Overall

Horizontal bar charts are ideal for showing discrete values, such as if systems are on or off, or what mode your machines are in.

Showing these values as position rarely makes sense to the reader, so colour is usually the easiest way to help people understand what they are seeing.

Example

This example shows a number of machines, and the percentage of the reporting time that they were in each state.

This is very useful for providing utilisation and outage metrics, so you can understand where equipment is unavailable or being under-used. However, if you’re interested in knowing exactly when these events occurred, the same data sorted differently to create a report over time.

You can find this example on our paint line demo site.

Tips and Tricks

  • The metrics can be recorded to databases, historians and other systems using ARDIs Modular Output System, allowing you to take report calculations and store them as official KPIs.

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Bar visualisations
Discrete visualisations
Horizontal visualisations
Report visualisations
Summary visualisations