How to disable and enable Lines and Areas

ArchFX Cloud makes it possible to disable any Line and any Area that only contains Machines. Please contact Arch Support if you want to enable/disable a Line or Area and we will be happy to assist you.

Contents of this article

• What does disabling a Line or Area do?
• Why would I disable a Line or Area?
• Who can enable or disable a Line/Area?
• How does Arch track the enabled/disabled status of Lines and Areas? 
• How do I disable or enable a Line/Area?
• Why can't I disable an SMT Area?

What does disabling a Line or Area do?

Disabling a Line or Area removes it from the count of tracked Lines or Areas and causes any activity on the Line or Area not to be counted in statistics for Throughput, Utilization, etc.

Why would I disable a Line or Area?

Companies usually disable a Line or Area when the it is being taking out of service for an extended period of time (typically at least a week) for planned maintenance or reconfiguration and they don't want the it to be counted in their Utilization statistics.

Who can enable or disable a Line/Area?

Only ArchFX Cloud Administrator users can enable or disable Lines and Areas. Other users can contact Arch Support to request that a Line or Area be enabled or disabled.

How does Arch track the enabled/disabled status of Lines and Areas? 

Lines and Areas are enabled and disabled by time.  These events overlay the factory model and influence how the Global KPIs Solution interprets the data. In the factory model, you may have defined a Line called "1A" in Juarez. But if you use ArchFX Cloud to create a "disable" event for Line 1A at a particular time, at that time, Line 1A will be disabled, the Global KPIs Solution will decrement the number of "LU Lines" for Juarez by 1, and Line 1A will no longer have its activity tracked or included in performance statistics.  

How do I disable or enable a Line/Area?

1. Navigate to Factory Map > click into the desired Line or Area.
2. Click to 'Properties' then 'Edit' the 'Enabled' property.
3. Edit the Message field to indicate why you are disabling the Line so others will know, e.g. "Disabled for planned maintenance."
4. From the Time pulldown menu, choose the Time at which you want the "Disable Event" to occur.
   • If you want the  event to occur now, leave the End time as blank.
   • You can also choose "Enter an exact timestamp manually" to choose the time at which the event will take place. Make sure you enter the timestamp in the time zone that is shown on the page. 
5. Click the Add button to add a "Disable Event" and cause the line to become disabled.

Why can't I disable an SMT Area?

You can disable containers that only contain Machines.

Mechanicals Areas contain Machines, not Lines, and can be disabled.

SMT Areas contain Lines, not Machines, so they can't be disabled. For SMT Organizations, disable Lines, not Areas. If you want to disable an entire Area in an SMT Organization, disable all the Lines in that Area.