1143100 SmartPAC PRO User Manual
Appendix C – Reporting Downtime and Scrap to SFC 261
Setting up SmartPAC PRO to Report Downtime
To set up SmartPAC PRO to report downtime to SFC, you make downtime reporting settings on the
Set Communications Menu. You program downtime reasons in one of two ways, depending on the
setting you select in the DIALOG SCREEN MODE field on the Set Communications Menu (see
Table C - 1, page 263).
When the default setting “16 / 16” is selected, you create downtime reasons on the Dialog Special
Choice Name and Dialog Fixed Name Choice menus, which you access via the SET SPECIAL
NAMES and SET CANNED NAMES items on the Set Communications Menu.
When you select the DIALOG SCREEN MODE setting of “32 CUSTOM,” you create downtime
reasons in SFC and download them to the SmartPAC PRO. The SET SPECIAL NAMES and SET
CANNED NAMES items do not display when the “32 CUSTOM” option is selected.
NOTICE
Wintriss recommends that you select the “32 CUSTOM” setting if your shop floor uses only
SmartPAC PRO controls. The “16 / 16” setting should be selected only if you have a mix of
SmartPAC PROs and SmartPAC 2 and/or original SmartPACs and want to maintain consistency in
your downtime reporting method.
The “32 CUSTOM” setting provides two advantages. All downtime reasons can be customized to
meet the specific needs of your shop floor setup (up to 32 custom names can be created in SFC
Administrator), and you can include all reasons in the Downtime by Reason report, which allows you
to track occurrences of a specific downtime reason across multiple machines.
With the “16 / 16” setting you can create only 16 custom reasons (the other 16 are “canned”), and
only the custom reasons can be included in the Downtime by Reason report. The report cannot be
generated for “canned” reasons.
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