Creating & managing Connect downtime alerts

Accumine Cloud has the ability to send employees in your organization email alerts when an asset enters downtime or is down for a specified amount of time. To do this, you can modify each asset's data flow that creates downtime events to also send email alerts.

You can repeat the process below for as many downtime alerts per machine as you'd like to add.

Did you know?

Data flows are responsible for converting raw machine data into valuable insights. There are inputs (blue blocks which represent data sent by SensorBots), transforms (yellow blocks which represent manipulation of incoming data) and outputs (green blocks which represent saving the manipulated data in Accumine Cloud or sending it elsewhere)

 

To start, click on your username on the top navigation bar and select Data Flows:

 

Next, you'll see a dropdown selector with the list of your assets. Select an asset to load the data flows associated with the asset:

There is no universal name for the data flow we need to modify but it will likely be called one of these names:

• Machine Monitoring
• Part Model
• Part Count
• Utilization Model
• Utilization

If you are unable to find a data flow with one of the above names, check each of the asset's flows to find the flow that contains an output (green block) with an Output Name of "Downtime":

 

From the left sidebar, drag the following blocks onto an empty area on the data flow canvas and connect them as shown below:

Transforms: Timeout, Filter Duplicate Values, Filter

Output: Send Alert

 

Next, click on each of the output blocks labelled Accumine Database until you find the one that contains an Output Name of "Downtime" in the right sidebar. Examine the set of transforms that lead up to the output block. Do you see a transform labelled Timeout?

 

Yes - there is a Timeout transform

The flow you are looking at may look different than what's shown below but the modification needed is universal.

 

Connect the output of the transform preceding the Timeout transform (not the Timeout we just added) to the new Timeout (the one we just added). To perform the connection, click on the output square of the outgoing transform and drag your mouse to the input square of the incoming transform. It should look similar to this:

 

No - there is no Timeout transform

The flow you are looking at may look different than what's shown below but the modification needed is universal.

 

If there is no Timeout transform, find the output block that contains an Output Name of "In-Cycle". Connect the output of the transform preceding the In-Cycle output block to the Timeout you recently added. To perform the connection, click on the output square of the outgoing transform and drag your mouse to the input square of the incoming transform. It should look similar to this:

 

Configuring your alert

By clicking on each of the blocks you added, you'll now configure each block:

Timeout is where you set your alert threshold. For example, 300,000 milliseconds means that we will receive an alert 5 after the asset has entered downtime.

Filter Duplicate Values does not require any parameters, its job is to prevent redundant alerts.

Filter instructs the data flow to only consider data that indicates the asset is in downtime. You can paste the following text into the text box:

function(obj) { return obj.value === true; }

Send Alert lets you set the email subject line and recipients. Clicking "Set Email/SMS" will reveal a pop-up window where you can add your recipients. 

 

To add a new recipient, simply start typing and hit enter on your keyboard. Existing recipients from any saved data flows that contain the Send Alert output will show up as existing entries in the dropdown menu.

 

Click the blue Save button above the data flow canvas to save your changes. This will result in a reset of the asset's status and you and your team will begin receiving email alerts for this asset.