- Where Can You Find Them?
- Filter and Refresh
- “Drill in” and “Cross Filtering”
- Schedule Your Own Delivery
- Performance vs. Capacity
- Data Recency
- Calculations
Where Can You Find Them?
Once the reports are turned on there will be new links in the top bar of the Dashboard page.
Filter and Refresh
All of these reports will have a filter section across the top. Just change the filters and make sure to press the blue refresh button.
“Drill in” and “Cross Filtering”
Some reports have interactive right click/left click options!
For example, here we clicked the Utilization Hour bar chart for Cylindrical 06 Machine. We are able to select “Drill into” date, shift, part, operator, job number, or cell. When a choice is selected, a new window will pop-out to show drilled-in data as selected.
Left clicking into a chart or graph will filter the entire page of a report for that dimension. If you left click on machine, the whole report will filter for that machine.
Schedule Your Own Delivery
For our new BI Tools, you can easily create/remove/or edit a custom or filtered report that is emailed to you. For some of Amper's other tools, these types of emailed report updates require you to open a support ticket. For the BI tools, these updates are self-managed.
Some reports are designed for daily, weekly, and/or monthly delivery. To do this, filter the report as needed, click the 3 dots at the top right of the page, and select “Schedule Delivery”.
Choose your delivery settings (recurrence, time, email..etc.) and click “Save”.
Performance vs. Capacity
In most of our BI Tools reports, you can toggle the reports to show utilization as Capacity or Performance. Capacity Utilization is the true up and down of a machine. "Was the machine running or not? What was my capacity?" Performance is your Capacity Utilization minus any planned downtime (i.e. No Work, Break, Lunch). See the Capacity vs. Performance article below.
Performance Utilization is generally used for day-to-day management of goals, whereas
Capacity Utilization may be periodically analyzed when making hiring or purchasing decisions. For a video explanation of Capacity vs. Performance, please view our video here:
Data Recency
Due to the amount of data being processed, this means the most recent data you will see in these reports is from 20 minutes ago.
Calculations
BI Tools use improved downtime calculations: To ensure more accurate data, the Amper team has improved how we calculate downtime, for example, lost data will not be included in your utilization numbers. In most cases, this should not affect you. However, if you have frequent lost data or short cycle times, your downtime hours may look slightly different in the BI reporting tools than they do in the Downtime Explorer. Reach out to your CSM if you have any questions about this.
Availability: The ratio of uptime to total available time - also known as Utilization. Every report will have a filter option for “Utilization Calculation Type”. If you choose “Capacity”, this calculation will include ALL available shift time. If you choose “Performance”, this calculation will exclude Planned Downtime.
Performance: The ratio of run rates. In OEE calculations, we “cap” performance at 100% so as to not skew the OEE number.
Uncapped Performance: There are times when you want to look at “uncapped” performance to adjust target run rates. This calculation is part of the Part Performance Report.
Weighted Target Cycle Time: Calculating a Target Cycle Time (CT) for an individual job is simple - the Target CT is just entered into the system. To calculate cycle time across different dimensions (machine, days, weeks…etc.), we need to weigh the values appropriately to provide an accurate goal. For example, if you ran a job for 8 out of 10 hours with a Target CT at 180 sec/pc and then the last 2 hours were ran at 30 sec/pc, we account for that.
Actual Cycle Time: Actual run rate.
Quality: The ratio of good parts to total parts.
OEE: Overall Equipment Effectiveness. Accounting for all factors.