Production Tracking

Measure and report production output per station, per SKU.

It goes without saying, production output is fundamental to any manufacturing operation.

Busroot can track production in 1 of 3 ways:

• Direct sensing of produced units from a machine signal (i.e. light gate or actuator).

• Inferred production output from a measured speed or rate (i.e. conveyor speed or motor energy consumption).

• Production declared manually by operators via a tablet interface.

• [Coming soon... Barcode-based production tracking]

Busroot will reference the current production schedule of the station to understand the SKU produced. If a production schedule is not available, it will be tracked under a special 'UNKNOWN' SKU code. To understand more about how production scheduling works, please see the Scheduling section.

Production Quality

Busroot is capable of also tracking bad production. This allows for accurate output tracking and cycle time analysis, while being able to exclude these production counts from reports and calculate OEE quality.

Batch Counts

It is possible to configure at a SKU level a batch size that acts as a multiplier for production complete signal. This allows for the batch size to change based on which product is being produced.

Tablet operators will be told the batch size via the interface.

Production Reporting

Production counts can be retrieved in various ways through the user interface:

• By Station

• By SKU

• Weekly Production counts.

Or downloaded in CSV format, or retrieved via the API.

FAQs

How can I configure inferred production counts from a process speed or rate?V

First, the process speed or rate should be fed into Busroot via the speed signal.

Next, for that station a 'Speed to Production Ratio' should be configured. Any speed signals received during a 1 minute window will be averaged and then multiplied by this ratio to give the production quantity for that 1 minute window.

e.g. if sensor can detect a line's movement speed with a value between 0 and 1 (1 being full speed, 0 being stopped), and we know at full speed the line is moving at 10 meters per minute, we can set a 'Speed to Production Ratio' of 10. Now, if the line continually moved at full speed, the average speed will be 1, and Busroot will record a production quantity of 10.

If the speed is negative, production quantity will always be 0.