STATUS TRACKING SCREEN


STATUS TRACKING SCREEN

The status screen for tracking systems displays the line speed, tracking window, the part distance travel, jobs being tracked, and the last job run time. The status of the current and next jobs are also displayed.

Table 1.  Line Tracking Status Items

Status Items Description

Line Speed

This item defines the speed of the conveyor in millimeters per second (mm/s).

Track Window

This item defines the current active boundary number of the current tracking schedule.

Part Travel from Detect (mm)

This item defines the distance from the part after passing the body detect switch. This value is updated approximately every 0.5 seconds.

Part Travel from Robot (mm)

This item defines the distance from the part to the robot zero position. If the robot is rail tracking, the zero position is the center of the rail in most cases.

Part Dist to Outbound (mm)

This item represents the distance in millimeters to the downstream boundary (outbound) of the currently selected boundary set.

Jobs Being Tracked

This item is the number of jobs being tracked including the current job being executed. This value is updated when the job begins executing.

Last Job Run Time

This item displays the current cycle time from the last executed job. This field will always be cleared when production mode is entered.

Status

This item indicates status of the current operation.

Curr Job

This item indicates the name and comment of the currently executing job.

Curr Proc

This item indicates the name and comment of the currently executing process.

Next Job

This item indicates the name and comment of the next job to be executed.