Monitoring & Reporting
Color Mill
The most important real time analysis tool in KnitMaster is the
COLOR MILL. On this color coded lay-out of the mill, the machines
are pictured in a number of colors, each color indicating a certain
machine status or alarm condition.
From a data selection window, the user selects the type of in-
formation to be displayed : efficiencies, speeds, stop rates, etc.
For each data item, exception limits can be defined and problem
machines are automatically flagged.
User definable “filter sets” allow to display only these machines
that correspond with a certain condition, for example all ma-
chines with an efficiency less than 85%, all machines waiting for
an intervention, all machines producing a specific style, etc…
A “mouse click” on a specific machine opens a detailed window
with all required details for the selected machine. As a unique
feature within KnitMaster, these detail reports may contain any
user defined mixture of text and graphics.
Film Report
The film report is the result of an automatic machine activity
sampling carried out by KnitMaster. Based on user definable time
intervals, the film report makes a complete machine diagnostic
and shows whether efficiency losses were due to one long stop
or were caused by several short stops.
Report & Formula Generator
All data is stored in a data base and is available for history
reporting. By means of a report and formula generator, a user
without any programming or SQL knowledge can define his own
calculations and reports. For every report item selected from the
data base, upper and lower warning and alarm levels can be
defined resulting in color coded exceptions in the report.
Once a report lay-out has been defined, the user can select it for
a variety of selection keys such as by machine type, by opera-
tor, by style, etc…and for any period such as shift, day, week,
month or even year.
Reports can be selected in tabular as well as in graphical format.
The user has a set of graphic options available, such as bar charts,
pie charts, trends and pareto charts.