Activities and Activity Groups
About Activity Groups
Activity Groups consist of a collection of activities, grouped together for convenience and reporting purposes.
An Activity Group has the following attributes:
- Name
- Description
- Type
The type of Activity Group is either a Production Activity or a Non Production Activity. This is a compulsory field.
About Activities
Each discrete operation on a Line is known as an Activity. For example, there could be an Activity of Production, Change Over, Make Ready, Cleaning or Scheduled Maintenance.
An Activity has the following attributes:
- Name
- Description
- OEE Category
Overall Equipment Effectiveness Category. This category could be either Production, Planned Shutdown or Down Time. These categories are used when generating statistics for reports and also for statistics displayed within the Factory Client application.
- Colour
Used to visually differentiate and identify each Activity when displayed in the Factory Client application. If the OEE Category for the Activity is set to Planned Shutdown, please select a colour for this Activity that is not the Red, Green or Black colour used on the Status Bar of the Production Schedule Chart within the Factory Client application. This is a compulsory field.
A Production Activity has the following further attributes:
- Custom Field Name
A custom field that is attached to a Production Activity.
- Text or Number
Defines the format of the custom field.
- Unique for Each Part
Is set to yes, the value that is entered with the Custom Field is specific to an Activity part. If set to no, the same value is recorded for all Activity parts.