Digital Shift Book
Digital handover records, checklists, audit protocols and much more
Features in an overview: central dashboard with all events, tasks, shift handovers, whiteboard, directives, shift planning and much more!
Central Dashboard
Plant status und shift events at a glance
Email reports
Notification via Email
Forms
Freely configurable forms
Personal Infoboard
Actual tasks and directives
SPS/PLS
Standardized OPC interfaces
Windows API
Registration via AD coupling
Personal tasks
Administration of personal tasks
Plant efficiency
Review of the plant efficiency
Plant status
Review of the plant status
Report generation
Creation of daily/monthly reports
Digital shift handover
Efficient & complete
Recording shift events
Manually or automated
Digital signatures
For shift handover & check lists
Task management
Automatically from events
Digital check lists
Tours, quality data, maintenance and much more
Rights management
Central administration of user and group rights
Plant Historian SB - Digital Shift Book
Digital Collection and Documentation of Shift Events - also available as a Web Version
The MES software Plant Historian SB - Shift Book - records all shift information completely for the entire production chain and supports paperless working in all areas of production, maintenance or in the warehouse.
- Standard forms for the recording of events, tasks, shift handovers, whiteboard, instructions
- Digital check lists - freely configurable forms, e.g. for quality data (QM), maintenance, tours, etc.
- Intuitive and flexible management of the views
- Filter, group, sort entries
- Flexible saving of filters in user- or group-related layouts
- Notifications - e.g. about my open tasks or current whiteboard entries
- Data export - e.g. for further processing of data in Excel (simple Excel reports) or Power BI
- Shift handover acknowledgement function
- Automate processes / workflow engine, e.g. automated shift book entry in case of machine failure, plausibility check, escalation logic in case of value violation
- Full integration into the Plant Historian world: coupling with alarm management, process data archiving, iScan ...
- Interfaces: LDAP, SQL, ERP, OPC (SPS/PLS), REST, QR codes, cameras, RFID
- Available extensions: digital checklists, shift planning, reporting module, complete integration into the PCS7 world
As a result, the time required for recording, reporting and research can be reduced, process quality increased, machine utilisation optimized and error costs reduced.
digital - complete - time-saving
Core Features - Digital Shift Book
Dashboard
- At a glance: overview of all events, tasks, shift handovers, whiteboard entries, instructions
- Filter entries by time period
- Forecast of current developmentsh
- General filter options, e.g. by entry type (event, task, instruction, ...), shift, attachment, status, agent, ...
- Opening of entries directly from the dashboard
- Create and save user- or group-specific dashboard layouts
Standard forms
- Standard shift book forms: events, tasks, shift handovers, whiteboard, instructions
- Classification of entries in events, tasks, shift handovers, whiteboard entries, directives
- Standard shift books freely configurable (data fields, field sequence, data types, etc.)
- Task management: derivation of person-related tasks from events, e.g. for required maintenance activities
- Status display for each shift book: number of open entries and entries in progress
- The standard shift book forms are included in the Plant Historian SB basic licence
Freely configurable forms
- Forms / input masks freely confiurable
- Multiple data types: free text, numbers, fixed value lists, binary, file upload
- Recording of measurement and tolerance ranges
- Any sequence of fields
- Structure of area hierarchies, e.g. production, quality control
- Free text search function for navigation
- Navigation can be customised for specific users or groups, e.g. employees in production only see "downtime recording" and " plant log".
Intuitive and flexible operation
- Time filter by date/time or shift (shift times configurable)
- Create filters and groups of any complexity
- Function is available for each entry field/column
- Filter builder: compile filters and groups of any complexity with various logics and operators (if, and, or, >=, <= etc.)
- Sorting function: chronological or alphabetical in ascending or descending order depending on field type
- Time filter for each field of date/time type
Flexible layout saving
- Create and save user or group specific layouts based on the current filters, groupings and sorting
- Examples:
- Layout „All system incidents of the last month"
- Layout „CIP list for facility 1“
- Layout „All open tasks" in the "Distillation" unit“"
Notifications
- Notification of open tasks (bell symbol), person or group related
- Notification of current whiteboard entries and instructions
- Counter for the number of notifications (e.g. number of my open tasks)
Data export for ad hoc evaluations
- Excel export for further processing of data in Excel, e.g. for simple ad hoc evaluations in Excel included in the basic licence
- Add-on: automatic reporting, e.g. for daily, weekly and monthly reports with e-mailing to predefined recipients
- Data export on the basis of current or saved layouts or the current table filters, groups, sorting
- Transfer of all groupings to Excel export files
- Data export via REST interface for evaluation e.g. in Power BI
Confirmation function for shift handover
- Confirmation of shift handover by password entry of the shift supervisor
- Confirmation function can be used for all scenarios that require personal confirmation and documentation, e.g. release of CIP activities by team leaders
- Forecast: confirmation by means of plant ID card (RFID) or digital signature
Automate processes / workflow engine
- Fast process automation using an integrated low-code workflow engine
- Mapping if-then scenarios
- Automation across several interfaces / applications, e.g. machine control, process control system, third-party systems (ERP, MES, WMS, CRM, ...)
- Automatic forwarding of alarms & events to the shift book
- Examples for application:
- Automatic creation of a shift book entry based on an external trigger, such as a variable of a machine control (e.g. metal detector detects contamination)
- In case of a machine malfunction, an e-mail is automatically sent to the plant manager and the current shift supervisor
Plant Historian SB - Digital Shift Book
Application areas for shift books, operating data, laboratories and digital checklists
- Classic shift book with information on e.g. number of employees at work, absent, sick, etc.
- Documentation of shift events
- Shift handover log
- Shift instructions and tasks
- Audit logs
- Plant logbook: documentation of events at a machine/plant
- Service: maintenance and shutdown, repairs, inspections
- Shutdown recording
- Control charts
- Quality data: defective goods, rework, rejects
- Production key figures
- Inspection records
- Logging of batch changes, material usage
- Controls
Benefits
- Paperless, central, flexible and mobile data capture
- Increasing the information quality of the recorded dataReduction of the recording and research effort
- Reduction of error sources
- Automatic transfer of shop floor information relevant to the shift book (alarms & events, limit value changes, etc.)
- Support/guide of the employee through the entire workflow
- Intuitive operation (entry of text modules, spell check)
- Individual automated reporting
- Use of a multilingual, group-wide uniform data entry platform reduces IT costs
- Standardized interfaces to the shop floor and ERP world
- Facilitated cooperation between staff and shifts
Core Features
- Central dashboard with all events, tasks, shift handovers, whiteboard, instructions
- Standard forms for the recording of events, tasks, shift handovers, whiteboard, instructions
- Digital data recording - freely configurable forms, e.g. for quality data (QM) or maintenance
- Intuitive and flexible operation of views
- Filtering, grouping and sorting of entries
- Flexible filter saving in user or group-related layouts
- Notifications - concerning my open tasks or current whiteboard entries, for example
- Data export - e.g. for further processing of data in Excel (simple Excel reports) or Power BI
- Confirmation function for shift handover
- Automate processes / workflow engine, e.g. automated shift book entry in case of machine failure, plausibility check, escalation logic in case of value violation
- Full integration into the Plant Historian world: coupling with alarm management, process data archiving, iScan, ---
- Interfaces: LDAP, SQL, ERP, OPC (SPS/PLS), REST API, QR Codes, cameras, RFID
- Available extensions: digital checklists, shift planning, reporting module, full integration into the PCS7 world
Technologies
- Platform-independent, modern web application for all common browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, ...
- Progressive web app: web application for desktop and mobile clients
- Users can be transferred directly from Windows (AD coupling)
- Access to hardware and apps from mobile end devices
- Push notification, e.g. for new task or fault message
- Camera function for file upload to shift book
- Open, documented REST interface: data can be use for further processing with many third-party applications (e.g. MS PowerBI)
- Secure industrial application: HTTPS encryption, JSON Web Token Authentication (JWT) with refresh and access token
- Simple automated deployment: docker with scripted infrastructure, Kubernetes
- High scalability and simple extensibility due to microservice architecture
- Cloud capability (in progress) - even easier deployability & software updates, providers: Amazon AWS, MS Azure, Google Cloud, ...
Insights
Display of operational documents such as shift/handover logs, digital checklists or plant books on mobile devices
Error message recording, recording of unplanned downtimes and/or reasons for downtimes, etc.
Fast process automation using an integrated lowcode workflow engine, e.g. mapping of if-then scenarios
Trial access shift book
Request your free trial access for the shift book web application Plant Historian SB now without any obligation and convince yourself of the scope of services and functions:
Plant Historian SB – Shift Book
Digital and efficient recording and documentation of shift events:
- Improved overview and handling
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Reduced effort for data entry, research and reporting
- Increase in quality
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Statistical evaluations through classification of error sources and recording of
proposed solutions -
Use of a multilingual, company-wide uniform data acquisition platform saves IT costs
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Simple operation (entry of text modules, spell checking)
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