Cockpit

Overview:

The Cockpit in Busroot is a central, real-time dashboard designed for operational managers, supervisors, and shop-floor staff. It provides a unified view of current machine performance, production status, and efficiency indicators across the factory floor. The Cockpit helps users instantly identify issues, monitor output, and track trends for better, data-driven decision-making. Its value lies in enabling rapid responses to downtime and ensuring optimal productivity by making critical manufacturing metrics visible at a glance.

Use Cases:

• Production Supervisor: Needs to monitor all machines live to detect stoppages and react quickly to issues, ensuring shift targets are met.

• Quality Engineer: Wants instant feedback on performance dips to investigate causes and limit defective output during a shift.

• Operations Manager: Uses Cockpit analytics to spot recurring downtime, review productivity, and optimise staffing or maintenance schedules.

Functionality:

• Live Monitoring Panel: Shows real-time status of every machine or station, indicating output, active/inactive states, and any detected faults.

• Progress Charts: Visual graphs updating constantly with current totals, progress towards targets, and historical trends by day, shift, or line.

• OEE Metrics: Overall Equipment Effectiveness is calculated and visualised for instant performance benchmarking. Includes asset utilisation, downtime causes, and line speed monitoring controls.

• Filtering/Grouping: Users can group or filter views by station, product/SKU, line, or shift for targeted analysis.

Data Setup:

• Ensure all stations and machines are registered in the system.

• Input plant details, stations, SKU's and shifts under Admin > Management.

Key Formulas:

• Live performance metrics often use direct output counters and "actual vs. target" calculations.

• Ensure cycle time and line speed targets are configured for each SKU/station.

ANALYSING THE COCKPIT

Highlighted in green is an example of a station that is running. Capping 2 is displaying an active schedule. With the scheduling information and real-time progress displayed and progress bar sitting alongside.

Below, you can see the information for the next schedule that is planned.

To the right of that are the production metrics for the last 60 minutes.

Finally, in the top right corner you have quick select buttons to take you to different pages of Busroot.