Datonis Factory

Getting started with Datonis Factory

Once the device data is available on Datonis platform the factory application gives business context to this data and helps the end user to make data driven informed operational decisions and also provides actionable insights. Various aspects of operations like production, productivity (OEE), quality, condition of critical machine parameters, process capability and energy can be monitored, measured and improved using this application. Datonis Factory allows you to:

• Define, configure and manage Factory master data
• Visualize LIVE factory production and condition based monitoring (CBM) data
• Do daily workcenter level planning, scheduling and production booking
• Configure alerts and notifications, daily emails
• Reports - Daily Production Insights
• Reports - Workcenter Analysis
• Reports - Loss Analysis
• Reports - Tools Maintenance
• Business Intelligence
• Factory Data as a Service

Define, configure and manage Factory master data

Datonis Factory allows the user to configure the digital factory in sync with the physical world. Master data is categorized into Organizational, Production, CBM and Part Quality.

• Organizational Data - Users can define plant, department, cell, workcenter, shifts, shift plans. Plant - Department - Cell - Workcenter hierarchy is also defined here which can have a single - many relationship as we move from plant to workcenters. Workcenter association with Datonis THING is also established and configuration for productivity and CBM parameters can be done. Different options like automatic production booking, downtime reason association, operator association, idle popup time and maintenance thresholds can be defined. In CBM configuration window, parameters can be associated with workcenter along with their expected values, lower and upper control limits amongst others. Defining parameters in CBM data is a pre-requisite to workcenter - parameter association. Works calendar can be setup in the SHIFT PLANS menu along with planned downtimes if any.
• Production Data - Users can define and configure the part, production routing, tools, downtime reason and quality rejection code in this section. Defining parts and workcenters are a pre-requisite to defining production routings. Cycle times for part - operation - workcenter combination are defined along with online content of work (typically loading and unloading), machine controlled time and offline content of work (manual work offline to machine auto cycle). This standard cycle time data is used for establishing the P (productivity) parameter of OEE calculation. Downtime reason codes (typically TPM losses) which become available in the application for booking planned and unplanned downtimes are defined and configured here. Quality rejection codes which are also booked from the application for classifying the rejections are defined in this section.
• CBM Data - Critical machine parameters like temperature, pressure, vibration, tension, etc. are defined and configured here. These parameters can be classified based on criticality and TPM classifier for more focused actionable viewing in the application. Different machine failure modes are also defined here which can be than used in the application to book actual machine failures.
• Part Quality Data - Part quality metrics for part - operation combination are defined here. Metrics like dimensions, weight, etc. which are measured and tested online for every part produced on the line can be defined here for establishing capability of the process.

Visualize LIVE factory production and condition based monitoring (CBM) data

Datonis Factory application allows the business user to get a almost real time LIVE dashboard view of operations data from production and condition based monitoring perspective.

• Live Production Dashboard - Production, elapsed time, unplanned downtime and uptime in different workcenters for a particular configured cell along with productive and unproductive time slots, since beginning of shit are displayed here. User can click on the relevant workcenter to fetch next level of operational metrics of that workcenter.
• Live CBM Dashboard - Actual machine parameter values since beginning of shift in a SPC chart (actual vis-a-vis control and warning limits) for critical parameters of workcenters in the selected cell are displayed here. Number of points outside control limits are also displayed. User can click on the relevant workcenter to fetch next level of CBM metrics for different paramters of that workcenter.

Do daily workcenter level planning, scheduling and production booking

The INPUTS menu in Datonis Factory application allows business user to upload / create daily plan at workcenter level. Workorder number, part, operation, workcenter and planned quantity in the desired sequence in a production shift can be defined. Actual performance of the operations against this daily plan is then monitored. This menu also allows manual / automatic booking of production against the productive slots created in the application. Manual / automatic entry of quality rejects along with the quality rejection codes can also be defined in this menu.

Configure alerts and notifications, daily emails

The business user can configure production and CBM based alerts for critical workcenters and parameters, so as to alert the operations management for major deviations in operational performance parameters. Notifications can send be via email and SMS. Combination alerts can be setup for multiple CBM paramters. Daily production and CBM performance email can be setup for sending relevant operational details on email.

• Production Emails for Daily reports can be set at desired times for the end users so that one can get a quick overview of a particular Workcenter or Cell in one consolidated report over the email. For ex: A report can be scheduled daily at 8.30 AM showcasing previous day’s production insights in your email. This can be configured based one the frequency user wants to set.
• Production/CBM alerts will be configured for giving the end user notifications in form of Email or SMS over phone for different Alert Rule conditions. For production, this includes alerts for idle time greater than a specified time or production rate slower than a specified rate. For CBM alerts, notifications may be set for a range of values, say a component temperature is below or above a specified value.

Analyze production and CBM data at work center level

Now that you have your thing connected and sending data and alerts to Datonis, you would want to manage them. There are several things that you can do to manage your things.

• Live Dashboard for Production data: Live status of all machines in a cell for current shift are displayed here. Here user can see the idle and productive slots, time elapsed from the start of the shift, production qty, down time and up time.
• Live Dashboard for Condition Based Monitoring Data: Live status of all the machines in terms of its criticality parameters is shown here. This give the real time data view of Critical workcenter Parameters.
• Daily Production Insight for Factory data: Daily Production Insights: User can see the daily production insights of the cell. User can also see the comparison of current day data with the moving average performance. One can also download the data in csv file.

Factory Data as a Service

The Datonis Application API is a fully RESTful JSON based API that can be used to interact with the Datonis platform. Everything that can be achieved using the Datons UI and more can be achieved using the Datonis Application API.

The API can be used for the following purposes.

• As a command line interface (CLI) instead of using the Datonis UI.
• Building custom web and mobile applications for your Things.
• Integrating your thing data with other software systems

We are currently at version 3 of the API. Datonis will maintain backward compatibility to the last major version of the API which is version 2 which is now deprecated.

Learn more about the Datonis Application API