The iMonitor Viewer area of the Analytics client application is where you set up one or more dashboards as a slide show to run during production to provide valuable, real-time manufacturing data to factory floor personnel.
Each dashboard you select is one slide in a slide show and you can combine multiple dashboards into a slide show. For example, you might design a slide show with multiple dashboards/slides related to each specific factory area, then set up additional slide shows for other factory area data such as Inspection, Re-Work/Repair, and Packout. The following example uses four dashboards with Assembly-related data for a slide show. Across the bottom of the window you can see the dashboard names Mechanical Shop Floor, Assembly Workstation, Mechanical Assembly 1, and Mechanical Assembly 2. Each dashboard/slide will display for 60 seconds.
Dashboard types
There are three types of dashboards:
- Live dashboards display real-time manufacturing information that is updated continuously to reflect shop floor activity in real-time.
- Operational dashboards use a chart created in DataMiner and display it as part of a slide show along with other dashboards. These dashboards are updated at an interval, such as every 15 minutes, for example. Operational dashboards typically display bar chart data.
- Dashboard slide shows are the slide shows you save in iMonitor Viewer using the Save As command. Once saved, you can open a slide show in the viewer and run it using the saved slide display timing information and other options.
Set up, run, and save a slide show
- Log into the Analytics client application, then select iMonitor Viewer.
- Select the Dashboard button in the upper-left corner of the window.
On the Live Dashboards tab, select a dashboard to use for the slide show, then select Open.
Note icon false title Note: Optionally, you can select an Operational dashboard or previously-saved dashboard slide show using the other tabs in the Dashboard Selection dialog.
- To add more dashboards/slides to the slide show, repeat Step 3.
- When you are finished selecting dashboards/slides, select Close.
- Select the Options button to display slide show settings.
Under Display Time (seconds), select the number of seconds each dashboard/slide will display, then select OK to return to the iMonitor Viewer window.
Note icon false title Note: Each dashboard can have a different display time—these settings will override the Slide display time (seconds) setting in the iMonitor Viewer window.
- (Optional) Next to Slide display time (seconds), enter the number of seconds all dashboards/slides will be displayed. (If you selected different timings in Step 7, this setting will be ignored.)
- Select the Start button to begin the slide show.
- To stop the slide show, select the Stop button.
- With the slide show still open, select the Save As button at the top of the iMonitor window.
Name the slide show, then select Save.
Note icon false title Note: You can also open and run a dashboard from iMonitor Designer. See Preview/run a dashboard for more information.
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