Machine Monitoring

Learn the basics of Machine monitoring in Tulip before learning how to set up your first machine.

In this article, you will learn about:

• The capabilities of the machine monitoring feature in Tulip
• How to track machine data without setting up an app

The Machines page, within the Shop Floor tab, lets you manage your machine data in Tulip.

There are two ways to monitor machine data in Tulip:

1. Without Apps: By simply setting up an OPC UA Connector and connecting your OPC UA fields to atrributes in Tulip, you can begin tracking and analyzing data.
2. Within Apps: If you have to combine human-centric data (audits, machine inspections, maintenance history) with machine data in real-time, you will need to set up an app that can be run in the Tulip Player to combine the human data with machine data.

Tulip can help you monitor one machine or hundreds of machines. You can track data across multiple machines under one category.

Set up machine monitoring

Here are the 7 steps needed to setup machine monitoring in Tulip:

1. Set up an OPC UA Connector on the "Machine Data Sources"
2. Create a Machine Type to organize your machines
3. Create an Attribute to organize data from multiple machines
4. Connect your machines to Tulip and map their data on the "Machine Library" page
5. Set up Machine Triggers to map Attributes to Machine States
6. Create an Analytic for your machine data (optional)
7. Update machine history from an app (optional)

Read more about how to set up your first machine here.

Machines page

See a list of all machines that are connected to Tulip.

Use the Grid View to get a visual overview of all current machines. In the example below, 4 out of 5 machines are offline.

Use the Progress Bar view to see the history of every machine over the past 3 hours.

Select a machine to view its details, activity, and configuration.

Machine types

Organize your machines by type. A Machine Type is a defined set of criterea to categorize similar machines.

When you assign a machine type to a new machine, it assigns the configured states, downtime reasons, attributes and triggers.

Learn how to set up machine types here.

Machine attributes

Define and manage all Attributes that can be used to organize machine data. Machine attributes are necessary to capture data coming from machines.

Activity fields

The activity fields determine the data in a machine's activity table.

Downtime reasons

Downtime reasons provide context for downtime events. Downtime reasons come default, but you can also create your own.

States

States are used in analytics, such as OEE calcuations. These can also be useful to track what state your machines are actively in throughout the day.

Create analytics with machine data

Read about how to create analyses using machine data here.

Use machine data in apps

Read about how to use machine data within your frontline operations apps here.

Further reading

• How To Build Your First OPC UA Connector

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