Shifts marked red in the Plant Summary and in the Shift Overview point out erroneous shift data. Even so, up to now clicking on such a red shift could lead to no faulty entries being displayed in the classical Production Statistics interface if the entry type concerned was being hidden at that moment.

Now all erroneous entries are displayed no matter if their type is set to "View" or not.

In order to have nice shift starting times in the statistics some users change the actual shift start to an even time (e.g. 4:52 to 5:00). If any events have occurred in the time span between real and made-up start time (e.g. a quality check at 4:56) they unintentionally get to be placed outside the shift.

PC-Topp reacts to this by creating an extra pseudo shift with normal shift length which contains these lost events. As this pseudo shift totally falsifies the working time of the day concerned it must be corrected by all means.

To make sure that you notice those pseudo shifts they are now highlighted in the Shift Overview page by displaying them in brackets.

Key Figures for All Machines on One Screen

The one box per machine layout allows presenting a large amount of data in a concentrated yet clearly organized way which makes it easy to quickly scan the page. Each machine box contains the following information:

• Current Job
  For both the corrugator and the conversion machines a color-coded excerpt from the production plan is shown. The jobs displayed are the current one along with the last finished and the next to come. For the conversion machines start time, order number, customer name and scheduled quantity are displayed, for the corrugator(s) start time, program number, board grade, roll size and scheduled meters.
• Shift Data
  Up to three shifts per machine can be displayed. You see the shift date and code plus information on performance, average speed and total produced quantity.
• Progress of Current Job
  The foot of the machine box contains the data from view 2 of the small Plant Overview (on the PC-Topp.NET menu pages), i.e. produced quantity, scheduled quantity and machine speed, plus a convenient addition: The speed graph icon takes you to the performance diagrams for the machine.

Convenient Access to Statistics Data by Machine

The shifts displayed in the machine boxes are underlined - they link to the DOS program "Edit Production Statistics" for this machine which starts with the correct shift already selected. This way, you have easy access to the shift data for modifying (reserved for planners, supervisors, and administrators; all other users get a read-only version).

Moreover, shift date and shift code turn red if something is wrong with the statistics data of the displayed shift, e.g. overlapping corrugator runs, orders and downtimes starting or ending between shifts, or shifts lacking a shift code. Thanks to the highlighting you can easily determine exactly where the error occurred.

Direct Access to All Shifts on Selected Machine

Another useful feature is provided by the underlined caption "Shift" in the machine's shift header: A click on it displays an overview of all available shifts on the selected machine. By clicking on the desired shift, you can call up the shift data. Planners, supervisors, and administrators can view and modify them; all other users have read-only access.

Here, too, a red shift signals erroneous shift data. From here, you can navigate to earlier months or different machines via the toolbox.

Decide for Yourself Which Machines to Display

The toolbox of the Plant Summary allows toggling between displaying all machines (default setting) and the so called "Main Machines". This is a group of machines that can be freely configured and adapted to user needs by administrators via the toolbox link "Edit Machine Table".

If you move your mouse over a downtime alert in view 2 of the small Plant Overview a Tooltip shows you how much has been produced and scheduled on the machine in question. In previous versions the downtime message kept you from seeing how far production had progressed resp. how much of it still had to be produced.

The feature is available in the Plant Summary and in the Graphical Plant Overview, too. It can be viewed on http://demo.pctopp.com.

An additional view for production times of the current shift has been added to the small Plant Overview on the PC-Topp.NET main page. Besides, the views have been reorganized to show more production information in a clearly structured way.

View 1, 2 and 3 show data of the current order, while view 4 and 5 give information on the current shift.

Current Order Data in View 1-3

While view 1 gives the current order's number and customer name, view 2 shows its production progress in terms of currently produced quantity, scheduled quantity, and speed.

View 3 displays performance figures * for setup, run and total production time of the current order.

Current Shift Data in View 4-5

View 4 displays performance *, average speed and totals of the current shift.
The new fifth view shows production times for the current shift, i. e. the total setup time, downtime and run time plus the work time. Additionally, a move of the mouse over the figures displays the percentage of the work time which they make up in white on a blue background.

For a quick overview of the five views see the table below:

View		Subject	Corrugator	Conversion
1		Current Order	Program number Board grade Roll size	Order number Customer name
2		Progress of current order	Current production (lineal meters) Scheduled meters Current speed (m / min)	Current production (sheets) Scheduled sheets Current speed (sheets / h)
3		Performance for current order	Performance during runtime Total Performance for this order (The corrugator performance figures will be available soon.)	Performance during setup Performance during runtime Total Performance for this order
4		Production figures for current shift	Performance * Average speed (m / min) Total produced lineal meters	Performance * Average speed (sheets / h) Total produced sheets
5		Production times of current shift	Total downtime Total run time Work time	Total setup time Total downtime Total run time Work time