Reports

Here you will find evaluations of

  machines,

  orders,

  items,

  mould,

  maintenance orders and

  access to automatically exported reports

By left clicking on the name of a report (e.g. order  -> status) you start the evaluation of the data stored in the database and creation of the report. Before they can start, a dialog appears in which you can limit the period in which the evaluation is to take place and the designation of the objects for which the evaluation is to be displayed.

The icons of the report module have the following meaning:

	Press on the icon with the printer symbol to access the print dialog. In order to achieve satisfactory printing results, the program a 4.0 version (or later) of  'Adobe Acrobat Reader' must installed on the computer on which the Client was started. Furthermore, in the Windows environment variable 'PATH'  a reference to the path is required in which the program 'AcroRd32.exe' is to be found
	The data of the displayed report can be exported. To do this, select one of the following export formats. Crystal Reports (.rpt) Microsoft Word (.doc) Microsoft Excel (.xls) Rich Text Format (.rtf) Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
	Display exported reports automatically.

With the 'Search' function you determine in which path and under which designation the exported data are to be filed on the fixed disc. The format indication e.g. 'pdf'  is automatically added to the name of the file.

	The displayed report is updated.
	Backwards - display those reports (in the currently selected tab) which were displayed previously to the currently displayed report.
	Forwards - display those reports (in the currently selected tab) which were displayed subsequently to the currently displayed report.
	A new tab is created.

Use the symbol bar at the top of the screen to navigate the functions in a report.

The reports are displayed page-wise. You can page backwards and forwards or jump to the start or end of the report. When reports have many pages you can interrupt the paging process by clicking on the button with the square symbol.

In the list on the far right you select how large the display of the report is to be. The values are in [%] of the original page format.

On the left of the displayed report in the lower section of the column the active selection criteria are displayed. If you change the criteria, the new report will be displayed after generating an "Update". You can return to the previous display by pressing the "Backwards" button.

Machine-related reports

• Production indicator figures,

• Status changes,

• the degree of efficiency,

• downtimes,

• standard alarms and

• shift reports

are logged using the data transferred to the machine statuses. Before the selected report is displayed, a selection dialog appears, in which you can select the time range and the machines. If you call up a report from the machine hall, the selection dialog contains the pre-selected machines. If you call up a report in the Report module, your machine selection is saved, and repeated again in the next call-up. The option  'with disused machines' enables you to include disused machines in the evaluation.

Attention: The outputs to moulds which have been protocolled at manual work stations are of course only as good as the information input.

To display the evaluations the Client changes to the 'Report' module. To return to the machine hall simply click on the flag of the machine hall.

Protocols (logs) are available for the following time grids:
 

Every status of the machine is classed by a 'Status-code'. The following 'Status-codes' are defined at ALS:

The times with the status-codes are assigned to the corresponding production resources account (PRA).

Status

How long the selected machines were in the following operating statuses is displayed in  [hours:minutes], depending on the time grid:

In the 'Progression' report you can see the current progression of the production of a machine. The start and duration of a status change are displayed as well as detailed information on the cause(s) of standstill.

As an option, your ALS system can be equipped with an archive database to which detailed data of the ALS can be outsourced when the specified dwell time of this data in the production database is exceeded. If no archive database is installed, this data will be deleted when the time has expired. In the selection dialog of the 'Machine -> Status -> Progression' report you must then specify whether the information is to be taken from the production database or the archive database (only if applicable). The date given indicates up to which date information is available in the archive database.

Degree of efficiency

The degree of efficiency of the selected machines is displayed for the required period.

The ratio of the use of a machine represents the degree of efficiency.

Definition of the degree of efficiency:

Formula:

N = Production duration / planned production duration

    = HNZ  / (HNZ + BMK_02 + ... + BMK_10)

    = BH / ( BH + BN + BST + BSO + BSP + BSX +AEP + AEN + RUE + ANF)

Legende:

The degree of efficiency is derived from the 4 defined machine statuses AUTOMATIC, ALARM, MANUAL, and MAIN SWITCH OFF.

Downtimes

Logging of error causes leading to machine standstill.

Here you will find an evaluation of the error causes input in the "Host processor panel" in the machine. The display is always in [hours : minutes], in relation to the displayed period. The following error causes have been determined in ALS up till now.

You can define all max. 99 possible error causes in the database (see master data - administration of error causes).

Alarms

Standstill times which lead to machine alarms are documented.

You will find the alarm texts as they are displayed in the machine controller in the 'Current' view together with the assigned generalised alarm texts, both as a number code and in text form, and the status codes.

In the 'Shift' and 'Day' views you see how frequently the generalised alarms occurred and what standstill times resulted.

Shift reports

The shift report is displayed as a table with a histogram for production times.

The shift reports give you an overview of the machine running times, the  parts produced, the machine-related degree of efficiency, the number of alarms and standstills which occurred during a shift.

Orders

Order set-up plan

In the 'Order set-up plan' you will find a list of the orders which are to be set up. They are sorted in the order of their scheduled starting time. Information on the planned machine, material and item is also given together with the orders and their preceding orders.

Nominal / actual comparison

In the nominal/actual comparison the values of completed orders are displayed.

Order change

The "Order change" report tells you which follow-on orders are scheduled on the machine. The specified remaining run time for the active order corresponds to the time shown in the plan table i.e. the factory calendar is taken into account. 

'Track' refers to the lines assigned to a machine in the plan table. Orders can overlap chronologically inside one track. This happens e.g. when an order in the preparation level is being set up at the same time as another order is in production. A second "track" (line) is shown in the plan table, when an order is scheduled parallel to another order.

Items

The following item reports are available  

• Item production resources accounts,

• Total overview,  and

• Nominal/actual comparison.

The item reports are generated from the order data in which the items to be produced are specified. 

Production resources accounts

In the 'production resources accounts' you will find information on the time periods when the various  production resources accounts (PRA) have been booked for the items. 

Overall

For the 'Overall' report you can select one or more items.  All data logged in ALS on the items are evaluated. This report does not depend on whether the order data are still available.

Nominal/actual comparison

For the "nominal/actual comparison" report you enter a time period and the items you want information on. Item-related information will then be displayed on all orders which were already completed in the selected time period or were in production in this period and completed before the report was called up.

Data displayed on a "Collective order" only give information on the period during which the collective order itself was logged, because the sub orders were completed.

Mould-related reports

For the moulds, reports on the  

• PRA

• Actual values

• Total

• Alarms

• Cause of error

• and 'Mould availability'

are available in ALS.

Selection masks appear for selecting the reports. If you click on 'free input' next to 'mould' in the selection mask the selection list changes to a special combination field for the moulds. When you enter the first characters of the mould you are looking for, matching entries are displayed. You can mask a single character with '?' or a group of characters with the '*' place holder. With 'M*1' a report is created for all moulds beginning with 'M' and ending with '1'.  .

Note: In ALS no data are stored on combination moulds! Only data on the individual master moulds and inserts become recorded.

Note: The outputs to moulds which have been protocolled at manual work stations are of course only as good as the information input. Nonsensical mean cycles and production times are possible!

Attention to the tool provision report:
If orders in the Plantalfel have automatically shifted, this must be confirmed after becoming aware of them.  Otherwise, the old plan data is still output in the tool staging report.

Maintenance

Under Maintenance you will find evaluations on "overdue" and "completed" maintenance jobs of the 'Machine', 'Mould' and 'Periphery'  resources.

Automatically exported reports

Here a list of the reports is displayed which have been automatically exported in 'PDF' format. These reports can be :

displayed,

printed out, and

erased.

To display the reports exported in 'PDF' format, the program 'Acrobat® Reader' must be installed on the computer on which the ALS Client is running and in the environment variable 'PATH' the path in which the file 'AcroRd32.exe' is located must be defined. If you have changed the input in 'PATH' you must first restart the ALS-Client before the change is taken over.

The 'Job' for the automatic export of a reports is created under 'Service' -> 'Jobs'.