Stations

Group

Stations are grouped for ease of administration and to be able to share certain common configurations, such as shift patterns.

Shift Pattern

Shift patterns are a collection of individual shifts across 1 full week. These can be assigned to either a station group, or individual shifts.

Performance Mode

The performance mode of a station is used as a fallback when the scheduled SKU has not be configured with an explicit performance mode.

Cycle Time

The number of seconds each unit takes to produce.

Units per Minute/Hour

The number of units that should be produced in 1 minute or hour.

Minimum Cycle Time

It may be required to filter out repeated production complete signals. This can be due to common situations such as multiple pulses being sent for 1 unit of production.

The minimum cycle time ensure that multiple production complete signals received within this time are only ever counted once.

Speed

The speed signal is used to measure a process speed as a continuous rate, rather than discreet units of production.

Scale and Offset

Often we want the speed to correlate to a specific unit of measurement. For each, we may measure speed as a percentage of maximum speed (i.e. 0 to 1 = off to full-speed), but want it represented in Busroot as meters per second.

In this case, if we know that full speed for this process is 20m/s, we can scale the speed so that a signal of 1 (full-speed) is scaled to a value of 20m/s. A signal of 0.25 would be scaled to value of 5m/s, and so on.

Speed to Production Ratio

In Busroot, we have the option to be able to convert a continuous rate into discreet units of production.

Allow Manual Production

This enables the production entry module on the tablet, allowing operators to count production manually.

Allow Interruption Mode

Enable the Interruption tool. The tool provides an intuitive way to capture downtime from human-lead manufacturing processes where digital data capture is impossible.

Allow Schedule Cut Short

This enables a button in Schedule Management, to allow a schedule to be ended early. The remaining quantity will be added to a new schedule with the same Work Order Ref.

Allow Ad Hoc Schedules

This allows operators with tablets to start new schedules directly from the tablet.