Cycle Browser 4.2
The cycle browser provides graphical data on your processes cycle status, including the machine heartbeat. The Cycle Browser has two main displays, the Cycle View Upper display, and the History Display panel.
The Upper Display consist of a Sequence View, Message Pane, and an Analog View based upon your object selection. Some object may not have analog data present. When there is no analog data present, the analog data graph will be omitted from the display.
The sequence view will display regardless of the lack of analog data.
The lower graphing area is the History Display Panel. This will display the last 100 cycles, or an option to view Todays or Yesterday's data.
Opening Cycle Browser
You can then access the cycle browser by using the Object Tree menu to navigate to your desired object.
Via Object Tree Button
Click on the Object Tree button, and the Object Tree window will reveal.
Click on the drop-down icon beside the object. This will reveal the lower-level objects. Proceed until you reach the object desired. Click on the object and then you can proceed to the select the Cycle Browser. Another way you can go directly to the Cycle Browser is to use the Quick Links to the right of each object.
After selecting the desired object, the cycle browser will launch to this browser, if it was already open. If the cycle browser was not open, then go to the data browser icon in the left side Main Menu and open the cycle browser.
Via Object Address String
The user can use the Object Address String to navigate to an object of desire. Simply click on an object on the address string and the other objects will appear below. Then you can over over and navigate to a lower or higher level object.
Drill down to an Asset
Based upon your selection another window will open. If you selected a single asset, then a history display panel will open displaying the last 100 cycles.
The Cycle History Panel contains a color-coded graph that indicates cycle statuses for a selected object over a period of time. This is showing the last 100 cycles. It can be Green (Good), Yellow (Watch), Orange (Warning), Purple ( Missing ), or Red ( Fault ).
Good / Green -Normal, Optimum Performing Range
Watch / Yellow -Watch, Not Optimum but within defined Tolerance window.
Warning / Orange -Warning, Outside Defined Tolerance Window
Fault / Red -Fault
Missing / Purple -Missing Data due to Stoppage or Missing Input/Output.
Design Time / Blue Line above the cycle columns.
Selection from a higher level object
If you selected a Station object or higher-level object that has more than one asset, then an asset window will open containing all the assets within your selection.
Cycle Browser Asset Statistics Display
Upon initial selection of an of any object above the Asset object, the cycle browser will load the Select an Asset window within your station selection, stacked one atop of the other. In this example, an Area object was selected, so it took a few moments for all the 30 station assets to display.
NOTE: It would be ideal to use the object tree to navigate to the asset you would like to view. But the user can navigate from a high level. This will take a few moments to load.
On an asset load that has more assets then can be displayed on one screen, a menu will appear to the right. With this menu you can jump from top to the bottom of the list. If you're selecting an asset towards the bottom then it will appear at the bottom of your screen. If you are select something from the top of the list and it will display at the top of the window.
Select from one of the assets. Once selected, it will open to the History Display for that Asset.
From there you will then have to select an asset to view, the same as selecting a single asset the history display panel will open. From here select a cycle to view.
Once selected, the history display panel will reduce to the lower part of the cycle browser window, and the upper main display will display the cycle selected.
Selecting another cycle
To Select another cycle, go to the bottom of the cycle browser, in the History Display Panel. From here you can select a cycle to view in the Upper Graphical area of the cycle browser. While browsing over the History Display Panel, you can hover over a cycle to view the details of that cycle.
Select a cycle by clicking on a cycle on the History Display Panel. After you click on it, a highlight will appear around the selected cycle, and the upper window will update with the selected cycle.
Located on the lower right of the cycle browser, are 4 buttons to change the views to on how to display the History Display Panel. The history display panel defaults to the column view. The other views available are the model view, grid view, and sequence view.
Column
The column view displays a bar graph is color coded. Each bar shows the approximate cycle length. Below the bar is a status dot. the dot will display the occurrence oven on good cycle motion. If there was an hovercycle or a warning within the cycle, then it will appear below the cycle bar. A green bar with an orange dot shows that there was a warning over cycle within that good cycle.
Model
The model view will display all the models of the cycle in a dotted line graph. The different models will be displayed to the far right. The user can click and toggle on and off and he modeled he would like to view.
Grid/Table
The grid view displays the data in a table view.
Sequence
The sequence view displays bars across a title line. this gives a view of the last 100 cycles with the downtime between cycles. (The white area between cycles).
Day/Hour Option
On the far left just above the history display panel, is the current date. This is also a link to select a different date. Clicking on it will open a select date window of the last 30 days. The user can also choose from the last 30, 60, 90, or Last 120 days.
The window will refresh to your selection. It will show the date, how many cycles are on that day, and the actual status for that day. This status will be displaying how many Good, Watch, Warning, Faulted, Missing, Average Cycle Length, and Baseline.
Selecting one of the days in this window will open a day hour range window. This is a history displayed with all 24 hours displayed on the bottom. For that day the highlighted hours will contain ran cycles for that day.
The user can hover over any of these hours to view the detailed information on how many good, watch, warning, faulted, and missing cycles for that hour. It also displays the total cycles for that hour. Selecting an hour will open the history display panel that allow you to select and view a specific cycle.
This view would be the same as a normal cycle view, however the hour selection menu will remain on the bottom below the history display panel. From there you can browse any hour for that day.
Next to the date selection is a dropdown menu that will allow you to select from the last 100 cycles, yesterday, or today. Selected last 100 cycles will simply display the last 100 cycles. Selecting yesterday or today it will open a display panel containing an Hour Selection tab below the History Display Panel. This feature works similarly to the date selection option.
Notes
The notes button will open a window that contains all the posts made in this object. It has the options to view notes made for this object or for all cycle notes.
To add a note simply goes up to the upper right-hand side and click the add note link. This will open a post feature. From there enter a title of the post, then fill out a detailed note in the post section.
Then select the priority level, otherwise it will be set at default. Then add any labels you would like to appear with this note.
Click submit, and this post will be saved to this object.
From here you can select the dates you would like to view by clicking on the date range calendar or clicking on the default dates. This will open the date range calendar. Select the start date from the calendar on the left and then the end date on the calendar on the right. You could also choose from today, yesterday, or the last seven days. Once your selection is complete select the submit button.
Then click the export cycles bar. The cycles will download, and you will get a notification in the lower left-hand side that it is downloaded to your Download folder.
Zero Length Cycles
The use can toggle On or Off the Zero Length Cycles displayed in the Cycle Browsers. Because of the use of Switches, State Changes, or any that will display a zero-length cycle motion, can be omitted from displaying by toggling off the Show Zero Lengths Events toggle. Turning off this feature will reload the Main graph and display the data without the Zero Length cycles.
When is feature is set, it will not only take effect in the Cycle Browser, but it'll take effect in any browser that displays the data, or a Sequence event, such as the Summary View, quick cycles, and other sequenced displays.
BEET
Beyond Equipment Efficiency and Throughput