Evocon Line Efficiency Station software User manual
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1. operators operators Cancel Operator count change event can be deleted when mistake was made for example This is done with right mouse click on change mark and Delete clicked on dropdown menu Other ELF program must run continuously Do not close ELF program or the computer Evocon OU Page 9 Appendix A ELF Viewer mode Viewer mode is meant for using the ELF program in administrative personnel computer not in line computer that registers item signals This enables the view of all historic ended and current shifts of all the lines in factory Registration counting of item signals in Viewer mode is disabled Viewer mode features 1 Additional button Select station opens list with list of stations for what shifts are displayed Selected station is displayed above the button NE elect station 2 Additional button Select shift opens list with list of shifts for selected station above Program displays data of selected shift CZ Select shift 3 Change shift buttons allow the user to easily change between shifts in a current station 4 Additional button Open reporting opens the report environment in a web browser Upen reporting 5 Additional button lt Screens image export gt is displayed if it is enabled in settings This button will make a picture of the current shift and save it to C Evocon Viewer directory Screens Image expor2. evocon Line Efficiency Evocon Line Efficiency Station software User manual Version November 2012 1580 pcs eff 69 4 Trg PCS fr cri e ii 143 ol 360 290 BERN 306 250 INN 360 260 360120 13 360 310 14 33 20 il i E B Il i HH pa ns me s ALT Shift Wed 30 05 2017 6 00 Opasan Aium Ph 158 TT Introduction a A computer receives signal 24V from line equipment and displays produced items on monitor and saves into database b These monitors PC are mounted at clearly visible place and leading operator MUST COMMENT production stops with mouse click on red areas c Before after effect is great simply by having displays showing real production flow Just because operators feel being monitored the discipline is improving by having less short stop times d System pays off quickly because of c and maybe it enables to re organize working procedures because one commented stop happens very often or causes significant delay and needs corrective actions This manual describes usage of Evocon Line Efficiency software further ELF for responsible line operator Use of ELF system enables detailed overview over the real timely cycles of production characteristics nature of production stops and causes This should lead to better understanding and improvement of technical and organizational of factory productivity issues ELF software is production line monitoring system Units pr
3. Description Low pneumatic pressure happens more often lately Correctie measures Maininance people should check compressor Importance msnm Normal Low DK Cancel Non conformity report window opens with Add NC button It is recommended to add a non conformity report to describe serious problems at production line for instance systematically reoccurring or organizational events Report s subject description corrective measures and importance is filled by operator Shift responsible operator is registered as creator of the report Evocon OU Page 8 Operator count registration Operator count registration feature is enabled at production lines where cycle time depends directly from number of active operators at line For example items are registered at the end of conveyor but there are many product assembly places feeding items to same conveyor 2m Operator count is changed by similar action like commenting delays Operator clicks on correct time point on hour bar when actual change took place and commenting window opens where there is a yellow button Change employee count to be pressed Add new comment E Add NC Ls lt wm Pressing this button opens a list from where selected number of operators is selected and production with this number of operators continues from time point where change was initiated Select number of active operators operator operators operators
4. d via the comment window see Shift comments window If the shift has already ended and the system has automatically added the Uncommented stop comments then the operator or administrator if the operators are not allowed to see previous shifts must change the Uncommented stops to appropriate comments n 9 mi ST min Article change When a change to a different type of product happens in production line the operator must add a special Article change comment from group Article change This exceptional comment defines that items processed after this comment mark are part of a new article Article change comment must carefully be placed to a correct place on the hour row where article change actually timely happened Article change can be added afterwards but it is recommended to do this at the first possible occasion so that it is not forgotten and the system registers items under the correct article Article change can be switched off in some production lines where they happen too often or articles are very similar and there is no need to record specific articles Pause and Standby periodes Pause and Standby are reasonable comments that are positive Pause is a period while the line is not operating due to the fact that the workers are on a lunch or coffebreak Standby is a period while the line is not operating because there is no production and it is meant so that there should be no pr
5. oduction There are special buttons for insering pause and standby in the commenting window ADD PAUSE Evocon OU Page 6 Shift comments window Shift comments window displays all of the comments placed in the current shift with additional details Shift comments window is opened by pressing List comments button or by clicking on a label of the comment Selected comment can be deleted by pressing Delete selected comment button Deleting feature is used for corrections when a wrong comment was given or a comment was placed to a wrong hour row slice Shift comments Delete selected comment 20 01 24 Tootevahetus Tootevahetus A SiE 2013 20 12 36 Cleaning Other Sue DU Da 2015 2 20 22 56 Breakdown Other ae 10 04 2013 as 20 33 40 Standby Standby i sas 10 04 2013 Guidelines for commenting 1 Comments do not have to be added as the stops happen They can be added a bit later when the operator has time but they must be placed before the shift ends 2 It is recommended that the production manager reviews the shifts of the previous day s and fixes the errors if there are any Most of the errors include missing Standby or Pause comments and longer uncommented stops Special attention should be paid to the precise placement of the article change comments Evocon OU Page 7 Non conformity report window Add NC Add Non Conformity report NC subject Alr pressure
6. oducts produced appear as black circles on horizontal row Every horizontal row is time axis of one hour from left to right There is a number in front of every row on left side of monitor representing the hour for what data is displayed Minute numbers with 5 minute step are located on top of the first hour and they mark vertical minute lines Next to the hour numbers there are numbers totals of produced items for this hour Hour rows background is drawn green yellow or red according to cycle time normative for running product article Green background means that at that time the production line speed or in other words cycle time was within the normative Yellow background means that at that time the production line speed was too low over the cycle time normative Red background means that at that time there is production stop downtime In addition to monitoring the production flow the system enables commenting of production stops by operator It is recommended to comment all production stops red slices If system is configured to add Uncommented stop comments automatically then operator must change them to appropriate comment see Commenting of stops 7 min Evocon OU Page 2 Usage shortly for line operator 1 Operator registers himself as a responsible operator into ongoing shift by pressing Set operator button in lower right area of screen and selecting his username from the list that opens 2 Operato
7. r comments stop red slice reason Mouse click on a red time period opens a window from where the comment stop reason is selected A stop is defined as red slice between two items black circles If the shift has already ended and the system has added Uncommented stop comments automatically then the operator Or administrator if the operators are not allowed to see previous shifts must change these comments to appropriate comments see Commenting of stops 3 ELF program must run continuously Do not close ELF program or the commuter 4 Optionally operator count registration may be in use Operator count change is done similarly to commenting stops see Operator count registration Evocon OU Page 3 User interface FT Evocon Line Efficiency 54 117 evocon Ilne com 1580 pcs eff 69 4 Assembly 2 OCF 52 E H Trg poses 6 143 60 360 290 306 250 360 260 10 360120 11 242190 E MU BENE 12 112 80 i O IO O O m 360310 EDW io 33 20 MEN RR VA RR RR ERR E Ld 2 Select shit I ba eec static gt Adi NC amp 1 Open repartir 2 Refresh 7 amp 9 10 11 12 13 14 Hun ie b Signal shift Wed 30 05 2012 6 00 Operator Adam Ph 5198 776 Screen image export evocon com 1 Top blue bar Displays shift total quantity line usage efficiency percentage article currently in production and time 2 Hour rows Each of the horizontal lines rep
8. resents one hour In the example below between 19 00 and 20 00 there were 744 items produced whereas the norm was 1968 19 1968 744 MN ND O A MOR 3 Comment Each comment contains information about the length of the comment and the reason First one on the left marks the special article change comment The comment with a green label is a positive comment and the one with a gray label is a negative comment Standby time is shown as a blue comment 10m Breakdown om Standby Jem Ef 4 Chart of produced blue bar and target quantities gray bar for each hour is displayed in the bottom left corner of the window 5 Emotion faces Smiley face when production cycle time is within the normative neutral face when cycle time is below normative and sad face when cycle time is critically below normative 6 User interface buttons Set operator opens a list with usernames from where the responsible operator can select himself List comments opens a list of shift comments see Commenting of stops Add NC opens window for adding a non conformity report Refresh refreshes the display although there is automatic refresh every minute Visible in Viewer mode only see Viewer mode Select shift change one shift backwards or forwards or choose a shift by date Select station change the station that is shown on the viewer program screen Open reporting opens reporting pages in Inte
9. rnet Explorer Screen image export Export the screen image to a picture file located in C Evocon EvoconLineEfficiency Evocon OU Page 4 Operator registration onto shift Set operator Operator registers himself as shift responsible operator by pressing Set operator button in lower right area of screen It is recommended for the operator to be registered at the beginning of shift Commenting of stops Operator comments stops red slices on hour rows reasons Mouse click on stop area opens a window from where applicable comment is selected A new comment can be inserted in free text into the Add new comment box in case this feature is enabled If the free text comment is positive by nature the check box besides POSITIVE must be ticked Add comment GROUP COMMENT Article change Adjusting problems Conveyor error ADD PAUSE Material Depaneling robot error ponia MN Printing Mask breaking Posit comment Powdering injector jam Other Delay min Add new comment POSITIVE It is possible to place many comments on one stop but if the current comment covers whole time of the stop the user must first change the time of this comment by dragging the arrow buttons at both ends of the comment roO x A ee Standby Ne Evocon OU Page 5 Comments can be deleted by right clicking on the label of the comment and choosing delete The Ya Delete I comments can also be delete
10. t For Viewer mode the contents of C Evocon EvoconLineEfficiency folder the must be copied to C Evocon Viewer folder and the program must be started from the Viewer folder Evocon OU Page 10 Appendix B ELF settings ELF program settings are saved in files Settings ini and system ini located in folder C Evocon EvoconLineEfficience Settings Edit these files with Windows Notepad program Changes done in settings files do NOT take effect immediately For changes to take effect the ELF program must be closed and started programs reads settings at startup Settings ini description GENERAL SQL Server instance CentralServer ServerComputerName EVOCONCENTRAL Database MainDB SYSTEM SrvMode sa DBdriver 10 ShowQuickCommentButtons 1 Evocon OU Page 11 Support contact Evonest OU Phone 372 525 9866 E mail kalle evocon line com Web www evocon line com Evocon OU Page 12
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