What's New in Andon Studio™ P4.0
With version 4.0, Andon Studio™ goes even further in optimizing shop floor performance monitoring, with a clear goal: increasing operational efficiency with less effort. Team leaders, supervisors, operators, quality and maintenance managers will find in this version powerful tools for real-time monitoring, analysis, and response, to be fully integrated into their daily lives. Designed to meet the concrete needs of the field, this update enriches the toolbox of industrial performance stakeholders.
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Managing Manufacturing Operations
A new tab on the operator display enables the operator to easily view the list of operations destined for his production zone.
By selecting one of them, he can display its information in real time and manage the associated tasks.
In particular, he can view estimated completion times for tasks, operations and work orders in real time.
The execution times of each work order, operation and task are monitored, so that alarms can be issued in the event of deviation.
These alarms can be used in workflows to issue notifications, write to variables or any other action available in the workflow manager.
Follow-up of Work Orders and Manufacturing Operations
A display available in Andon Studio™ Operations and Manager makes it possible to monitor the execution of work orders and manufacturing operations in real time, in the form of a Gantt chart refreshed in real time.
In particular, this display makes it easy to view machine status and operators for each operation, on a timeline.
Users can compare actual production with planning, and see the estimated finish time for each operation and work order.
Monitoring of Execution
New workflow activities allow you to monitor the execution of work orders and manufacturing operations. Many detection conditions are configurable.
Upon entering the configured condition (for example: the execution of a manufacturing operation exceeded its planned duration by 10%), an action can be taken through the workflow. This can, for example, send an alert message via the Andon Studio™ Mobile application or email or write to a PLC variable to activate an output (light, siren, etc.).
Work Orders and Manufacturing Operations Editor
As a replacement for an ERP system or for educational purposes, with version 4.0 we are offering a work orders and manufacturing operations editor.
This tool enables you to create and update work orders and manufacturing operations for two types of production: batch or individual parts. In the latter, each part to be produced is identified and associated with a specific production task that can be monitored.
Contextual Operation Documents
A new display lets you define documents and associate filter criteria with them, such as: operation types, task types, product types, machine types, machine models, sites, products, roles or validity period.
These filter criteria can be combined, enabling the system to present only the relevant documents contextually to those involved while manufacturing operations are carried out.
New Reports
Two new reports enable you to generate statistics on the execution of work orders and manufacturing operations.
The first presents a list of work orders, with details for each one. A visual performance indicator provides a quick overview of work orders that have exceeded user-defined thresholds.
The second shows the distribution of work orders or manufacturing operations that exceed planned durations. The history includes several variations, depending on what the user wishes to visualize.
Generic Synchronizer with OFBIZ Plugin
A new bi-directional generic synchronizer supports the addition of plugins to interface with any type of system, enabling, among other things, the automatic synchronization of sites, equipment, products, orders and planned manufacturing operations from ERP systems to Andon Studio™, and then returning actual information to them such as status, duration, production counts, rejects, remanufacturing or any other information deemed relevant.
An initial plugin is supplied with version 4.0, enabling interfacing with the Open Source ERP OFBiz. Integration with other ERPs such as SAP is currently underway.
Mapping with External System Entities
A new display allows you to view and configure mappings between Andon Studio™ entities and those of external systems. If the synchronizer is configured to create entities in Andon Studio™ from an ERP or other system, mappings are created automatically, but it is also possible to disable them if required. Each entity from an external system can also be easily remapped to another Andon Studio™ entity of the same type by a simple drag-and-drop operation.
Association of Products to Production Machines
A view has been added to easily visualize and configure the associations between products and production machines grouped by production lines.
Services Restart
In certain circumstances, it may be necessary to stop or restart web or Windows® services on the main Andon Studio™ server.
In previous versions, only authorized IT staff were able to do this, which could cause delays.
To facilitate system support, we've added a new screen that allows authorized Andon Studio™ administrators to do this themselves.
Two-factor Authentication
For enhanced security, you now have the option of using two-factor authentication. This means that following successful authentication by a user, the system sends them a code by e-mail, which they must then enter before gaining access to the system.
When this option is configured at system level for access to the various modules, the administrator has the option of enabling or disabling it on a finer-grained basis for each workflow activity, or for switching from one display zone to another.