Tip of the Day 132: The “Save Notes” tool for the eDART™
Release 8.8 of the eDART software includes a new software tool on all releases: “Save Notes”. This tool does the same thing as the note adder in the Summary Graph. You can add it to all molds in the system through the usual method: Open Architect, select the system tab, select the Molds folder, select the Applications tab and drag it into the workspace. Here it is graphically.
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Once running the Save Notes tool appears like this:
Clicking in the white area (or on “New Note”) allows you to begin typing a note.
Once typed, click “Save Note” and it is added to the last finished shot in the summary data.
The simple instructions go like this:
- Clear the previous note by clicking “New Note”. This places the cursor in the white area.
- Type your note.
- Click “Save Note”
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Additional Pointers and Ideas
- You could you set up security for saving notes to put the operators name into the change log.
- Or you could just request that they put their initials into the note.
- If you intend to use the tool across the plant you could set up a view with the notes tool in a convenient location. Here is the view used by the “Conx” (machine-only) eDART showing the Save Notes tool circled in yellow:
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- When using the Analyzer you can export all notes for a given period by clicking “Export” and adding the type “Text” and the location “Summary Note” as shown here:
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Once opened in Excel sort on the “Note” column and all of the actual notes will rise to the top.