Introduction

The Company Settings page allows you view your company information as it appears in MachineMetrics and adjust company wide defaults and settings. 

Topics covered in this article

This article includes the following topics:

• Accessing the Company Settings Page
• Company Page Layout and Functions
  • Company Details
  • System Settings
    • Region
    • Default Dashboard View
    • Custom Job Name Display (Optional)
    • Cycle Time Entry
    • Operator Tracking
    • Default Metric Goals

Accessing the Company Settings Page Back to Topics

To navigate to the Company Settings page, click Settings in the sidebar navigation and select Company from the list.

Company Page Layout and Functions Back to Topics

The Company Settings page is divided into the following sections.

Company Details Back to Topics

In the Company Details section, you can edit your company name and address as they will appear within MachineMetrics. You can also view the time zone and start of day that were configured by MachineMetrics for your implementation. In most implementations, the entry in the Start of Day field should match the start of your first shift.

IMPORTANT! The Start of Day and Time Zone entries displayed in the Company Information section are what MachineMetrics uses to determine the overall boundaries for your shift logic. If you find that either the Start of Day or Time Zone entry is incorrect, contact your MachineMetrics Customer Success Manager immediately for assistance.

System Settings

Region

The region associated with your company is the current country location. Use the drop-down to select the appropriate company associated with the factory shop MachineMetrics Account. 

Default Dashboard View

The default dashboard view allows you to select the Dashboard view that displays when you first load  your Current Shift Dashboard. The Dashboard options include the following:

• OEE
• Parts Goal
• Utilization
• Downtime

Custom Job Name Display (Optional)

This setting controls how job names are displayed in MachineMetrics. You can set up your job name format to conform with whatever information an operator needs to know to recognize a job and what makes sense for your operations team.

There are a few rules to consider when adding to this field: 

• Add field within brackets { } 
• Text should match text in the CSV file
• Multiple values should be separated by semicolons

For example: 

Name: {name}; Part: {part}; Op: {operation}; Lot{lot}

Cycle Time Entry

Your Cycle Time Entry selection determines how MachineMetrics translates cycle time entered by users for jobs. The MachineMetrics options for Cycle Time Entry include:

Single Part Duration: Treat cycle time entered by users as the average time to produce a single part during each cycle. This is the most common selection. Our users will use this for system displays the amount of time it takes to complete a part. This is often in minutes. An example would be a complex part taking 120 minutes to machine in a single operation

Full Cycle Duration: Treat cycle time entered by users as the total time to complete all parts in eachoperational cycle. Is used when multiple parts are ran in a cycle. While Single Part Duration could work, the Full Cycle Duration simplifies the process and looks at the cycle as a whole for time standards. An example would be a horizontal CNC mill producing 10 parts on a tombstone taking 10 minutes to complete the cycle. That is 1 minute per part. It is also 10 minutes per cycle. There is flexibility in how those standards function.

Parts Per Hour: Treat cycle time entered by users as the average number of parts produced in an hour. This is often the preferred cycle time setting for manufacturers with very high volume jobs. Is used when there are many parts produced (like seconds per part) and the customer has rate standards like Parts Per Hour. This is common in Swiss CNC shops producing thousands of parts

Note: Your ideal cycle time that is used in your Job Import CSV file should always be single-part duration data regardless of the Cycle Time Entry setting you select in this field. If you select Full Cycle Duration or Parts Per Hour here, MachineMetrics will make the necessary adjustments and calculations based on the Single Part Duration for your ideal cycle time that you have in your Job Import CSV. 

Operator Tracking

Enable Operator Tracking to take advantage of Operator driven insights.

Learn more here.

Default Metric Goals

Configure the default warning and failure thresholds for metric goals throughout MachineMetrics. The defaults are used to drive the color context of the data on screen in various places such as Current Shift Dashboard and Report Builder. These values will be used as the defaults for new machines and jobs but can be overridden on an individual basis in the machine or job itself.

The settings you enter in these fields should be determined in consultation with your MachineMetrics Customer Success Manager and based on your best estimate of performance expectations. These settings can and should be adjusted based on actual observed performance. For example, if all your machines are always red, your thresholds are probably too high, while if all machines are always green (operating at or above your performance goal), the performance thresholds may be too low.

Note: These are the default performance goal threshold settings. Performance goals configured for a specific job or machine will override the performance goals set in these fields.