Use Connected Equipment to Automate Production
Enterprises and manufacturing plants often use smart equipment that can generate machine events, operational data, and alerts.
Machine events may signal the following:
- Operation Execution: Indicates the start of a work order operation or the stopping of a work order operation.
- Quantity Report: Includes production quantities, such as completed and rejected quantities for a work order operation at a workstation. Also includes inspection results that contain values for the inspection characteristics.
- Asset Fault: Indicates a fault generated by a connected equipment.
- Asset Status: Indicates the status of the connected equipment, such as idle, in-use, or down.
You can use the data from smart equipment to automate tasks in Manufacturing, such as automatically updating production quantities, performing quality inspections, and generating exceptions and maintenance work orders for faults and errors.
See Set Up Connected Assets and Equipment in the Implementation Guide for more information on setting up connected equipment.
Complete Work Order Operations Automatically
If the connected equipment for a workstation is configured to send an automatic execution start event, then the operator can see the execution in progress status at the workstation.
The fields for reporting completions, rejections, and inspections are hidden by default. The Production Summary section is automatically updated with the quantities reported by the equipment. The operator can click Report Quantity to manually report any quantities, if necessary.
Execution stops when the connected equipment sends a stop event. The operator can also manually click Stop to stop the execution.
Production supervisors can use the Operational Events task to filter and review operational events received from equipment.
Use Automatic Inspections During Production Execution
If your manufacturing process has connected equipment that can provide readings for the inspection characteristics, you can automate data collection by recording the data from associated sensors in the connected equipment. You can further automate execution to complete or reject the item based on the inspection results.
When an operator executes production, the Production Summary section is automatically updated with the post-inspection completed and rejected quantities reported by the equipment.
The production supervisor can also view the inspection results from the work order transaction history.
Create Automatic Production Exceptions for Equipment Related Events
Connected equipment can use operational rules to automatically create production exceptions in response to equipment fault. These automatic exceptions are visible both to the operator and the supervisor. If the operational rules are configured to create a maintenance request, then a maintenance work order is automatically created in Oracle Maintenance without any intervention from the operator or supervisor.
Update Workstation Statuses Automatically in Response to Equipment Related Events
Operational rules can be configured to automatically set the workstation status in response to equipment events or operational process data crossing the threshold values. The workstation status is automatically updated along with the reason code. For example, your workstation may automatically go down for preventive maintenance if the operating temperature exceeds the specified value.