User interface for reporting event-based production information in product
manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system,
method, computer-readable medium, and display device for processing data
stored in a database. The data includes automatically collected
event-based production information records in a manufacturing system
wherein each record represents an event and includes a timestamp, an
event code, and a measure of cost or production loss associated with the
event. The embodiments are operable in an intelligent manufacturing
system including a process for converting raw materials to a product, a
process control system including one or more sensors capable of
generating an alarm in response to an event that results in one of waste,
machine delay, or decrease product quality, a data logger associated with
the process control system for obtaining event parameters associated with
the event, a database on a server for recording event parameters obtained
by the data logger, and a reporting system cooperatively associated with
the database for reporting productivity parameters regarding the process
derived at least in part from the event parameters.