Why should I customize the default dashboard?
Widgets serve as effective information tiles. The machine page offers you the tools for designing a widgets dashboard that will include precisely what you want to display and track.
By employing a responsive design, the widget dashboard optimally adjusts to fit any size of monitor: from personal workstations and terminals with small screens to a large TV monitor. This maximizes the dashboard's visual impact and results in an ultimate tool for tracking shift progress from the machine perspective.
Which widgets are offered and where can I find them?
The widget library is where you'll find the widgets you can add to the machine dashboard (see the following section for how to reach it). It holds the following preconfigured widgets:
Job Units Progress
Josh Units Progress
ERP job progress
ERP job progress for shift
Shift progress
Product Image
Total rejects
Machine status
Reported stop events (the bar represents the total duration of all stop events with reported reasons, filtered events are those reported automatically by the system)
In addition to these preconfigured widgets, the library provides configurator widgets. Configurator widgets are widget templates that enable you to add multiple widget tiles, each showcasing a different parameter.
The library includes two types of configurator widgets:
Range: for visually representing the current position of a selected parameter relative to its set limits.
Simple: for straightforwardly displaying the value of a selected parameter.
When adding configurator widgets, you begin by choosing the desired type (range or simple) and then selecting the parameter it will display.
NOTE
Not all widgets offered for individual machines are offered for machine lines, since there are machine parameters that are unapplicable to lines and vice versa.
How to customize the widget dashboard
Procedure
Click Edit widgets.
To remove existing or default widgets:
Click to select the widget.
Click:
In the confirmation dialog click Delete.
To add widgets (you should still be in Editing mode):
Click Add widget to open the widget library.
Click the add control of target widgets.
In the library you can choose between three types of widgets:Preconfigured (Job progress, Josh progress, Total rejects, Product image, Machine status)
Range (a configurator type)
Simple (another configurator type)
If you want multiple instances of a selected configurator widget, increase the counter to the number of instances.
The Add control shows in parentheses the count of widgets you're about to add.
Click it to apply the Add action.The widgets are shown in preview mode in the dashboard area. (The order of the widgets in the dashboard is determined by the order you selected them.)
Each of the configurator widgets provides a toolbar with a parameter selector control and a remove a control.
Click the parameter selector to choose the parameter the widget displays, and click Apply.
To remove the widget, see step 2.
To rearrange the widgets (you should still be in Editing mode):
Hover over the target widget and the handle control will be shown.
The widget can now be dragged to the desired location. A thin purple line indicates where the widget will be placed.
Drop the widget there.
Apply the dashboard to the machine:
Click Save changes to apply the dashboard to the current machine only.
Click Save and apply to if you want to apply this dashboard (the widgets and the way you configured them) to selected departments and machines.
In the Apply dashboard settings to machines dialog select the departments and/or machines and click Apply settings.
When applying to other machines, you may have a machine that doesn't have the same parameters that are available for the current machine. In this case you will get an error indicating on which machine the widget couldn't be applied.
NOTE
The machine's widget dashboard cannot be empty. You must have at least one widget there.
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