Centerlines

Background

The limits for a numeric procedure are one-dimensional. Always the same. Yet we know this is not the reality on shopfloors.

Weights can be different per product, mechanical heights can vary between SKU's, pressures might alter between products or speeds can be different per line... That's why you can also configure

The procedure (what needs to be done, how this needs to be done) remains the same. What is different are the validation rules.

Equipment

Dependencies of limits to equipment can be configured by selecting equipment in the dropdown menu and clicking on to define limits that are equipment specific.

Configuring this for even more equipment can be done, by additionally clicking on "Add rule". This ensures the limits will be correctly validated for each equipment.

Eg "Measure the pressure" as a procedure can now result in different limits per equipment

In the below example, we created three additional rules, ensuring we have four different validation schemes for the four packing lines

Product Parameters

One can also differentiate limits based on production orders. To do this, one needs to group production orders in groups using product parameters.

eg product parameter Size or Flavour as a grouping of all SKU (stock keeping units) with the same size or flavour.

Prerequisites

• Product parameter - Parameters to be configured via Product › Product parameters

• Parameter values - Can be created in two ways

  • Automatically: Fill in the external ID that is used in the integration with your ERP and all values will be transferred properly from your source systrem

  • Manually: Parameters values need to be configured by the Maecos team (for now)

Set up

Configuration happens in the same was as one needs to do with equipment. First, select the product parameter in the list of variables and secondly, put in limits for the selected value of the parameter:

To demonstrate this, we use the following example checklist:

When you have an active checklist, the procedures linked to a parameter will request which production order need to be used.

The selected production order will be shown on top of the checklist as a reference.

When more production orders are being used (eg when planned / repetitive checks need to be carried out throughout the entire shift and multiple orders are being produced that shift), all of them will be visualised on top of the checklist. They will be referenced with a number in the check fields.

Matrix

Finally, one can also create a combination of equipment and product parameters.