| · | Shop Configuration - The Shop Floor Configuration program enables you to define the physical descriptions of machines in terms of down reasons, reject reasons, assist reasons, boot sets, display groups, DCMs, and Communications Processors. Once defined, these shop floor characteristics provide the foundation upon which jobs are scheduled. The Shop Configuration program also lets you define users, their privileges and passwords.
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| · | Shop Floor Monitor - The Shop Floor 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 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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| · | Voice Output - A PlantStar Panorama system configured with the Voice Output Option is able to broadcast messages relating to currently monitored exception conditions such as Down, Idle, Fast, Slow, and Production Exception. These messages can be heard on speakers or public address systems.
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| · | Print and View Reports - The View and Print program provides up-to-date shift and job history information in the form of on-line and paper-generated reports. Your system provides a variety of pre-existing reports from which to choose.
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| · | Design Manager - The View and Print program is an Add-on Feature for your system enables you to create your own reports. The Custom Reports Manager program transfers custom reports designed in Crystal Reports into PlantStar Panorama. It provides editing capabilities for these reports, deletion capabilities, and provides for the selection of report search criteria.
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