Alarms - Downtimes

Epoptia MES has an out-of-the-box integrated alarm system for instant problem identification like downtime measurements, lack of materials and operations, other than production processes.

Alarms are assigned to workstations and can be activated from the operators or through our API from an external source, like a PLC or IoT device.

With the alarm activation, a notification appears in the administrator dashboard and an e-mail can be sent to a selected email address.

Specified causes for every alarm are in place, for route cause analysis purposes and to provide guidance to operators.

Alarms cannot be deleted once they have been used in any workstation.

However, they can be set as Inactive instead.

There are three types of alarms with their corresponding colors:

1. Caution is depicted in a Dark Yellow color
2. Warning is depicted in a Yellow color
3. Alarm is depicted in a Red color

You can use the above alarm types to separate the different downtimes in your production.

Important note: Alarms can be configured to pause every active work order on the specific workstation once they are activated. 

This can be set up by cheking the "Pause work orders when the alarm activated". 

When this option is selected the software measures the time duration of the alarm for reporting purposes, otherwise the time duration is not  measured at all.

Trough the Pro subscription plan, you can trigger an alarm when an off-limit comparison took place.

Go to the specific alarm and choose a comparison custom field type from the "Custom Fields" dropdown selection.

We suggest configuring alarms for potential issues in the production, as well as potential downtimes, that are not issues such as: 

workstation preparation, cleanings, or messages that indicate what the operator does, other than the planned operations (i.e. Someone called me, Foreman called me, etc...).