CAM-240
The line has stopped with a pallet jammed inside
Mid-morning on the assembly floor. The line has stopped. Inside the machine a wooden pallet sits jammed at an angle, with an aluminium casting on top about to slide off. The red beacon is lit above the frame. Two operators stand there without touching anything: one has his hands on his head, the other holds on to the machine column with his arm up. On the roller conveyor the parts have not moved for minutes. IRIS sees that nothing is advancing and starts timing.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- pallet jammed inside the machine
- red beacon lit above the frame
- operator standing still in front of the machine
- operator in a hard hat, standing at the machine
- machine screen and pushbutton panel
- parts stationary on the conveyor
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 6 min 10 sTime stopped
- 11Parts stationary on the run
- 3People in shot
- 4Stops counted this shift
- 10:26Time of the stop
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client's measurement.
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
parts stop moving down the line for more than a minute
Then
- alert the shift supervisor with the camera, the time and the exact minute
- save the video of the minute before and the minute after the stop
- time the stop until the parts start moving again
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when the line stops moving parts for more than a minute, and keep me the video from just before.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
The production manager hears about the stop late and badly: at the end of the shift, on a handwritten sheet, with whatever cause somebody remembers. With the camera he has the exact time the line went down, the minute it started again and the video of the seconds before. In that footage you can see the crooked pallet going into the machine. Maintenance stops arguing about what happened and starts fixing it.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know why the line stopped?
Not on its own. IRIS sees that the parts have stopped moving and saves the video of the seconds before. In that footage you can see the pallet going in crooked. A person writes the cause, with the exact time and the images in front of them, and it takes a minute instead of half an hour. IRIS does not stop the line and does not send anybody anywhere: it alerts, and the plant decides what happens next.
Does it also work for the short stops nobody writes down?
Yes. The plant writes the threshold: a minute, thirty seconds or ten. IRIS times every stop from the first second and adds them up across the shift. Two-minute stops never make the report, and they are the ones that eat the most time over a month. Seeing them added up, each with its time, changes the conversation at the morning meeting.
Does it replace the system that already logs the stops?
No. The production system knows the line went down and at what time. What it does not have is what happened just before, and that only exists in the picture. IRIS works alongside it and adds that part: the video and the exact minute. Together, the two turn a stop code into a concrete cause somebody can fix.
Other cameras
- CAM-241 · The line is running, but a gap opens every few seconds
- CAM-242 · A mountain of parts has built up in front of one machine
- CAM-243 · The cell is ready and the bin is empty
- CAM-244 · A copper coil mounted on a steel line
- CAM-245 · A unit moves down the line with no cover on
- CAM-246 · The box takes the bypass and skips inspection
The real interface, step by step
Everything comes in. Only what matters gets through.
This sums up what IRIS does with one alert, from the moment it appears until it is closed. The real screen holds far more; this is the main thread.
- Cameras on the map
- You draw an area
- What passed shows up
Next step
How long does it take to find a hand played two hours ago?
12 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 3 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
What does a shopping centre see beyond the visitor count?
12 cases: 4 raise an alert when something happens and 8 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
Whoever is on duty already has a job.Watching forty screens does not fit into the shift.
No shift has time to spare. IRIS watches all forty at once and brings only what needs to be seen, with its camera and its time. What happens next is that person’s call.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.