FabExplorer#

Manufacturing.fabExplorer

Overview#

The fabExplorer page provides a visual exploration for the overall factory model contained within Critical Manufacturing MES. It allows you to drill down from the top to the bottom level. The current hierarchical structure is as follows:

• Enterprise
• Site
• Facility
• Area
• Step or Resource

Navigation#

The fabExplorer has different levels of visualization:

Enterprises#

The highest level, and also the landing page when fabExplorer is opened, presents an overview of the different existing Enterprises and remote Sites on the left navigation pane, where you can select how to drill-down into the bottom levels and the entire list of available Facilities is displayed on the right data pane. It is also possible to filter the results by using either the Type filter or the Search bar.

Sites#

Selecting a specific Enterprise will list the Sites that belong to it. Selecting one of the Sites will display the Facilities that belong to it on the right data pane.

Facilities#

The third highest level is displayed by default as a list when fabExplorer is opened and presents an overview of the different existing Facilities. It is also possible to filter the results by using either the Type filter or the Search bar. It is also possible to see the number of Areas that the Facility contains at the bottom-right corner of every Facility tile.

On the right side of the screen you can find the Materials that are ready to be received at the Facility.

Expanding the top ribbon of the Facility View reveals a button that allows quick access to the different dashboards available out of the box that provide a snapshot on the current state of the Facility:

• Manufacturing

• Quality

• Maintenance

Facility View#

Selecting a Facility in the previous view results in the opening of the Areas view for the chosen Facility. The different Areas are listed, with the added information of how many resources are within them, in each particular state: Up, Down and Maintenance.

These states are subject to being changed by clicking on the Change Resources button, in the header. When the wizard is displayed, select the Resource(s) whose state you want to modify and select the desired new state on the next page, followed by Finish, as demonstrated below:

In addition, it is possible to modify the Employees or Trainees that are linked to a specific Resource, by selecting Manage Resource Employees or Manage Resource Trainees, respectively.

Here, the Materials Tab is also visible for the first time, showing how many local and remote materials are to be received.

Area View#

This view, opened by pressing one of the Areas is one detailing the Steps, as well as the Resources that can have the necessary Services for a certain Step. Here, there is also the indication of how many Materials are at a certain Step; for each Resource, it is possible to identify the state in which the resource is, by observing its color:

• Green - Up
• Red - Down
• Gray - Non-Scheduled

In addition, four more pieces of information are displayed: Number of Processed Materials, Number of Checked-in Employees, Number of In-Queue Materials and the Number of In-Process Materials. The tab on the left holds information on any Undispatchable Materials that may exist in this Area.

From here, it is possible to navigate to two views:

• The Step View, by clicking on one of the Steps.
• The Resource View, by clicking on one of the Resources.

Step View#

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The Step view lists all the Materials currently at that Step, as well as their state:

A list of the Resources that are be used to process Materials on that particular Step can also be displayed:

From the Step View, it is possible to perform the following operations:

• Change Resource State - Change the state of a certain Resource.
• Dispatch - Assign a Material to be processed at a certain Resource.
• Dispatch and Track-In - Perform both Dispatch and Track-In at once.
• Undispatch - Unassign a Material from the dispatched Resource.
• Track-In - Begin the processing of a Material at the dispatched Resource.
• Track-Out - End the processing of a Material at the dispatched Resource.
• Track-Out and Move-Next - Perform both Track Out and Move Next at once.
• Move-Next - Moves a Material from the current Step to next one in its Flow.
• Special Move-Next - Moves a Material from the current Step to a any Step in any Flow.
• Abort - Stop processing a Material.
• Split - Splits a Material into two or more Materials
• Merge - Merges two or more Materials into one.
• Change Material Type - Changes the Type of a Material.
• Rework - Sends a Material to Rework.
• Record Material Loss/Bonus - Records a Quantity Loss or Bonus for a Material.
• Record Assembled Loss/Bonus - Records an assembled quantity loss or bonus for the Material.
• Record SubMaterial Losses - Records a quantity loss or bonus for all SubMaterials (first level only/).
• Hold Material - Puts a Material on hold.
• Release Material - Releases a Material from one or more hold reasons.
• Post Data - Posts data to Material for a long running Data Collection.
• Perform Checklist/Perform Checklist - New - Performs a long running Checklist for a Material.

Resource View (Process)#

In the Resources Tab, you can see the different Resources which provide the necessary Services for this Step.

The Resource View shows an overview of the available Materials for processing at the selected Resource in the Dispatch List tab which includes only Materials in state Queued. In the Materials at Resource tab, the system displays all the Materials which are currently associated with the Resource. The total count for each of these states is shown alongside the Resource Name and State.

Selecting each of the categories on the left will load specific information about the Resource and the objects that are associated to it in any given time on the right-side panel, which may include an extra right-hand panel with additional information.

The left side panel (as well as some of the right panels) can be customized by pressing the settings icon on the top right of each panel. The left selection panel has the following options:

Selecting the desired options and saving the layout will overwrite the previous settings and set the new layout for the Resource View.

From the Resource View, it is possible to perform the following operations:

• Change Resource State - Changes the state of a certain Resource.
• Dispatch - Assigns a Material to be processed at a certain Resource.
• Dispatch and Track-In - Performs both Dispatch and Track-In at once.
• Undispatch - Unassigns a Material from the dispatched Resource.
• Track-In - Begins the processing of a Material at the dispatched Resource.
• Track-Out - Ends the processing of a Material at the dispatched Resource.
• Track-Out and Move-Next - Performs both Track Out and Move Next at once.
• Move-Next - Moves a Material from the current Step to the next one in its Flow.
• Special Move-Next - Moves a Material from the current Step to any Step in any Flow.
• Abort - Stops the processing of a Material.
• Split - Splits a Material into two or more Materials
• Merge - Merges two or more Materials into one.
• Change Material Type - Changes the Type of a Material.
• Rework - Sends a Material to Rework.
• Record Material Loss/Bonus - Records a Quantity Loss or Bonus for a Material.
• Record Assembled Loss/Bonus - Records an assembled quantity loss or bonus for the Material.
• Record SubMaterial Losses - Records a quantity loss or bonus for all SubMaterials (first level only/).
• Hold Material - Puts a Material on hold.
• Release Material - Releases a Material from one or more hold reasons.
• Post Data - Posts data to Material for a long running Data Collection.
• Check-In - Checks-in an Employee at a Resource.
• Check-Out - Checks-out an Employee from a Resource.
• Perform Checklist/Perform Checklist - New - Performs a long running Checklist for a Material.

Resource View (Storage)#

For Resources of processing type Storage, the view will be slightly different from the one displayed for Process Resources. The stored Materials will be listed, as well as the Materials that can be stored in the Resource.

Layout and Grids#

[ StepView or ResourceView ].SaveLayout

[ StepView or ResourceView ].SaveUserDefaultLayout

[ StepView or ResourceView ].SaveAllUsersDefaultLayout

[ StepView or ResourceView ].ResetToUserDefaultLayout

[ StepView or ResourceView ].ResetToAllUsersDefaultLayout

[ StepView or ResourceView ].ResetToApplicationDefault

In both views, it is possible to configure which columns will be displayed as well as to define a customized layout.
Each grid in the Resource and Step views can be customized by:

• Opening the grid's icon and selecting the columns to be displayed.
• Sorting the order of the selected columns by dragging and dropping them or by using the up and down arrows.
• Clicking on Apply to implement the changes.

As for the layout, at any time it is possible to:

• Save Layout - saves the layout only for the current View.
• Save as My View Default Layout - saves the layout as the default View for the current user.
• Save as My View Default Layout For All Users - saves the layout as the default View for all users.
• Reset To My View Default Layout- resets the current View layout to the default for the users.
• Reset To View Default Layout For All Users - resets the current View layout to the default for all users.
• Reset To Application Default - resets the current layout to the the application default.

1. Specific View
2. User Default View
3. All Users Default View
4. Application Default View

You can also choose to save any selected filters in the current layout by choosing Save filters.

Reset Layout#

The Reset Layout option enables you to restore a previously defined application layout configuration for you or for all users.

To reset a configuration, select one of the options and confirm the operation by selecting Reset, as shown below.