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Machine Timelines show a snapshot into a machine’s utilization (by group or individually) for any specific day and/or shift.

This is a great tool to get a quick, high-level overview of everything happening on your shop floor.

Scoreboards show data from a collection of machines or multiple Machine Groups. They display data about the current production state of the machine for the shift in addition to information gathered on Tally Sheets such as, job number, part number, operator name, etc. See

Scoreboards are intended to be displayed on a TV screen on your factory floor or other common areas of the building. They help you answer the question “What’s happening on my shop floor right now?”

The KPI Dashboard has a few out-of-the-box charts designed to be viewed on a phone. It is an easy to use tool for any supervisor who wants to take a quick glance at how things are going on the shop floor, right from their phone.

The Downtime Console empowers manufacturers to take control of their schedule. It is a feature that allows for easily mass-labeling downtime periods. A best practice is to have 1 person to use this tool daily to mass label things such as machines not being scheduled to run on a previous day.

Three examples of times when you might want to use this feature: 1. Mass labeling all machines as Unscheduled due to a company holiday or vacation 2. Daily use for Dynamic Scheduling to say if a machine was Unscheduled due to no work 3. Editing previously labeled downtimes if entered incorrectly

The Utilization Summary is a great way to look at utilization data compiled for longer periods of time - monthly, quarterly, or yearly!

Take your company to the next level with data-driven decision making. The Executive Summary helps you get a long-term glance at what's happening on your factory floor. This view consolidates Utilization and Downtime data into one place for easy monthly or quarterly reporting.

The Utilization Detailed is a great compliment to Utilization Summary. The core difference between the two reports is the timeline of data they were designed for:

Utilization Summary - no sooner than monthly

Utilization Detailed - no later than bi-weekly

This is a great tool to look at a week’s worth of data, and break it down by machine and by shift.

The Heatmap Explorer allows for a high degree of customization. In this view, you can choose the dimension on each axis and then filter by any of the available dimensions: shift, machine, cell, part, operator, etc. You can create as many custom heat maps as you want.

Really understand what contributes to all your downtime hours with the use of the Downtime dashboard. This report is a one-stop shop for anything to do with downtime. Uncover what downtime reasons are your pain points. Understand which machines are down the most. Explore trends to see which downtimes are getting fixed over time.

With setups being integrated to Tally Sheets in our latest update, a brand new dashboard for Setups has been unlocked. This dashboard will show information regarding setups that are open, closed, paused, and abandoned.

The purpose of this report is to provide a daily view of each machine’s utilization and downtime, while keeping long term goals in mind. The left side of the report is automatically filtered for “yesterday” and the right side of the report is filtered for “quarter to date” information.

The purpose of this report is to analyze OEE. For any date range, you can view your Availability, Quality, Performance by date, shift, cell, machine, operator and part number. This helps you get down to the true Root Cause of your inefficiencies.

The purpose of this report is to review your operator performance. You can see your top performing operators alongside with their hours of uptime, downtime and total parts produced. Below you’ll see a stack chart of the top downtimes per operator and you can filter this page for certain downtime codes. The pareto and table below will show which codes you filter for.

The Labor Metrics Dashboard is designed to help you measure and analyze the effectiveness of your paid labor, giving you valuable insight into the productivity of your operators.

This report was built to help you analyze Part Performance. You can see your “uncapped performance” metric which is the ratio of your target cycle time to your actual cycle time. Use this report to update your ERP and quote future jobs more effectively!

The Scrap Parts (Beta) Dashboard is designed to help you measure and analyze your scrap.

This reports gives an overview of everything that ran yesterday by machine and shift. It also breaks down the week-to-date production, and week-over-week progress so you can see how production is trending over the year.

This dashboard includes the top/bottom 5 Late Starts and Early Stops along with trailing data by day and shift. Operator and breakdowns by weekday and shift are also shown, as well as trends over time.

Reports are an easy way to export data from Amper. Here you can quickly download various reports of different formats: CSV or PDF.

To enable industry advancements in eliminating manual data collection, Amper can be used to gather information digital using Tally Sheets. That data is stored in Paperless Reporting accessible in CSV format.

The Utilization Explorer helps you understand how your utilization differs across shifts, machines, employees, and dates.

To view a report containing the same information and more, including the ability to automatically deliver a report, please see

The Downtime Explorer helps you target your main reasons for downtime and the most problematic machines.

To view a report containing the same information and more, including the ability to automatically deliver a report, please see

The Setup Explorer shows you how long each specific step in a setup took.

When taking advantage of our Call Team feature, the Call Response Explorer helps you track which team members respond to Operator Calls and understand how quickly your team responds.

Have you ever had a machine down for hours and nobody informed you? You can use the Alerts tool in Amper to set up custom text or email Alerts to ensure downtime or other issues never go unnoticed. Amper Alerts can be set to notify you, by text or email, any time a machine is down for a set period of time, if a specific downtime reason is entered, or if a setup is taking longer than desired.

Call Teams is an andon communication tool to help operators get help on the shop floor. When they run into an issue, they can call a specific team like maintenance or a supervisor for help from the Operator Interface. The team being called can have groups of people, or be teams for specific individuals.

Schedule is the home base for the Maintenance Owner. The main use for the Schedule is to finalize what is being done and when, and incorporating Suggested Tasks into the overall maintenance plan.

Suggested Tasks: Plans will generate Suggested Tasks for the Maintenance Owner to approve and add to the schedule. Suggestions are NOT Tasks until they are approved and added to the Schedule.

The Tasks view is for the Assignees/Task Owners to complete tasks. Filter the top of the page and click complete to show you're getting things done.

A Plan generates a Task Suggestion. You can use the Plans view to set what maintenance tasks should be done, how often (type), and to which assets.

The Analytics view compiles maintenance activity information into a one-stop-shop to easily see what maintenance is being done in your factory

In Amper, an Asset is considered any piece of equipment that has a maintenance schedule associated with it. By default, any machine hooked up to Amper will display on this page. However, you may have additional equipment not being tracked by Amper. If that's the case, but you still want to track its maintenance schedule using the system, you can add the Asset to Amper.

The Static Assets page is where you can add your static assets. The following are some common examples:

The Requests page is where anyone can go to request a specific maintenance task. These requests get approved by the Maintenance Owner and once approved, automatically move to the Schedule to be assigned.

In addition, any request that has been made, will appear on the Requests page, for approval.

Use the Scoreboard view as a visual management board, so the entire maintenance team can see open tasks. You can easily put this view on a TV on the shop floor for high-visibility.

This page is your profile information. From here you can change your title, phone number, where call team notifications get sent (see

Local Preferences are for you to set the default of machines you’d like your Machine Timelines to show.

Easily check the status of your Amper hardware connection on this page. This page is great for self-diagnosing installation and connection issues.

The Company page will show you all users associated with your Amper system. As well as deactivated users and invitations for users who haven’t yet created their Amper account. For creating or deactivating users within the Amper system.

This page allows you to create groups of machines that are either Cells or General. These are groups that allow for comparing or filering different sets of machines throughout various places in the app.

Furthermore, a Cell group is how you’ll specify in Amper which machines run which shifts (if they don’t run all shifts).

The Shifts page is where you can establish or edit your shifts according to your daily production schedule. Amper uses shifts to caluclate utilization around when you’re expecting to run production.

Machine Settings provides the ability to toggle downtime labeling on or off for individual machines as well as set utilization targets per machine.

This page allows you to add, delete, and edit the downtime reasons of your system. Downtime reasons that are created here will be visible for users labeling downtime with the Downtime Console or operators using Downtime Periods in the Operator Interface.

This will let you schedule expected Downtime on a cadence of your choosing. You have the ability to decide which machines to include, length of time, and reoccurrence, and the downtimes will automatically be labeled by our system accordingly.

This page allows you to make your setups non-linear and associate a setup target time.

There are 2 ways the setup module can be used:

In this page, you’re able to add your parts into your system so that operators filling out tally sheets can select the part they’re running. Parts can be added using the “Add Part” button.

The Outposts page allows you to create 2 types of outposts which represent different forms of displaying or interacting with machine data: Dashboards and Operator Interfaces. You can also view and edit any previously created outposts in this page. Each outpost has a code for logging into the appropriate area of the Amper system.

Here you’ll be able to add your operators into the Amper system. Operators in the system will be able to select their name from a drop down list when filling out Tally Sheets.

Operators don’t need an email or password to login to Amper. Gathering the name of an operator on Tally Sheets allows for further data analysis/filtering in reports.

The Paperless page allows you to customize what information is to be gathered on Tally Sheets by operators.

The Scrap Reasons page in the settings allows you to customize what Scrap Codes will be entered on Tally Sheets by operators.