Shop Floor User Guide

1. Set your shifts

Shifts are optional, but set them first if you run them: run time is filed under the shift it happened in from the moment it is recorded.

1. 1
   Open Settings

   Click Settings at the top right of the floor view.
2. 2
   Add each shift

   Under Shifts, click + Add shift, then enter its name, start and end time, and the days it runs.
3. 3
   Check the production day

   Under Production day, set Day starts at to when your first shift starts (default 6:00 AM). Click Save settings.

2. Add a machine

1. 1
   Click + Add asset

   On the floor view, click + Add asset.
2. 2
   Name it and pick a picture

   Enter a Name, choose a Group (or + New group…), and pick the picture that matches the machine.
3. 3
   Choose its sensor

   Under Sensor, click the sensor input on this machine. Only sensors that can tell running from stopped are listed; inputs already used by another machine are greyed out.

3. Set up its sensor

1. 1
   Start the sensor setup

   Under When is it running?, click Set up the sensor. Setup opens in its own window and walks you through the steps for that sensor type; Sensor Setup describes each one.
2. 2
   Finish with the check

   The last step asks you to start the machine. Setup finishes by itself with Setup complete as soon as Shop Floor sees it running.
3. 3
   Save the machine

   Click Save asset. Run time starts counting from now; enter Hours already on the machine first if you want All time to match the machine’s own hour meter.

Run time view

The header shows the date, the current shift and its hours, and the time. Below it, the state counters total the machines in the selected tab. Click a counter to show only those machines; click it again, or Show all, to clear the filter.

The tabs below the counters are your groups. Each tile shows:

• The machine’s name, group and picture, coloured by its state.
• Its state and how long it has been in it (for 2h 14m), or when its sensor was last heard from.
• Run time for the period chosen in Settings (Today by default), with a bar showing what share of that period it has run so far.
• Cycles for the same period: how many times the machine started.
• A red border and the alert text, such as Stopped longer than 1h, when a Stopped too long alert is active.
• A Service due badge when the machine’s service hours are used up.

Click a tile to open the machine page.

Service view

Service swaps the tiles for one service card per machine, soonest due first. When any machine is due, the Service button carries a count, such as 1 due.

The counters become filters: Due now, Due soon (7 days) and Not due. Machines without a service interval appear under All machines as Not tracked; clicking one opens its form to set an interval.

Run time and cycles

The header shows the machine’s state and since when, and its service status (Service in 120 h · about Mar 4, 2027 (in 112 days)). Edit asset opens its form.

If you have shifts, the Shift bar narrows everything below it to one shift, or to Outside shifts. All shifts is the default.

The period cards show run time for Today, This week, This month, This quarter, This year and All time, each with its cycle count. Today also shows the share of the day so far; the longer periods show the average per day. Click a card to chart that period below it, and switch the chart between Run time and Cycles.

Day view

Below the chart, Day view shows one production day. Step between days with the arrows or pick a date. Everything in it follows the selected day and shift.

• Timeline — the day as a bar: running, stopped and no signal, with the time outside the selected shift dimmed.
• Sensor reports — every report the sensor sent, as Running or Stopped, with the periods Shop Floor counted as running shaded green. Drag the bar under the chart to zoom into a stretch of time, drag the window to move along the day, and double-click the bar or click Reset zoom to see the whole day. Full screen opens the same chart, keeping the zoom; Esc closes it.
• At a glance — Run time, Stopped, Cycles, Average run, Longest run and First start.
• Activity — each start and stop, newest first, with how long it lasted.

Service

The Service panel appears when the machine has a service interval. It shows the hours since the last service against the interval, the estimated due date and what the estimate is based on (at 3.2 h a day, its average over the last 30 days), and the last service.

1. 1
   When the service is done, click Reset service hours

   Optionally enter who did it in Done by.
2. 2
   Click Reset to 0 h

   Hours since service go back to 0, the Service due badge clears, and the service is added to Service history.

Another app can do the same through the service.reset action, for example when a maintenance ticket is closed (see Integration).

Sensor

The Sensor panel shows whether the sensor was set up with Shop Floor (a green check and the date), its type and input, what it is set to, and its signal, battery and last report.

Machine, picture and sensor

Delete machine, on an existing machine’s form, asks for confirmation and deletes its run-time history too. The sensor keeps its settings.

When is it running?

This section holds the sensor setup. Once a sensor has been set up, a green Sensor configured panel lists what it is set to, and Set up again repeats setup. Two fields sit below it:

Service

Below the fields, Shop Floor shows the hours until service and, once the machine has some history, the estimated due date.

Alerts

Two optional alerts, each switched on with its toggle.

Stopped too long

Alert after it has been stopped for 15 min, 30 min, 1 h, 2 h (default) or 4 h, during a scheduled shift (default), during one shift only, or at any time. Only stopped time inside the window counts. The alert clears by itself when the machine starts.

Service due

Comes on when the machine’s service hours are used up and stays on until they are reset. It needs a service interval.

Vibration sensors

For the Machine Runtime Hour Meter’s vibration input. Shop Floor turns on the sensor’s raw accelerometer readings, measures the machine off and then running, and sets the vibration threshold between the two.

1. 1
   Machine off

   Is the machine off? Make sure it is, then click Next — it’s off.
2. 2
   Off readings

   Reset the sensor now as shown: touch a magnet to the sensor’s case, as in the video. The sensor takes the measuring settings within a few seconds and Shop Floor collects three off-state readings, about 10 seconds apart. This moves on by itself.
3. 3
   Start machine

   Start the asset now, running the way it normally runs. Wait until it is up to its normal speed, then click Next — it’s running. Nothing is measured until you click, and a reading taken while it is still starting looks like an off reading.
4. 4
   Running readings

   Shop Floor collects running readings (minimum 3). If how hard the machine works varies, wait for more before clicking Next.
5. 5
   Threshold

   A bar chart shows every reading, off and running, with the suggested threshold as a line between them. Drag the line or its handle, or use Line up and Line down, to move it; it snaps to the sensor’s 32 mg steps. Running above shows the value. You can turn the machine off now. Measure again starts over.

Current sensors

For the AC Current Detection Sensor. The sensor cannot report how many amps it sees, only whether the current is above its threshold. So Shop Floor finds the right threshold by asking: it sets a test threshold, the sensor restarts and reports whether the machine’s current trips it, and Shop Floor narrows in. Each test takes about 8 seconds and a search takes about a minute. This needs Atrium 2.8.0.

1. 1
   Start machine

   Start the machine and keep it running. Current clamp (CT) on the sensor is read from the sensor; change it only if the clamp fitted is a different size. Click Next — it’s running.
2. 2
   Running current

   Press the reset button on the sensor now. Each test threshold appears as it is tried, with whether it trips. The step ends with, for example, Running, it trips the sensor up to 37 A. Keep the machine running until then.
3. 3
   Stop machine

   Now stop the machine — or leave it idling the way it sits between jobs, so the threshold ends up above its idle current. Click Next — it’s stopped, or Skip — it draws nothing when stopped.
4. 4
   Stopped current

   Press the reset button again. The same search runs with the machine stopped and ends with, for example, Stopped, it still trips the sensor up to 6 A.
5. 5
   Threshold

   Running when the current is above, in whole amps, starts at the midpoint between the two, which leaves the most room for load changes. Adjust it with − and +; Shop Floor warns if the value would trip with the machine stopped, would miss it running, or if the two are close for this clamp.

Contact and counter inputs

Contact inputs, production counters and the Machine Uptime Monitoring Sensor’s contact, opto and magnetic inputs need no measuring: the input is either on or off. Setup goes straight to Settings. At the check, if the machine runs but Shop Floor shows it stopped, the input is wired the other way round: set Running when the input is to Off (open).

Settings, send and check

The last steps are the same for every sensor.

Settings

When nothing changes, how often should the sensor check in? This decides battery life, and how soon a silent sensor shows No signal.

Starts and stops are reported the moment they happen, whatever the check-in interval. Vibration and current sensors ignore on/off flickers shorter than 1 second. Contact and counter inputs also offer a reporting speed (Fast, Balanced, Battery saver or Custom). The machine fields from When is it running? are repeated here.

Review and send

Review lists every setting that will change on the sensor, old value to new, and the threshold even when it is already set. Send to the sensor queues them; reset the sensor as shown (magnet or reset button) so it takes them now, or wait for its next check-in. This moves on by itself once the sensor has them.

Check

Turn on the asset/equipment now. Setup finishes by itself with Setup complete as soon as Shop Floor sees the machine running, usually within a few seconds of starting. If it does not, a link appears after 15 seconds: The machine is running but isn’t being detected? It offers to adjust the threshold and send it again.

Advanced settings

Advanced — edit the sensor’s settings directly, on the machine’s form, lists every setting the sensor has, as the sensor reports it, and lets you change any of them. Values are checked against what the sensor accepts; network settings are not editable here. Changes are sent the same way as setup’s, and apply at the sensor’s next check-in or when you reset it.

Machine tiles

Production day

Shifts

+ Add shift adds a row: Shift name, start and end time, and Days. The arrows reorder shifts. A shift that ends after midnight belongs to the day it started. Time outside every shift is still recorded, as Outside shifts. Shop Floor warns if two shifts overlap.

Shift changes apply from now on; run time already recorded keeps the shifts it was recorded under. To file today’s run time under the new shifts as well, tick Also apply these to today’s run time before saving.

Groups and lost sensors

Groups are the tabs on the floor view, in the order listed here. + Add group adds one; renaming keeps its machines. Deleting a group keeps its machines: they stay under All machines.

Lost sensors: Show No signal after 2, 3 (default), 4, 5 or 10 missed reports, counted at each sensor’s own check-in interval. Run time stops counting while a sensor is silent, so a dead battery never adds time. If the sensor comes back, its own running counter fills in the time it ran meanwhile.