What Are Metrics?

Metrics are key values that you can track in your factories and machines to have a better understanding of their performance and health.

These key values are often referred to as key performance indicators. You can monitor metrics for a group of factories or for a specific factory.

Monitoring these metrics helps you identify and investigate any issues that may affect the performance of you factory. For example if the number of factories behind plan increases, you can identify which are the factories that are behind plan and then look at the metrics for the machines in that factory to understand which machine is causing the issue.

Your instance comes with a predefined set of metrics, but you can define your own metrics, and customize the existing ones. For more information on how to define your own metrics, see Define Your Own Metrics.

View Metrics in the Map View

In the Map view, the Metrics toolbar shows the values for all the factories that appear in the map. To view the metrics for more factories, zoom out until all the factories that you want to monitor appear in the map. If you want to see the values for just a group of factories, zoom in until you only see those factories in the map.

When you click the metrics value, the factoy icons in the map display the value of that metric for each factory or cluster of factories. See Monitor the Performance for a Group of Factories.

View Metrics for a Specific Factory

When you view a specific factory, the Metrics toolbar shows you the values for that factory. Use these metrics to identify the cause of your production issue. From the factory view you can locate the machine that is not performing as expected.

View Metrics for a Specific Machine

In the factory view you can click a specific machine to view the metrics for that machine and understand what caused the production issue.