Run Data Acquisition (PDA)

Open the PDA from Machine Details. If you are already viewing another machine's PDA, select its name in the top navigation bar and choose the target machine from the list grouped by hall. Only machines you can access appear.

Review open assignments or use a time-window view, then select the job to work on. Check the operation sequence number and available operation or assignment notes for context. Assignment columns and sorting can be personalized.

If the required operation is not planned and the template allows Add orders on the machine, search for it and assign it directly. Otherwise, ask your planner to assign the work.

Start or mark preparation depending on the current shop-floor situation. If another assignment is already running, review the warning before continuing.

Stop the work interval when the run finishes or pauses.

Enter good quantity, material scrap, and work scrap. Continue books and starts a new interval immediately; Stop books and ends it. When Planned quantity reached appears after Stop, choose Complete or Keep on hold. See Review Quantities and Completion.

Apply timeline reasons if downtime or special events need explanation. Review idle and stopped entries after switching between running, paused, and stopped states to check that the record reflects what happened.

Review open tickets or knowledge entries when the issue requires support context.

Select the step's card. Create changes to Back to pool. Choose Back to pool. To create work instead, tap the selected card again to clear the selection.

If the step is running, the normal stop dialog opens with Stop first – then back to pool at the bottom. Enter good parts and scrap, then stop. Complete or close any PDA Assist time choice. The return dialog opens afterwards. Closing the stop dialog or booking without stopping cancels the return sequence.

In Send back to the pool, an unstarted step moves as a whole. For started work, check Planned, Done here, and Left. Quantity left suggests planned quantity minus good parts; scrap does not reduce it. Change it for parts that must be made again, or leave it empty if unknown. If all planned parts are made, finish the step instead unless more are needed. Add Reason (optional) so the next operator knows why the work was returned.

Check the destination and quantity, then confirm Back to pool. There is no automatic undo for a handover. The selection clears and a confirmation appears at the bottom. The whole unstarted step, or the remainder of started work, goes to the top of the hall pool. Another machine in the hall can claim it as usual. For started work, choose the third view tab with the history icon, Time Window + All Statuses, to find the handed-over part. It shows all steps in the chosen date window, including completed and cancelled ones. All Open and Time Window + Open hide the handed-over part. The original part is marked Handed over. Its times and good parts stay on this machine.

On Data Acquisition V3, tap PDA Assist at the right edge. It appears only while at least one assistance option or warning is on. Read what it does on this machine.

Read Right now. An amber dot means automatic ending is counting down. Green means there is no countdown; a brief glow follows a time correction. Check the order and remaining minutes against what is happening on the machine.

If work should remain open, ask an administrator to turn off Auto-end forgotten intervals and select Save in the machine settings. Snoozing a warning or muting sound does not stop it. Follow Configure a Machine.

Use the normal start or stop action. Assistance must be enabled for this machine. If a choice appears, compare Now and After and read which order gains or loses time.

Choose an offered time or expand Other times for earlier options. The most recent choices come first. Use the information icon beside the title to learn why data gaps under 10 minutes and interruptions under 2 minutes are ignored. Keep the time you pressed if no suggestion fits. Closing the initial dialog also keeps it. If a choice is no longer usable, keep the pressed time or try again.

Use Undo in the adjustment notice to restore the pressed time. Change… opens the options; choose another time or Back to the time you pressed. The timeline updates immediately.

An Auto-ended interval needs a quantity check. Book missing quantities afterwards. Snoozing or muting warnings does not prevent automatic ending; ask an administrator to change Auto-end forgotten intervals if needed.

In Data Acquisition V3, open the order's interval list. Tap a start or end time once to open Edit interval on Start or End. Select the pencil to start on Quantities. From Order Management, open the interval's menu and choose Edit interval; this also opens Quantities.

Read the order, interval number, type, times, and quantities in the summary. Dates use day/month when shown, for example 20/10. Still running means the interval has no end yet.

Choose Start or End. On a touch screen, turn the day, hour, and minute wheels. On a computer, use − and + or type hours and minutes. −5 min and +5 min work on either device: two taps on +5 min move the time forward ten minutes. The other time stays visible on its card; tap it to switch sides. For a running interval, use the normal stop action before correcting its end.

Under Quantities, enter Good qty., Material Scrap, and Work Scrap with the keyboard or touch number pad. If cumulative mode is selected, enter the full machine counter reading. Choose Production or Preparation if the saved type is wrong. A running interval cannot switch to a type already running on the same order.

Switching tabs keeps your edits. Check the changed times, the new duration beside New length: when both times exist, and any proposed type change in the summary. Select Save. Interval saved. confirms success; the table and timeline update. Use Cancel to discard edits before saving. If you already selected Save, check the table: cancelling cannot undo a save that finishes afterwards.

Open Data Acquisition V3 settings. Under Timeline display, turn Show intervals in graph on or off to suit the detail you want in the graph.

Under Auto-refresh interval, choose how often assignments and hall pools refresh automatically.

Use the gear icon in the top bar to open Card Display Settings → Sort Order. Enable Sort by Queue Position to display the order set by dragging assignments, or turn it off to choose sorting rules.

Choose a rule such as priority or date and choose ascending or descending order. The rules form a numbered list: rule 1 decides first, and later rules break ties. To change their precedence, change the selection in a line’s list, remove a rule with the red remove button, or add a line with Add sort rule.

With Sort by Queue Position on, choose Running and on-hold orders → Keep in place to follow the saved queue, or At the top to bring active work first. With queue sorting off, use Add sort rule, select Running and on-hold orders, and choose At the top or At the bottom. This rule stays first.

Orders marked ⚠️ wait for an earlier step. With queue sorting on, choose Orders waiting on a previous operation → At the bottom to put them after other work, or Keep in place to keep their queue placement. With queue sorting off, add Waiting on a previous operation and choose At the bottom or At the top. It comes after the running-order rule, if present, and before priority or date.

To use the company choices, select Reset to company sorting. A tick means the mode and rules already match and the button is unavailable. With no company default, use Reset to default (no company default set yet) for standard choices. Reset replaces rules, so add any running- or waiting-order rules again afterwards. It keeps your queue-mode choices for these groups.

Select Save. Check the machine list and Pool. The running-order choice starts at Keep in place; waiting work is only moved when you choose it. Once earlier steps finish, waiting work joins work that can start at the next refresh. These display choices are saved for your account. Saving other display changes keeps you following the company sorting; saving your own sorting or a reset keeps those values even if the company default changes later.

Open the stop dialog for the running operation. Enter good parts, material scrap, and work scrap. Tap the information icon if you need the button explanations.

Cancel closes without booking. Continue books quantities, ends this interval and starts a new one immediately, without asking about completion. Choose Stop to book and end the running interval.

Finish or close any PDA Assist time choice first. Planned quantity reached then appears if good parts plus all scrap across the operation’s intervals reach or exceed the plan. For example, 97 good parts and 3 material scrap reach 100 planned. Check the named operation and its quantities.

Choose the preselected Complete when all parts are booked, or Keep on hold to book missing parts later. Closing the question also keeps the operation on hold. Check Operation completed or Operation on hold in the notice. Reaching the quantity alone does not complete it.

Choose the fourth view mode, Recently completed. Check the order, operation sequence, product, completion time, and quantities. These cards are read-only; choose Set on hold on the required card.

Under Put in queue, choose By company sorting, At the top, or At the bottom. With company sorting, read the rules beneath the choices. Without saved company sorting, that option is unavailable. Your last successful choice is remembered. Otherwise, company sorting is preselected when available, and the top when it is not. Priorities and dates stay unchanged.

Check the operation and choose Set on hold. To leave it completed, tap outside the confirmation. After success, the card leaves the completed list.

Choose Show in the notice. All Open opens with the operation selected and on hold. You can book more parts. Check the Reopened badge and its explanation on the PDA or Planner card for who reopened it, when, and its placement.

Select View all warnings. In Active warnings, read the order, duration, and issue. If Live data is stale appears, other warnings may be unreliable; use Refresh now and check whether fresh data arrives.

Use the available action after checking the machine and order. Select an order helps find the work that should be running. End order lets you end a forgotten running order. Set downtime reason takes you to the reason selection. Confirm that the recorded work matches what happened.

Snooze one warning or choose Snooze all to hide and silence reminders for the configured duration. They remain listed under Snoozed. Use Resume now to bring one back sooner. If the cause persists, it returns when the snooze ends.

Choose Enable sound or Mute. Tap the page once to allow browser sound. If it remains silent, ask an administrator to check sound settings, severity, and active-shift restrictions in Machine Configuration. Info warnings are always silent.