Every stop has a reason. Now it has a record.
Stops are detected automatically, to the second. Operators tag the reason at the machine in two taps or one scan, and interlocking can make it mandatory. The Pareto, the trends and the accountability build themselves.
You cannot fix downtime you never recorded.
Shift-end fiction
Downtime written from memory at shift end is fiction with a signature. Auto-detection makes the timeline true before anyone touches it.
“Machine problem” is not a reason
Free text produces unanalysable mush. Structured reason trees (management, operational, quality, maintenance) produce Paretos.
Repeat stops look normal
The same six-minute stop, four times a shift, forever. Recurrence analysis surfaces the losses everyone stopped seeing.
Be the operator for one shift.
Fourteen stops were detected on VMC-07 this shift. Give each one a reason and watch the Pareto your morning meeting would use.
Tap a reason for each stop on the HMI. This is the whole job for an operator: the stop, its time and its duration are already recorded by the machine.
Four ways to log a stop reason. Mix them across the plant.
Different floors, different habits, one rule: capture must be effortless at the machine.
Touchscreen at the machine
3.5, 5, 7 and 10 inch panels. Big targets, glove-friendly, two taps to a reason.
Scan a printed reason
Scan the reason code on a laminated sheet with the MachineWise device, with interlocking available.
Any browser, any phone
Log reasons from the MachineWise web page on a supervisor desk, a shared tablet or the operator's phone.
16×2 LCD and keypad
The lowest-cost option, rugged enough for the dustiest corner of the floor.
The machine waits until the reason is punched.
Voluntary logging always leaks. With interlocking, after a qualifying stop the MachineWise device holds cycle-start until a reason is given. Coverage stops being a discipline problem.
Scan to release
Stop detected, machine held through the device's interlock output, reason scanned or keyed, cycle-start released. Seconds, not minutes.
Enforce where it earns it
Choose which stops need a reason by duration, machine or shift. Grace for micro-stops, supervisor override with attribution. Safety circuits are never in the loop.
Paretos you can defend
Every qualifying stop carries a reason, timestamped at the machine by the logged-in operator. Ready for a customer audit.
The same scan runs your whole floor.
Start a route card
The batch goes live and progress counts from actual parts.
Start a setup
Setup time is captured separately from breakdowns, feeding changeover analytics.
Operator to machine
Badge scan for attribution in OEE, quality and downtime, with no passwords.
Punch a stop reason
Timestamped against the exact stop, instantly.
Where this connects to the rest of the platform.
Straight answers.
What is downtime tracking software?
How are downtime reasons captured?
What is machine interlocking for downtime capture?
Do operators have to type anything?
How are micro-stops handled?
What does the downtime data feed?
Find out where your machine hours really go.
Two machines, thirty days, every stop with a reason. Your data stays on-premises throughout.