How to Use the Menu Options

The search bar shown below allows the user to take advantage of filtering functionality available in other Whiteboard views. This allows for certain downtime reasons or machine states to be isolated or excluded from the view (such as blocked or starved) via a series of commands for the downtime pareto only.

Figure 14-4: Search Bar

The menu options shown below also give the user various ways to customize the view to better fit their requirements:

Figure 14-5: Line Summary

The default setting is for Snap to Shift to be set to YES but changing it to NO will bring up the option to specify a custom start and end time. Changing the Offset to a positive or negative whole number will move the time frame forward or backwards respectively.

The portion of the view that resembles the Layout view has the same Shift Statistics options as the Layout view itself which lets the user adjust whether they see each metric in the Line Summary view.

An option to toggle the Line Layout view to either the grid view, regular line layout or turned off entirely with the default being the Line Layout setting. The ability to toggle the number of gauges from two to zero will be added with both gauges visible as the default. The option to toggle shift statistics for the layout view will also be available with the default being all shift statistics enabled. Gauge settings will also allow the user to specify the color coding for both the OEE and Scrap gauges based on targets.