Events
- Anastasiia Varavva
The Event is designed to provide users with real-time awareness of activities and events occurring within their work environment. It offers valuable insights into crucial aspects like maintenance activities, work permits, and exceptional situations.
What are Events?
In the context of our system, an "event" refers to any occurrence or activity that happens at a specific time or within a particular timeframe. The nature of these events can vary according to each customer's unique requirements. However, common use cases include work permits, maintenance activities, and exceptional situations.
Accessing Events:
Events are accessed through the “Events” menu.
To see Event menu, user needs to have read access to Event and Event configuration.
Event search and working with filters
Navigate seamlessly between different event categories. Quickly access event categories including exceptions, maintenance, and others (comprising all remaining event types). Switch to desired category and select event types via checkboxes. Now, view all events from the selected category at once.
Results from filters are displayed as widgets, which are configurable for each event type. This ensures that the most critical information is readily available within the result sets. By clicking on an event widget, users can access details about each event.
Administrators with Event configuration permissions can extend the filtering options through the system's settings page, allowing them to tailor filters for each event type (read here).
Open Events as Table
The "Open Events as Table" feature provides a convenient and organized way to view all events according to your specified filters. This feature is designed to enhance your data analysis experience by presenting event data in a tabular format, which is both customizable and easy to use.
How to Use "Open Events as Table"
To access this feature, simply click on the “Open as table” button. This will present the event data in a structured table format, allowing you to view, analyze, and manage your events more effectively.
Key Advantages of the Table View
Table Display Customization:
Personalized Views: Customize your event view to match your preferences. You can choose the columns you want to see based on your selected filters.
Filter Application: Apply various filters to narrow down the events displayed. This helps in focusing on specific types of events or events occurring within a particular time frame.
Metrics Tracking:
Event Count: Easily track the number of events that have occurred within the filtered criteria. This provides a quick overview of event frequency.
Total Duration: Monitor the total duration of events. This metric is crucial for understanding the impact of events on your operations and for identifying patterns over time.
Export Functionality:
CSV Export: Need to share or further analyze your event data? No problem! The table view allows you to export your data in CSV format. This feature is particularly useful for generating reports, sharing with team members, or conducting more in-depth analysis using external tools.
Example Use Case
Quality Control Monitoring: Imagine you want to analyze quality control issues over the past month. Using the "Open Events as Table" feature, you can:
Apply filters to display only quality control-related events.
Customize the table to show columns such as event type, timestamp, machine ID, and issue description.
Track the number of quality control issues and their total duration to understand their impact on production.
Export the filtered data to CSV for further analysis in a spreadsheet or to share with the quality control team.
By the way, here is an instruction on how to convert csv format into an editable excel table
By effectively using the Event Management, you can streamline event tracking, ensure that important tasks are performed on time, and stay updated about everything happening within your factory, whether it's related to specific points of interest or more general events.