PlantStar Panorama Help

Shop Floor Monitor

PlantStar Panorama's goal is to provide you with a data collection and monitoring apparatus that enables you to make informed decisions on the factory floor in real-time. It defines the shop floor, schedules jobs on the floor, and monitors those jobs.

The Monitor program provides information on current shop floor activity. Within Monitor, real-time monitoring is presented as a "moving window" of recent events. Information on the current shift, the current job, or the most recent machine cycle is presented in a variety of windows. A scheduling component, accessible through the Schedule menu, utilizes the Shop floor Configuration program's definitions in order to facilitate planning activities. These planning activities take the form of job scheduling. Jobs, their priorities and placement in a job queue, provide the work schedule for the shop floor.

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Machine States  
Shift Scheduling  
Creating Work Orders  
Creating Work Orders from a Standard  
Job Scheduling  
Process and Production Monitoring  
Displaying SPC Statistics  
Material Lot Tracking