A "Machine" instance is configured in MachineMetrics to support each physical machine in your shop that is part of your MachineMetrics account. The 'Machines' page in the Settings module allows you to view and manage the configuration settings for all the machines in your MachineMetrics environment.

Article Topics

This article includes the following topics:

• Accessing the Machines Page in Settings
• Machines Page Layout
• Machines Section Layout and Functions
  • Machines Section Layout
  • Machines Section Functions
  • Adding a Machine
  • Viewing/Managing Machine Configuration Settings 
    • Integration - Machine Details
    • Integration - Data Sources
    • Utilization Goals
    • Downtime Goals
    • Notifications
      
      • Creating Utilization Notifications
      •  Creating Downtime Notifications
• Groups
  • Choosing Machine Group Criteria
  • Creating Machine Groups
• Gateways

Accessing the Machines Page Back to Topics

To navigate to the 'Machines' page, click the Settings module menu item in MachineMetrics and select Machines from the application pull-down menu as shown below. 

Machines Page Layout Back to Topics

The Machines page is divided into the following functional sections:

• Machines
• Groups
• Gateways

Machines Section Layout and Functions Back to Topics

The Machines section of the Machines page displays the machines configured in MachineMetrics for the machines in the environment and provides the functionality to view and manage the detailed configuration settings for each machine. 

Machines Section Layout Back to Topics

The Machines section lists the machines configured in MachineMetrics corresponding to the machines in your environment in a table with the following information:

• Name: Name assigned to the machine in MachineMetrics.
• Gateway: Network name of the MachineMetrics IP network gateway used by the machine.
• Address: Network IP address of the network adapter used by the machine. 
• Integration Type: The type of data source provider that the machine uses and that MachineMetrics is integrated with to receive machine data. If you are uncertain what data source your machine is using, please reach out directly to your Customer Success Manager or contact support@machinemetrics.com 

Machines Section Functions Back to Topics

The Machines section provides the following functions:

• View/Manage Machine Configuration Settings: Click on any entry in the Machines table to view and manage the Machine configuration settings for that machine.
• Show Decommissioned: Click this button to display Machines that have been decommissioned along with the active machines.
• Reorder: Click this button if you want to change the order that the machines display in MachineMetrics Dashboards. By default, machines display alphanumerically by name. When you click this button, the function of the Machines table will change to allow you to click and drag the machine entries and change their order.
• Add Machine: Click this button to open the dialog with the functions required to add a new machine to your MachineMetrics environment. See Adding a Machine.

Adding a Machine Back to Topics

All machines installed and configured by the MachineMetrics integration team will display in the Machines section automatically as soon as they achieve connectivity. This article does not discuss the process and procedure for adding a new machine. Consult with your MachineMetrics Customer Success Manager if you want to add a machine without the assistance of the MachineMetrics integration team.

Viewing/Managing Machine Configuration Settings Back to Topics

To view and manage the configuration settings for a machine, click on that machine entry in the Machines section. This will launch the machine configuration settings dialog, which is divided into the following functional sections:

• General
• Integration - Machine Detail
• Integration - Data Sources
• Utilization Goals
• Downtime Goals
• Notifications

The top of the machine configuration setting dialog displays the name of the selected machine. You can click the < >arrows to the right of a functional section to expand and collapse the settings of that section. You must click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the dialog to save any changes you make to the machine configuration settings.

The following sections of this article describe the settings and functions available in each of the machine configuration settings dialog sections.

 General Back to Topics

The following figure shows an example of the General section of the machine configuration settings dialog:

The General section allows you to view and manage the following machine configuration settings:

• Name: This field allows you to view and change the name currently configured for the machine. You may want to do this to make the name more recognizable to your machine operators. 
• Category: This field allows you to view and change the type of machine that the machine supports. However, this setting should not need to be changed after the original integration. Any changes to this setting should be discussed with your MachineMetrics Customer Success Manager.
• Benchmarking: This field allows you to opt in or out on whether the performance data for the machine should be included in MachineMetrics reporting on benchmarking, or to indicate you are undecided.
  • See the Weekly Summary article for more information on the MachineMetrics Benchmarking report.
• Import ID: This field displays the programmatic ID used by MachineMetrics software for the associating the data generated by the machine.
• Notes: This field allows you to enter any descriptive notes that may help identify the machine in MachineMetrics reporting and data exports. 
• Warmup: This field allows you to list names of any programs that are part of the machine warm-up operations. When the machine is running the programs listed in this field, MachineMetrics will treat and display the machine as inactive. If more than one program is listed in this field, the program names must be separated by a semicolon (;). Configuration and use of this field should be discussed with your MachineMetrics Customer Success Manager.
• Program Metric: This field is used to display the program metric in the Dashboard. Configuration and use of this field should be discussed with your MachineMetrics Customer Success Manager.
• Added: This field displays the date and time that the integration was complete and the machine came online with the MachineMetrics environment.

'Automatic Start' has several available settings. If you select 'disabled' as your setting, you will need to rely on your operators to manually dispatch jobs from the Machine View or a dashboard. The other settings options all relate to automation and what program(s) should dictate job starts. Simply make sure that your automation settings are in alignment with your jobs. 

Integration - Machine Details Back to Topics

This section allows you to view the make, model, model year, and serial number of the machine supported by this machine, and the name of the MachineMetrics Edge Device (network gateway) that is used by the machine to communicate with the MachineMetrics system.

IMPORTANT! The settings in this section are populated as part of the MachineMetrics integration process when your environment is initially deployed, and should not need to be changed. Any changes you believe are required to the settings in this section should be discussed with your MachineMetrics Customer Success Manager before those changes are made. 

Integration - Data Sources Back to Topics

This section allows you to view the following:

• Integration Type: The type of data source provider that the machine uses and that the machine is integrated with to receive its machine data. If you are uncertain what data source your machine is using, please reach out directly to your customer success manager or contact support@machinemetrics.com. 
• Edge Device: The name of the MachineMetrics Edge Device (network gateway) that is used by the machine to communicate with the MachineMetrics system
• Address: The IP address of the machine network adapter.
• Config: Text entry field used to add any special configuration code required by the network adapter.
• Use Adapter Config (link): Clicking this link indicates to MachineMetrics software to use the configuration code provided by the network adapter.

Buttons for Add Source/Delete Source provide the capability to add a new machine data source  and to remove the old machine data source that is no longer used.

IMPORTANT! The settings in this section are populated as part of the MachineMetrics integration process when your environment is initially deployed, and should not need to be changed. Any changes you believe are required to the settings in this section should be discussed with your MachineMetrics Customer Success Manager before those changes are made. 

Utilization Goals Back to Topics

This section allows you to set machine utilization goals that are specific for the selected machine.

Setting Utilization Goals for a Specific Machine

You can enter utilization goals here as a number to indicate the goal percentage of the overall job or shift operating time that the selected machine should be operating in-cycle. Consider the following when setting utilization goals in this section:

• The settings in this section for the selected machine will override the default utilization goal settings that are configured for your overall MachineMetrics system in the Dashboard section of the System Settings page.
• Jobs that have specific utilization goals will override the settings in this section, though the Utilization Dashboard will still show the colors based on the goals for the machine that are set here. 

Utilization Goal Color Scheme

When you enter specific utilization goals in this section for a selected machine, that machine will display in MachineMetrics Dashboards based on the following color indicator scheme for utilization goals:

•  Green (Goal): Machine is performing at or above utilization percentage goal.
• Orange (Warning): Machine is performing below utilization percentage goal and may not meet utilization goals under current operating conditions.
• Red (Failure): Machine will fail to meet utilization percentage goal under current operating conditions.

Downtime Goals Back to Topics

This section allows you to set machine downtime goals that are specific for the selected machine. 

Setting Downtime Goals for a Specific Machine

You can enter downtime goals here as a number to indicate the maximum number of minutes the overall job or shift operating time that the selected machine should be inactive. Consider the following when setting the downtime goal in this section:

• The settings in this section for the selected machine will override the default downtime goal settings that are configured for your overall MachineMetrics system in the Dashboard section of the System Settings page.
• Jobs that have specific downtime goals will override the settings in this section, though the Utilization Dashboard will still show the colors based on the goals for the machine that are set here. 

Downtime Goal Color Scheme

When you enter a specific downtime goal in this section for a selected machine, that machine will display in MachineMetrics Dashboards based on the following downtime color indicator scheme:

•  Green (Active): Machine is active.
• Orange (Warning): Machine has been inactive for less time than the downtime threshold.
• Red (Down): Machine has been inactive for longer than the downtime threshold.

Notifications

This section allows you to set notifications that are specific for the selected machine. You can create notifications based on the utilization or downtime goals configured for the machine. MachineMetrics Executive and Manager users can set up notifications for themselves or for any other user, including Supervisor users.

IMPORTANT! When setting up notifications for another user, be sure to confirm that the user has set up their MachineMetrics Profile to receive notifications. Users who have not set up their profile for MachineMetrics notifications will not receive them.

Creating Utilization Notifications

To create a notification based on utilization, do the following:

1. Click on the Add New Notification button in the Notifications section.
2. The Notifications section will expand to allow you to options for the setting up the notification:
   
   
   
   Selecting Utilization Notification Options
   
   • User: Select the MachineMetrics user you want to receive the notification.
   • When: Select Utilization to indicate that the notification is to be based on a utilization threshold percentage.
   • Is: Select the utilization percentage threshold that must be met to generate the notification. You can select either the Warning or Failure goal threshold percentage that has been configured for the environment.
   • And: Select additional conditions you want to be met in combination with the utilization percentage threshold before generating the notification. You can select one or more of the following additional conditions:
     • jobs are scheduled: Do not generate the notification unless the utilization threshold is met AND jobs are scheduled
     • downtime is uncategorized: Do not generate the notification unless the utilization threshold is met AND the downtime causing the utilization issue is not categorized.
   • Delay: Enter the number of minutes you want MachineMetrics to wait after all conditions are met before generating the notification. Enter 0 for immediate notification.
3. Click the Done button to create the notification.
4. Click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the machine configuration settings dialog to implement the new notification settings in the MachineMetrics system.  

 Creating Downtime Notifications

To create a notification based on utilization, do the following:

1. Click on the Add New Notification button in the Notifications section.
2. The Notifications section will expand to allow you to options for the setting up the notification:
   
   
   
   Selecting Downtime Notification Options
   • User: Select the MachineMetrics user you want to receive the notification.
   • When: Select Inactive to indicate that the notification is to be based on machine downtime.
   • And: Select additional conditions you want to be met in combination with the machine inactive condition before generating the notification. You can select one or more of the following:
     • jobs are scheduled: Do not generate the notification unless the machine is inactive AND jobs are scheduled.
     • powered on and reporting data: Do not generate the notification unless the machine is inactive AND the machine is actually powered on and reporting data.
     • downtime is uncategorized: Do not generate the notification unless the machine is inactive AND the downtime causing the downtime issue is not categorized.
   • Delay: Enter the number of minutes that MachineMetrics should wait after the machine becomes inactive and any additional conditions are met before generating the notification. For example, if 10 minutes or less of machine inactivity is not significant, enter 10 in this field to receive notifications only when the machine has been inactive for more than 10 minutes. Enter 0 to send the notification immediately after the machine becomes inactive and any additional conditions are met.
     
3. Click the Done button to create the notification.
4. Click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the machine configuration settings dialog to implement the new notification settings in the MachineMetrics system.  

Groups Back to Topics

The Groups section of the Machines page allows you to create machine groups for display and reporting purposes. Using Groups, you can create a unique Dashboard for each group, and generate unique group-based reports.

Choosing Machine Group Criteria Back to Topics

You can create groups based on any criteria you choose, such as machine product or part cells, company department, machine types, integration types, types of jobs/parts a given group of machines run, or simply the location of the machines on the shop floor. Different machine groups do not interfere or interact with one another, and individual machines can be part of more than one group.

For example, If you plan to have multiple monitors in different areas of your shop floor displaying your MachineMetrics Current Shift Dashboard, you can create different groups for the different cells of machines in each monitor location. 

Creating Machine Groups Back to Topics

To create a new group, do the following:

1. Click the Create Group button to launch the Group dialog.
   
   
   
2. In the Group dialog, enter a group name that indicates the purpose and function of the group (machine cell name, machine type, job or part type, and so on) using a naming convention that is meaningful to your users.
3. Select the machines you want to include in the group.
4. Select any unique downtime reasons that you want to apply to the group (optional). This step is optional but can be useful when your shop has different machines that have different behaviors and downtime reasons. If you do not check any specific downtime reasons, all downtime categories will remain available for the group.
5. Click the Save Changes button to create the group.

Gateways Back to Topics

The Gateways section displays the name(s) of the MachineMetrics network gateway(s)/Edge Device(s) and the number of machines that each gateway supports.