Introduction
The Alarms application presents the summary data on all alarms received from all machines in the MachineMetrics environment over a selected date and time range. From the "all alarms" page, users can sort, filter, and search for specific alarms, access more detail for individual alarms, and create workflows for those alarms. This article explains the information and functions provided by the Alarms application.
Topics covered in this article
This article contains the following topics:
- Accessing the Alarms Application
- Alarms Page Layout and Functions
- Alarm Summary Page
- Machine Alarms Page
Accessing the Alarms Application
To access Alarms from the Reports Landing page, do the following:
- Login to MachineMetrics. The default view of the Machines List will open.
- Click on Reports in the main navigation
- Select the Alarms report tile as shown
Alarms Page Layout and Functions
The following figure shows an example of the Alarms application page. The following sections describe the layout of key information and functions provided by the Alarms application.
Page View Functions
The following figure highlights the functions for modifying the Alarms application page view.
Application Menu
Click this menu to change from the Alarms page to one of the other Reports.
Alarm Sorting
The alarms displayed on the Alarms application page can be sorted by direction in ascending or descending order by the following criteria:
- Count: Total number of alarm event occurrences.
- Duration: Length of time all machines spent in the alarm condition.
- Latest Occurrence: Date and time of the most recent occurrence of the alarm condition.
- Native Code: Alarm code identifier received from the machine itself.
Alarm Filtering
The alarms displayed on the Alarms application page can be filtered to show or hide alarms based on the following alarm criteria:
- Status: Show alarms based on alarm status (Warning or Fault), or show alarms at both statuses.
- Date/Time: Show alarms that occurred within the selected date and time range.
- Native Code or Message: Show alarms only if the text entered in the Native Code or Message search field is also in the machine alarm code identifier or in the associated alarm message.
Alarm Information Area
The alarm information area lists all alarms received from the machines in the environment that meet the selected alarm filtering criteria. The following figure highlights the information and functions provided in the alarm information area, which is described in the following sections.
Alarm Status Indicator
The alarm status is indicated by the colored dot to the left of the native code and message. The color of the dot indicates alarm status as follows:
- Orange Dot: Warning alarm status.
- Red Dot: Fault alarm status.
Native Code & Message
To the right of the alarm status indicator are the machine's native code and message.
- Native Code: The "native code" is the alarm code identifier provided by the machine through the MachineMetrics integration. In the figure above, "EX1121" is highlighted as an example of a native code.
- Message: The "message" is any alarm message that the machine provides along with the native code. In the figure above, "SQ311 SIG. HAS DISCONNECTED" is highlighted as an example of an alarm message.
Most Recent/Oldest
Listed below the native code and message is the length of time that has passed since the most recent and oldest occurrences of the alarm event reported by all machines that experienced the alarm.
Alarm Totals
The alarm totals area (highlighted in the above figure) of the Alarms application page provides the following information:
- Events: Total number of alarm event occurrences reported by all machines.
- Machines: Total number of machines that experienced the alarm event.
- Duration: Total length of time of all alarm events.
Ellipse (---) Menu
The ellipse menu (---) allows you to open the alarm summary page for an individual alarm or create a new Workflow for the alarm.
Alarm Summary Page
The alarm summary page is accessible from the Alarms application page and provides the following information and functions for individual alarms:
- Alarm event and duration totals by date
- List of machines that experienced the alarm, including the total number of events and total duration, with the ability to access all Machines applications for the machine
- Ability to create a Workflow for the alarm
The following figure shows an example of the alarm summary page for an "EX1078 - DOOR OPEN" alarm.
Accessing the Alarm Summary Page
You can access the alarm summary page by clicking on the individual alarm entry in the Alarms application page or by clicking the Summary item in the Alarms application ellipse menu.
Creating a Workflow for the Alarm
Click the Create Workflow button to open the Workflows application and create a workflow for the alarm. See Using Workflows to Manage Machine Events for instructions on using the Workflows application.
Viewing Alarm Events and Alarm Duration by Date
The alarm summary page provides an interactive bar chart that allows you to view and compare the alarm events and alarm duration by date.
Alarm Events by Date
To view alarm events by date, do the following:
- Select the date/time range you want the bar chart to display.
- Ensure that the Events button below the bar chart is selected. When the Events button is selected, the height of each bar will reflect the relative quantity of alarm events on each day in the date range.
- To view the specific number of alarm events that occurred on a particular day, hover your mouse cursor over that day. The hover text will display the date that the bar represents and the number of alarm events that occurred on that day.
The following figure highlights the functionality described in the above procedure.
Alarm Duration by Date
To view alarm duration by date, do the following:
- Select the date/time range you want the bar chart to display.
- Ensure that the Duration button below the bar chart is selected. When the Duration button is selected, the height of each bar will reflect the relative length of time that the alarm occurred on each day in the date range.
- To view the total duration of the alarm events that occurred on a particular day, hover your mouse cursor over that day. The hover text will display the date that the bar represents and the total duration of alarm events that occurred on that day.
The following figure highlights the functionality described in the above procedure.
Viewing Alarm Events and Alarm Duration by Machine
Below the Events/Duration bar chart, the alarm summary page provides a table listing all machines that experienced the alarm during the selected date range. For each machine, the table provides the following:
- Total number of machines that experienced the alarm during the selected date/time range
- Machine Names
- Most recent and oldest alarm events that occurred on the machine
- Total number of alarm events on each machine
- The total duration of alarm events that occurred on each machine
- Ellipse (---) application menu
The following figure shows the Machines table with the above information highlighted.
Machines Table Ellipse Application Menu
The ellipse (---) menu on the right side of the Machines table provides access to MachineMetrics applications with data specific to that machine such as the machine alarms page.
Machine Alarms Page
The Alarms page for an individual machine presents all alarms that the selected machine has experienced up to the specified date and time.
Accessing the Machine Alarms Page
You can access the Alarms page for an individual machine from the following locations:
- Through the ellipse application menu in the Machines table on the alarm Summary page
- Through the menus in any of the Machines applications
- Through the machine Overview page
Page View Functions
The following figure highlights the functions for modifying the Alarms application page view.
Machine Menu
Click this menu to change to the Alarms page of one of the other machines in the environment, or to go to the All Machines page of the Machines module.
Alarm State Filter
Use this menu to display all alarms, or filter the alarms to show only Warning or Fault state alarms.
Date/Time Limit
This field is used to set the date and time for the latest alarms you want to see. To set the date/time limit, click the time field to open a pull-down menu to select the time, find and click the desired date, and click the Apply button to change the page view. If the settings in the example figure below were applied, no alarm events would display in the machine Alarms page that occurred after 9/12/2019 at 1:00 PM.
Machine Code Search
Enter a machine native code in this field and click the search button to see only alarm events with that code.
Machine Alarm Export to CSV File
You can export all the machine alarms for a specific date range to a comma-separated value (CSV) file as follows:
- Click the Export button in the top right of the machine Alarms page.
- In the Export Alarms calendar dialog, select the desired date range and click the Prepare CSV button.
- The system will process the request, display the selected Start/End dates and indicate that your download is ready.
- Click the Download CSV button to download the alarm export CSV file to your system, and save the file in your desired location. You can also click the Select New Date Range button if you want to adjust the date range before downloading the CSV file.
- Once downloaded, you can open the file in any application capable of reading CSV files, such as Microsoft Excel. The CSV file will provide the following alarm data fields:
- Asset: The name of the machine in MachineMetrics.
- Native Code: The alarm identifier as it is known in the machine.
- Start: The start time of the alarm event (to the millisecond) in YYYY-MM-DD[T]HH:MM:SS.000[Z] format.
- End: The end time of the alarm event (to the millisecond) in YYYY-MM-DD[T]HH:MM:SS.000[Z] format.
- Duration (ms): The length of time in milliseconds that the alarm event existed in the machine.
- Message: The alarm message associated with the Native Code by the machine.
- State: The machine state indicated by the alarm (Warning or Fault).
The following figure shows an example of the machine alarm export CSV file open in Excel.
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