Introduction
Overview
The Plant Applications Universal Client acts as a container of the applications for managing work orders as described in the following table.
| Application | Description |
|---|---|
| Operations | Displays a list of operations associated with a work order. You can track the progress of completion of an operation, access reference documents, provide data for quality variables, specify consumption of BOM items, and create a defect. |
| NCR Management | Displays a list of nonconformities raised as defects on serial numbers or material lots. The application includes details for each defect and enables you to select a disposition plan for each defect or access a record of the disposition plan taken on each defect. |
| Order Management | Displays the status, progress, and priority of work orders. You can also access the work order, history, defects, and manage the planned dates of a work order, if required. |
| Route Management | Displays the routes used to manufacture a product. You can create routes, add operations to the route, assign BOM items, equipment, documents, and properties to the operations, and release a route for use in a work order. |
| Work Queue | Displays a list of operations that are ready or in progress. You can add operations to the work queue, track the progress of completion of an operation, access reference documents, provide data for quality variables, specify consumption of BOM items, and create a defect. |
| Property Definition | Displays a list of property definitions tailored to the requirements of your business. The application also displays the property groups and properties to which a property definition belongs. |
| Security Management | Displays a list of privilege sets available for each application in the Plant Application Universal Client. The application displays the groups added to each privilege set. |
| Downtime Displays | Displays the list of KPIs and downtime events for the machines assigned to the operator. |
| Equipment | Displays an overview of the OEE, Quality, Performance, and Availability KPIs. Additional information about each KPI is displayed as Pareto and Waterfall charts. |
| Reports | Displays KPI reports and production status of the plant by department, line, and unit. It also provides information about Planned vs. Actuals for each KPI. |
| My Machines | Enables an operator to subscribe and monitor the required machines for downtime events. |
| Analysis | Plots historical and live charts to visualize time series data available in Plant Applications and Historian. Displays information for production batches in the form of a Gantt chart. |
| OEE Aggregation Store | Calculates and stores OEE data in a database so that it is quickly accessible. The OEE data can be calculated at the site level. The OEE data can be refreshed at a configured interval. |
| Activities | Displays the activities planned within the duration of a shift. You can add an activity for an event within the shift duration, and then any user can perform the activity within the shift duration. |
| Alarms | Triggers alarm notifications based on rules configured in Plant Applications Administrator. |
Recommended Browser and Minimum Resolution
Recommended Browser:
- Google Chrome 50 or later
- Safari
Recommended Minimum Resolution:
- For Order Management: 1360 x 768
- For Analysis: 1280 x 768
- For all the other applications: 1024 x 768
User Roles
The following table describes the user roles for each application in the Plant Applications Universal Client.
| Application | User Roles Description |
|---|---|
| Operations | Enables operators to clock on the operations, perform the operations, specify the consumption of BOM items, provide data for quality variables, and mark the operations complete. Operators can also create a defect if a part is defective, which appears in NCR Management.
Note: While the Operations module provides a list of serial numbers on which you can perform an operation using a selected piece of equipment, the Work Queue module provides a list of operations that are available for you to work on (regardless of the piece of equipment required to perform the operation). |
| NCR Management | Enables quality engineers to access the record of non-conformities raised as defects on serial numbers or material lots and decide the disposition plan for a defect. |
| Order Management | Enables supervisors to monitor the status and progress of work orders and manage the priority of a work order if required. |
| Route Management | Enables supervisors to create routes and define the product line, material, BOM formulation, operations, BOM items, equipment, documents, and properties used in each route. |
| Work Queue | Enables operators to view a list of operations in their work queue, add additional operations, clock on the operations, perform the operations, specify the consumption of BOM items, provide data for quality variables, and mark the operations complete. Operators can also create a defect if a part is defective, which appears in NCR Management.
Note: While the Operations module provides a list of serial numbers on which you can perform an operation using a selected piece of equipment, the Work Queue module provides a list of operations that are available for you to work on (regardless of the piece of equipment required to perform the operation). |
| Property Definition | Enables supervisors to create the property definitions, and then link these properties to a specific property group and property category. |
| Security Management | Enables Administrators to add groups to a privilege set, provide access to a privilege set for users to access the application, and remove access to a privilege ses. |
| Downtime Displays | Enables operators to add, modify, copy, delete, split, and merge downtime events for the selected machines. |
| Equipment and Reports | Enables supervisors, process engineers, maintenance engineers, and operation leaders to enhance the capability of Plant Applications data to monitor quality, performance, availability, and overall equipment effectiveness of plant equipment. |
| My Machines | Enables operators to select the required machines, from the assigned machines, for which they want to view the downtime events. |
| Analysis | Enables operators, supervisors, and process engineers to analyze time series data and live issues, and to quickly troubleshoot issues and make improvements. Process engineers can also analyze the production batches and golden batches information. |
| Activities | Enables operators and supervisors to perform, complete, release, and skip an activity associated with an event. |
| Alarms | Enables supervisors to receive alarm notifications based on rules configured in Plant Applications Administrator. |