What Are System Messages?

System Messages are short text messages that can be created and displayed at the top of the ei3 apps web pages for all users of Remote Service and / or the Portal during a specific window of time. They can be used by administrators to notify users of planned downtime & maintenances, new feature launches, […]

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What is the Data Value Accumulator Function?

This article is split into the following sections: Lifetime Material Counter Accumulator for any data point Accumulator Conditions When selected in the set-up of a data point, the Accumulator function will cause the value of the data point to become an accumulating sum of the difference in values (“delta-value”) read from the device. The system […]

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How to remotely update your Amphion’s network configuration

This feature is available to Admin users only.This procedure works for eligible Amphions of networks and machines in ei3. In Remote Service, navigate to Admin and then either the Networks page or the Machines page. Using the Search bar, find the network or machine you’re looking to configure, and then select the Configuration icon  for […]

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Setting Manual Quality For A Machine

How to set or change the Quality component of OEE calculations for a machine that is not able to determine the quality of the material it is producing With the correct data points set up in ei3, a machine can be set up such that ei3 will automatically calculate its OEE quality metrics. For ei3 […]

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Amphion Edge Device Data Collection – Overview

The Amphion Edge device is robust and able to handle various types of data collection. This article lists each step required to successfully set up and start collecting data from your devices. ei3’s data collection services are optimized for an ever-growing list of specific control systems. While the current data collection services available are only […]

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How to Set up and Start Data Collection with Rockwell, XML, and JSON

This article explains how to set up and run XML, JSON, Rockwell and eWOD-based Amphion Edge Device data collection in detail. For a general overview of data collection, see this article. For OPC-UA-based data collection, see this article instead. Adding Data Points Starting Data Collection Adding Data Points To set up data through these protocols, […]

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Trigger Data Collection

Trigger-based data collection allows users to set up a set of data points to be collected when a specific trigger event occurs on the machine, as detected by a change in the value of any one data point. This means a trigger-based collection job might collect data several times in a minute, or only a […]

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Machine Product Activations

Product Activation – Overview Accessing Product Activations Product Activation Symbols How To Set Up Products Auto-Renew Pre-Activating Products Product Activation – Overview Product activations allow specific machines access to certain products. With no product active, a machine cannot collect data, track downtime, or have access to any other features available with data collection. Activating products […]

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Required Format for Importing Data Points Using Excel

When importing data points to a machine using Excel, it’s important that all the data point information is properly formatted. Any errors will result in a failed import attempt. When you export an existing data point list into an Excel file, the data points will be properly formatted for Excel, and can easily be copied […]

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New Customer Creation

The guide below provides a step-by-step outline on adding a new company, its divisions, as well as machines and their devices. Note that some or all of these capabilities may not be available to some users. If you need assistance with any customer or machine creation, contact us for assistance. There are 6 menu items that […]

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