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Shop floor data that goes straight into Odyssey.

Odyssey Apps for Ignition put a touch terminal at every station. Operators job on, post production and scrap, and record downtime, and each entry reaches Odyssey as it happens, with no paper and no double entry. Watch the two-minute demo ↓

Odyssey Apps for Ignition

Four screens, working on day one

Configure your stations and the apps are ready to use. Everything an operator posts goes to Odyssey, and the floor board reads it back.

Shop floor terminal

Operators sign in with their clock number and pick from the shop orders scheduled to their line, with progress and due dates. They post good parts every hour and log scrap with the most common reasons listed first. At job off, the next scheduled order is already selected.

Shop floor terminal: an operator signed in by clock number, with the shop orders scheduled to the line

Downtime without paperwork

With the machine's run signal connected to Ignition, the terminal sees it stop on its own. When it restarts, the operator picks a reason, and the downtime posts to Odyssey with the exact minutes. Stations without a signal log downtime by hand.

Terminal asking why the machine stopped, with downtime reason buttons

Floor board

Every station on one screen: who is running it, progress on the order, pace against standard, and today's running and down time. It flags a station whose hourly punch is overdue, and a TV mode puts it on a wall screen that reads from across the floor.

Floor board: totals for the day and a card for every station with its operator, order progress and running time

Open-job cleanup

Jobs that were never closed, in one place and filtered by age. Before you close one, it shows who opened it, at which station, and the labor hours the close will book.

Open-job cleanup: jobs left open, with a selected job ready to close
Demo

Watch one shift on the terminal

A walkthrough in just over two minutes: an operator's shift on the terminal, the supervisor's floor board, and open-job cleanup.

The package

One package, one price

  • The Odyssey Integration Toolkit. Ignition library functions for the Odyssey transactions a shop floor uses most: job on and off, production and scrap punches, and downtime. They are built to be extended to whatever else your plant needs from Odyssey.
  • Odyssey Apps for Ignition. The Perspective project with the terminal, floor board and open-job cleanup, set up for your stations through configuration.
  • Four hours with the engineers who built it. They walk your team through how the toolkit works and how to extend it for what you need next.
  • $10,000, one time. Ignition licenses are separate, and work beyond the package is quoted on its own.

Odyssey and Shop Floor Manager are products of B&L Information Systems.

Why Ignition

Why plants run the shop floor on Ignition

  • No per-seat licensing. Ignition is licensed by the server with unlimited clients, so a terminal at another station adds no license cost.
  • Yours to extend. The toolkit and screens are standard Ignition that your own team can read and change, and Inductive University, Inductive Automation's free online training, teaches how.
  • More than terminals. The same gateway can run HMI screens, the historian, quality checks and lab data, all connected to Odyssey.
Experience

Built by engineers who know Odyssey

Engineers on our team used Odyssey inside foundries before they built integrations for it. Since then we have connected Ignition to Odyssey at foundries running it in production, most of which we can't name. One we can is Ferroloy, an iron foundry in Wichita, Kansas, where molding machines sync with Odyssey and spectrometer data from the QA lab sits in the same Ignition system.

Read the Ferroloy case study →

Questions

Common questions

Can this replace Shop Floor Manager?+

For job on and off, production and scrap punches, and downtime, yes. You can switch over one station at a time, and the toolkit can be extended to cover more of what your stations do today.

We use Odyssey but don't run every job from a shop order. Will it work?+

Yes. Operators can search any active product and job on to it, even one their line has never run.

Do we need Ignition already?+

The apps run on Ignition with the Perspective module. If you don't have Ignition yet, we size the license with you, and as an Inductive Automation Premier Integrator we can supply it.

Can we change the screens?+

Yes. You receive the Perspective project and the toolkit's scripts, and the four included hours cover how both work and how to extend them.

What does it cost?+

$10,000, one time, including four hours with the engineers who built it. Ignition licenses and any custom work are quoted separately.

Let's talk

Running Odyssey? Let's look at your shop floor.

Call us and we'll connect you with the right engineer. If we're not the right fit for the work, we'll tell you.

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