Technical Briefs
Reference material on how ProAlert measures the plant floor. These are methodology documents, not product sheets... written for the people who must account for the numbers in a review meeting.
Measurement and Metrics
How a metric is calculated determines whether anyone acts on it. The brief below documents exactly where each input comes from, what starts and stops each clock, and which time window the math runs against. The sandbox lets you verify that on a simulated shift.
How ProAlert Measures OEE Availability
Where the Availability inputs come from, how the downtime clock starts and stops, which time window the calculation runs against, and how an extended stoppage with an early shift release is accounted for. Includes a worked example and a glossary.
OEE Sandbox: Build a Shift and Watch It Score
A simulated shift you can modify. Move runs and downtime calls, add scrap, extend the schedule, and observe Availability, Performance, Quality and OEE respond together. Press Show me for a guided walkthrough that drives it for you.
Questions Buyers Ask
Plain answers to the questions plant and operations leaders ask when they evaluate plant-floor software, including where ProAlert fits and where it does not.
OEE, Maintenance and Shop-Floor Response in One System
What changes when OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), the CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) and line-stop response share one database, plus five questions to ask any vendor.
Maintenance and Plant-Floor Software That Runs Inside Your Plant
What keeps running when the internet connection drops, what an on-premises installation asks of your IT team, and who installs and supports it.
From Machine Stop to Closed Work Order, With Nothing Re-Keyed
How a downtime event becomes a work order with its context attached, how the cause is classified, and how the plant checks whether the fix held.
What a Modern Architecture Gives a Manufacturing Plant
The design choices behind ProAlert, translated into plant terms: speed, one database, integration without middleware, security and safe upgrades.
Video of Every Machine Stoppage, Captured Without Anyone Pressing Record
How a downtime call triggers a clip of the lead-up and the aftermath, linked to the call and shown on the work order, from any standard RTSP camera.
Kaizen That Does Not Stop When the Action Is Closed
The Kaizen and A-FMDS loop: from an issue to an improvement, then follow-through against the measure it was meant to move, until the team can see whether it held.
Start Small. Prove It. Scale It.
How ProAlert is evaluated: a pilot on representative work centers, measurable success criteria agreed up front, and direct access to the people who build the product.
Where ProAlert Fits in Manufacturing Operations Management
What MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) covers, how it differs from an MES or a CMMS, and which of those functions ProAlert runs today and which it does not.
Product User Guides
Day-to-day reference documentation for teams already running ProAlert.
A-FMDS System Overview
What the Automated Floor Management Development System is, why FMDS (Floor Management Development System) works better when automated, and how the core loop of Target, Gap, Problem and Action fits together.
A-FMDS User Guide
Day-to-day use of the Daily Management module: the Daily Board, gap promotion, working with Problems and Actions, the escalation screen, and the recommended daily routine by role.
CMMS Executive Overview
The maintenance management package and how it is woven into the ProAlert platform, from the Maintenance Department's point of view, in contrast to a standalone CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System).
Have a question these do not answer?
If your team needs a specific calculation, workflow, or compliance behavior documented before you can move forward, tell us what it is. We will write it up.
