ACT
OEE target	The performance indicator used to determine GREEN or RED for the measure point’s OEE outcome	RS Production OEE
Measure point configuration	The set-up with additional settings that has been linked to the measure point. The measure point configuration can be shared with other measure points.	RS Production OEE, RS Production ACT

Measure point and Measure point configuration

Measure point configuration is a “supporting object” for the measure point in order to simplify the configuration when you have many measure points with the same settings. The same measure point configuration can itself be shared by several measure points.

Many properties are set on the Measure point object, but properties that are often the same for several measure points are set instead on the Measure point configuration object.

The table summarises the most important properties, times and amounts that are stored for the measure point.

Properties

Name

Colour theme

Section (Section allocation)

OEE target

Data collection, machine signals, inputs on RS Blackbox

Connection to Operator tools terminals

Etc...

Times and amounts

Produced amount

Scrapped amount

Uptime

Stop time

Active order

Active article

Etc. ...

Configurations

The settings used to convert collected machine signals to production data in RS Production are also set on the measure point object.

As long as the article being run does not have a deviating value configured for the article in question, the measure point object’s value will be used.

This means that you set the general value on the measure point object and then set deviations on the article object.

Field	Meaning	Unit
Limit for production stoppage	The longest time for Micro stop that does not have to be assigned a reason code. If a Stop is longer than “Limit for production stoppage”, it becomes a Production stoppage and will need a stop reason.	Seconds
Shortest stop displayed in terminal	A stop that is shorter than the “Shortest stop displayed in terminal” is not displayed on the page for stop reason coding in Operator Tools. It is still a stop and is counted as an Availability loss in the OEE calculation. It is shown in the stop reports. In the Downtime follow-up, the stop will be shown as a Micro stop (unless it has been assigned some other reason code).	Seconds
Standard schedule	Reference to the schedule for planned production time that is to automatically repeat itself for the measure point.
Unit prefix	The character or text that is always written before produced amount.
Unit suffix	The character or text that is always written directly after produced amount. E.g. ‘Kg’ or ‘Meter’. A useful tip is to add a space as the first character to obtain a gap between the value and the unit (24 kg).
Longest cycle time	Sets the limit for how long you must wait for a new cycle before starting to count Stop time.	Seconds
Optimal cycle time	The same as the equipment’s maximum design speed. Optimal cycle time is the definition of 100 per cent Performance in the OEE calculation.	Seconds
Setup cycle on changeover	The number of cycles without interruption required to end the changeover stop and change the measure point’s status from Set to Ok Please note that production that occurs during changeover time is registered as produced amount and therefore has to be scrapped manually.	Number
The shortest permitted time between two cycles	Only used for filtering out noise when collecting by signal between cycles. Please note that values smaller than a second cannot be specified. This can be resolved by a setting in RS Blackbox. Contact support for help in this respect.	Seconds
Amount per cycle	Factor that recalculates the number of cycles to produced amount. The figure may be more or less than one, but cannot be negative. 0.5 = two cycles are needed to produce one unit (e.g. 0.5 litres per cycle). 1 = Each cycle is one produced unit 2 = Each cycle produces two units