Station dashboard

The Station Dashboard is available through the Operations portal. This dashboard displays the station status, quality charts, and sampling plans.

The Station Dashboard has the following main areas.

1: Station settings

The station settings are in a pane that can be expanded to change settings and collapsed to view the control charts more easily.

When the station is on, you can do the following.

Product/Process: Select which product and process to monitor. Many products and processes can use the same station, and each combination has its own sampling plans and control charts.
Status: Select whether the online station is Running, Idle, or Shutdown.
Sampling Plans: Lists the sampling plans for the current product, process, and station.
For on-demand and scheduled collections, select Start to open the data collection form. Open the Settings to skip the next collection.

2: Chart and date selector

Toggle between the control charts and Pareto charts for each measure of the station.

Specify the start time for this dashboard. Generally, this view is for the last 4 hours of data, but can show up to 60 days of data.

3: Pause or resume data collection

Select Pause Data to pause the station data at any time. Select Resume Data to continue collecting data at this station.

Open the Settings

to the change the control chart display options.

4: Chart data

Displays the control charts or Pareto charts for each measure. You can access and edit the data from this view. For more information, go to Edit observations.

Also indicates the percentage of plotted points that are out-of-specification, out-of-action, or out-of-control. For more information on these calculations, go to Current Performance Summary.

Note

Real-Time SPC may limit the amount of data that is shown in the control charts to ensure optimum readability. To display more data, if available, select the link in the footer of the chart.