Maintenance / equipment / meter: how to auto record meter readings based on Current qty completed on an Op / MES?

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I vaguely remember that this function works, but forgot how: Resource linked to Equipment. UOM Class = Other, UOM = EA. MES / Start Activity, End Activity, report qty 10,000. How to auto capture the meter reading vs. manual entry?

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I believe this is done with a maintenance job

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@TimRedhed Curious - I didn’t know this was possible to do automatically - I know that you have a PM that you can record meter reading against, but otherwise I thought we’d have to do a BPM or something on Job.QtyCompleted, or Labordtl.LaborHrs + Resource in order to tally up hours and create a PM/Work Order programatically.

Let’s see if anyone posts the solution!

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Also interested in the PM Job. I do know this exists, so there should be a way to call it in a BPM.

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Exactly - and the trick is how to accumulate hours per machine, over N number of jobs. I’d think this would be a background process that we could schedule or something, like the PM generator or something.

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I think MATTEC/Advanced MES can do this too. It’s also smart enough to count cycles and not parts, which is important here where a single cycle can produce multiples or co-parts (plastic injection molding).

:popcorn:

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If you set the Labor Interface Option to “Quantity” it will apply to the meter automatically from labor reporting.

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Alternatively if you have any way to read meters from machines hitting the MeterRead endpoint is really really simple to update the value.

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I saw a really cool demo of a product called Harmoni that links machines with epicor. I bet it could do all the automation.

@gingerhelp

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I googled that with and without “automation software” and couldn’t find anything industrial do you have a link?

Only thing close I found but their site seems all but defunct?
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That was it!!! Thanks Joshua!

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Hi @jgiese.wci - that is the correct site for us. Did you have any troubles getting it to pull up for you? We are definitely alive and kicking over here at Harmoni :slight_smile:

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I went back to it and now it’s loading fine. The first time I went to it and browsed none of the images loaded and only have the text that is there now loaded.
¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Thats the site Josh.

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That’s pretty fancy! Can anyone say how this differs from, say, MATTEC/Advanced MES? I see that there is a physical computer attached to the machine. Is that the biggest difference? Does anyone currently use Harmoni with Epicor?