Report Versions

Overview

Access: You can choose the version for your own report emails in your profile. With access to Timeline Analysis and the relevant machines, you can choose a version for an export. Only Administrators can open the report archive.

The Watchmen Platform offers Version 1 and Version 2 as Excel workbooks. Version 1 remains your email preference until you change it. You can switch in either direction at any time.

What You Can See

Under What you get, the list follows the selected tab. Download an example downloads that version with made-up data. The example is German when the interface is German and English for other interface languages.

What You Can Do

• Open your profile → Newsletter Preferences card → Newsletter report version. Choose Version 1 or Version 2, then Save Preferences at the top right of the card header.
• Open Timeline Analysis through Reports in the side menu. After choosing machines and dates, select Generate report → Download Report (XLSX). In the export dialog on the Timeline Analysis page, choose Report version, then Generate report for that export. Your current saved preference is selected each time the dialog opens. This export choice does not change your email preference.
• If you receive the introduction email, choose a version without signing in, then confirm it on the page that opens.

Follow choose, download and update reports.

What is in Version 2

Readable Tables

Columns fit their contents without shrinking text. Headings wrap between words. Numbers, dates and statuses stay complete; free text ends in “…” only when it cannot fit. Narrow day charts label days “Mon 19” instead of “Mon 19/10”. On Up next, long customer names can still end in “…”.

The machine table in Summary gives machine names room before other free text. If the main downtime reason still does not fit, that column is left out with the note The main downtime reason of each machine is on its own page and in the "Downtime" sheet. Very long machine names can still end in “…”.

The date column is now Delivery date. Work-center pages use Production time in intervals (previously Booked production time).

When Order Figures Appear

Version 2 shows order figures, the Orders sheet and Production without an order only when at least 5 intervals of real operations were recorded in the report period. Test orders do not count. Earlier periods do not count towards this minimum.

With fewer intervals, Get more out of this report with the PDA page appears in Summary, directly below What needs attention on the first page. With no intervals, it says No operations were recorded on the PDA page in this period, so this report has no order figures. With 3 intervals, for example, it says Only 3 intervals of operations were recorded on the PDA page in this period, so this report has no order figures.

When operations are started and stopped on the PDA page at every machine, this report also shows:

• Which orders and operations ran on each machine, with produced quantity and scrap.
• The time per piece compared with the plan.
• how many production hours belong to no order (production without an order)

For example, 4 intervals of real operations leave these figures out; 5 meet the minimum. The Summary → Work centers row and the work center’s page also show PDA page barely used in this period. Up next still shows planned work in eligible email reports because it does not depend on recorded intervals. Follow check missing order figures.

Test Orders

Version 2 excludes test orders from every order list and count, including Up next and the five-interval minimum. It recognises “test” in an order, customer or product name, regardless of capitalisation, as a word such as “TEST-01” or “test order”, or in names such as “Testauftrag”, “Testorder”, “Testprodukt”, “Testartikel”, “Testkunde” and “Testlauf”. Names such as “Contest”, “Testo” and “Testmann” are not excluded.

Test-order intervals still cover machine time when calculating Production without an order. Excluding the order from lists does not turn its recorded time into production without an order.

Summary

Start with How to read this report: at the top, then What needs attention. Up to 7 short findings each have an Open → link to the place to look. For example: “Lathe 3: OEE 70%, 6 pts below its target of 76%”. Findings draw attention to:

• A machine more than 5 points below its OEE, availability or performance target. The two biggest gaps name the machines; further machines are counted together.
• A shift clearly below another shift or clearly lower than in the previous period.
• Operations expected to miss delivery, from Up next in report emails only.
• Idle time up 10% or more from the previous period, or 20% or more of idle time without a reason.
• A machine with at least 20% of its production time and at least 2 hours without an operation interval. Both limits must be reached. See production without an order.
• A day more than 5 points below the period's average OEE, or the machine with the most uneven cycle times.

Grey findings then show the biggest downtime reason and the machine best against its target. The biggest-reason line is left out when almost no idle time has a reason.

Key figures show OEE, availability and performance with their targets, production time and idle time. Cycles appear when recorded; orders worked on and operations completed appear when the five-interval minimum is met. Each shows the change from the previous week, month or period. By shift compares each shift over all machines.

Daily charts show OEE, availability and performance with a dashed average target. How the time was used divides planned hours into Production, Preparation, Idle and Off. Other charts show Idle time by reason and Cycles per day, or How long the stops were when there are no cycles. Titles state the result, such as “Weakest day: Wed 14/10 at 51%”.

The machine table has a Target column beside each figure. A ● marks machines clearly below a target. Click a machine name to open its page.

When included, Production without an order appears immediately after the key-figure tiles. Its hint directs you to review these times under Improve intervals. You cannot yet add a new interval for a past time. If the time belongs to an operation immediately before or after it, you can extend that operation’s existing interval. The card shows hours, the share as 20 % of production time, for example, and the change vs. previous week, vs. previous month or vs. previous period.

Production without an order per machine shows hours per machine, biggest first. The title names the machine with the most hours, for example Lathe 3 has the most hours without an order (6.5 h). With none, the chart title is Every production hour was in an interval of an operation. The machine table includes Without order (h).

A machine’s chart bar and Without order (h) value turn orange when at least 20% of its production time and at least 2 hours were not covered by an operation interval. It also gets a line under What needs attention, for example Lathe 3: 6.5 h production without an order (31 % of its production), and under In focus on its own page. The summary card gets an orange stripe when the company total reaches both limits.

Days

Each grid shows one figure: OEE, availability, performance, production time in hours, idle time in hours or cycles. Machines are rows, days are columns, with a Target column and the period value at the end.

▲ means at or above the machine's target; ▼ means below. Orange means more than 5 points below target. Grey means no shift planned. Hours and cycles use shading: darker means more.

When included, Production without an order (h) shows hours per machine and day. Darker means more production time outside any interval.

Shifts

This sheet appears only when shifts are set. Otherwise, Summary says “No shifts are set for these machines, so the report shows no shift figures.”

By shift compares shifts and shows changes from the previous period in points. Charts show daily OEE, availability and performance by shift, how time was used, idle time by reason and cycles per day. Grids compare each machine and shift with a Target column. Each shift, day by day helps you find differences on individual days.

Downtime

See idle time by reason, which machine lost time to what, and idle time per day by reason. Daily comparisons show the five biggest reasons and group the rest as Other. Stop lengths show how long the stops were. This sheet appears when reasons or stops were recorded.

Automatically labelled breaks also appear under their downtime reasons. Labelling only the break can split one downtime into several parts, each counted separately in counts and averages by reason. Stop lengths can show the parts of a split downtime as separate, shorter stops. Total idle and off time stays the same. See automatic break labels in analysis.

Cycles

This sheet appears only when cycles were recorded. Otherwise, Summary says “No cycles were recorded in this period, so the report shows no cycle figures.” A machine without cycles shows No cycles recorded.

For each machine, compare cycle counts, average, median, fastest and slowest cycle times, how much cycle times vary, and the typical time between cycles. Charts show cycles and cycle time per day, and cycles by hour of the day.

Orders

Operations are grouped under a heading row per machine instead of a machine column. Click a heading to open that machine’s page. Work centers appear here too, with the same work-center icon as on the platform after their names.

See the operations worked on in the period, per machine: order, customer, Product, Operation sequence such as “#20”, and status in the platform's words, such as Completed or Handed over. The table includes production time, produced quantity, scrap, progress, minutes per piece against the plan, and Delivery date. Red marks more than 10% slower than planned.

Operations per machine and Production time by order show where work took place; the order chart shows the top ten. Operations handed over during the period count as completed but still show Handed over. Operation priority is on Up next, not this sheet.

Up next

Work-center names in the headings have the same work-center icon as on the platform after them.

This sheet appears only in weekly and monthly report emails, never in exports. It shows the planner's forecast when the report was built, for the 7 days after the period.

For each operation, read the queue number, order, customer, product, operation sequence, priority such as “OP150”, status, remaining quantity and hours, expected start and end, and On time?. The header says “Forecast from … It changes when the plan changes.” A footer counts operations that start later or have no forecast yet. See planned work in email reports for how this outlook is kept.

One Page per Machine

Each machine has its own tab named after it, with ← Summary to return. In focus gives up to 3 findings, such as “OEE more than 5 pts below its target on 3 of 5 days; weakest Wed 14/10 at 58%”.

Tiles compare OEE, availability and performance with the machine's targets, for example “▼ 4 pts below target 60%”. Other tiles show production time, idle time with its biggest reason, cycles, operations worked on and energy, with how much of it was wasted.

Three daily charts show OEE, availability and performance with dashed targets. Further charts show how time was used, idle time by reason and cycles per day. By shift compares this machine's shifts.

In Day by day, each day is bold with its shifts below. Read energy, energy wasted and the main downtime reason alongside the day's figures. If the main downtime reason would not fit, the report first leaves out the daily wasted energy column, then the energy column. A note below the table directs you to All data: Wasted energy per day is in the "All data" sheet. or Energy per day is in the "All data" sheet. The closing rows are Average, days with data and Average, Monday to Friday. Operations on this machine follows the daily figures.

When included, the Production without an order card shows hours and the share of production time. Without order (h) in Day by day appears on day rows only, not shift rows.

After Day by day, Longest stretches without an order lists up to five stretches, longest first, with Day, From – to and Without order (h). The hint says Also listed on the platform under "Improve intervals". A new interval for a past time cannot be added yet; if a time belongs to an operation that ran right before or after it, extend that operation's interval. With no stretches, it says Every production hour of this machine was in an interval of an operation.

Work Centers

A work center has no sensor. The report shows only its operations, from their intervals, with no OEE, availability, performance, machine states or cycles for it anywhere. It is excluded from machine tiles, findings and the machine table in Summary, and from Days, Shifts, Downtime, Cycles and All data. Production without an order also excludes work centers.

In Summary, Work centers follows the machine table. It shows Work center, Operations, Completed, Orders, Production in intervals (h), Preparation (h), Produced and Scrap. Preparation (h) appears only when there was preparation. Click a name to open its page. These hours come from operation intervals, not sensor measurements.

Each work-center page has a purple tab. Its subtitle shows work center, hall and period, separated by dots. A sentence explains why there is no OEE. The tiles show:

• Operations worked on, with the completed count, such as 3 completed.
• Orders worked on.
• Production time in intervals, with preparation hours when present, such as Preparation 1 h.
• Produced, with Scrap when recorded.

Then Operations on this work center lists its operations, from their intervals.

With fewer than 5 intervals of real operations across the report period, excluding test orders, the Summary → Work centers row and the work center’s page show PDA page barely used in this period. Once that minimum is met, a work center without operations shows No operation intervals in this period in the row and This work center has no operation intervals in this period. on its page.

The same work-center icon as on the platform appears after its name in the Orders and Up next headings, the Work centers section and the page title. Notes also shows the icon beside its explanation. See Work Centers.

All data

Use one filterable table with a row per machine, day and shift for your own filters and pivot tables. Columns fit their text. When included, Without order (h) appears on day rows only.

Notes

Read what each figure means and how averages are calculated. Colours and symbols explains the marks used throughout the workbook. The Production without an order entry explains the term when it is included.

Production Without an Order

Production without an order is production time during which no interval of an operation was running on the machine. Version 2 counts stretches of at least 5 minutes, using the same rule as Improve intervals. The hours for a day never exceed that day’s production time.

These figures appear only if your company recorded at least 5 intervals of real operations in the report period, excluding test orders. Work centers are excluded. A missing section does not mean every production hour was covered by an interval.

Use Summary → Production without an order to see the hours, share and change from the previous period. For example, 2 hours without an operation interval out of 10 production hours is 20%. The machine’s bar in Production without an order per machine and its Without order (h) value turn orange when both 20% and 2 hours are reached. It is also listed under What needs attention and In focus. The company card gets an orange stripe when its total reaches both limits.

Open the machine’s page and review Longest stretches without an order. Check what was worked before correcting intervals. The hint directs you to Improve intervals. Its Production without an order notice is information only. You cannot yet add a new interval for a past time. If that time belongs to an operation immediately before or after it, you can extend the existing interval by adjusting its start or end. Follow review production without an order.

How to read colours and symbols

• The target is the machine's rating, the same rating used in Version 1.
• ▲ means at or above target; ▼ means below target.
• Orange always means “look here”: more than 5 points below target, late work, slower than plan, uneven cycle times, the biggest reason or the weakest day.
• Grey means no shift planned.
• Shading means less → more, never good or bad.
• A dashed line is the target.
• Machine states are Production, Preparation, Idle and Off.

Averages use only days with planned time and data. The company average gives each machine equal weight. Days without planned shifts do not count against targets or averages, so results can differ from the Version 1 overview. Figures include the machine's current state in the same way as the platform's day, week and month views.

Planned Work in Email Reports

Up next records the plan when the report is first created. Rebuilding with current data keeps that outlook as it was; it does not replace it with today's plan. If a forecast is unavailable, planned dates are used and the sheet says so. The outlook is omitted when the period ended more than 7 days before the report was created.

Confirm Your Choice from an Email

You may receive an email titled “A new version of your machine report is available”. It has two Version 2 attachments with your own machines and figures, both in your language: last week's report first, then last month's. The email names both periods. It asks “Which version would you like to receive?” and offers Get the new version (Version 2) and Keep my current report (Version 1). Nothing changes until you choose.

Either button opens a Watchmen page titled Newsletter report version, without requiring sign-in. Confirm once with the same button text. Opening the link alone makes no change. After confirmation, the page shows Done. From the next report on, you get the new version (Version 2). or Done. You keep getting your current report (Version 1)., followed by Open my profile. You can switch in either direction later.

The choice links are personal and expire after 60 days. An expired link shows This link has expired. You can choose the version in your profile. and Open my profile. Use your profile for an invalid or incomplete link too. You may need to sign in to open your profile. See User Profile.

Your Weekly and Monthly Report Emails

Each person receives the version they chose, one report email per week or month. Switching in the middle of a week never causes a second email. Version 1 emails are unchanged.

Version 2 report emails end with:

This is the new version of your report (Version 2). You can switch back to your previous report at any time in your profile under Newsletter report version.

Follow the profile link to change your choice.

Limits

• Both versions are Excel workbooks.
• Sections depend on the available records. Without cycles, cycle figures are omitted and the report explains why. With fewer than 5 intervals of real operations in the period, excluding test orders, there is no orders sheet or order figures. Without shifts, the shift overview is omitted with a note.
• Exports contain work from the selected period and have no Up next sheet.
• Your version preference applies to both weekly and monthly report emails. You still need the corresponding newsletter subscription to receive them.
• Scheduled emails contain your chosen version. Changing versions does not send a second scheduled email for a period you already received.

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