Machine by machine, station by station
Line installation software for scopes measured in stations, not in square metres.
A production line is a chain of stations, conveyors, robots and controls that only produces value when every link is proven. Deskely tracks installation, hook-up, functional testing and SAT per station, so the line is accepted as a line rather than as a pile of machines.
- Unit
- Station and cell
- Sequence
- Install, hook-up, function, SAT
- Constraint
- Line only runs whole
- Output
- SAT and rate qualification
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The problem
Ninety per cent of a line produces exactly nothing.
Every station has to be installed, hooked up, subjected to I/O checkout and functionally tested before the line can run a cycle-time proving run end to end. One unfinished cell — a conveyor not aligned, a robot cell not validated — holds the whole chain.
When status lives in a supervisor's head and a shared spreadsheet, the constraint is discovered during the first dry run rather than three weeks earlier.
Deskely reports readiness per station against the same record set, so the critical cell is visible while there is still time to resource it.
Setting up the register
Stations, robots, conveyors and controls are tagged assets, not line items.
The line is modelled as stations and cells, each holding its mechanical assemblies, drives, robots, safety devices, sensors and control panels.
Layouts, equipment lists and I/O schedules are parsed into the register, so the I/O checkout list and the installation list are the same list.
Progress rolls up from device to station to line without anyone rebuilding a summary.
Execution
Hook-up, I/O checkout and dry run each leave a signed record behind.
Technicians work on the floor with a tablet: mechanical installation, alignment, utility hook-up, I/O point checks, safety circuit validation and dry-run results captured where the work happens.
Photos and values are mandatory where they matter, which stops a station being marked complete on optimism.
Punch raised during the dry run is categorised immediately as blocking or non-blocking for SAT.
Site acceptance
SAT is signed against a defined set, not negotiated in a room.
The site acceptance certificate lists exactly which records permitted it — I/O checkout, safety circuit validation, robot cell validation and the cycle-time proving run result — and which punch items were carried, with owners and dates against every one.
That is what turns final payment and rate qualification into a documented event rather than a dispute between the supplier and the plant.
Carried items stay live in the same register through ramp-up until they are closed.
Cycle time and changeover
SAT proves the line can run once. Rate qualification proves it can run at rate, on every changeover.
Passing a single dry-run cycle is a very different claim from holding target cycle time across a shift, and a different claim again from surviving a product changeover without the cycle time collapsing. Buyers and plant managers who have been burned before know to ask for all three separately, and they ask for the changeover trial results by product variant, not as an average.
Deskely records the cycle-time proving run as its own test against the line, with the measured cycle time, the target, and the variant under test held on the record. Where the line runs multiple SKUs or vehicle variants, each changeover trial is its own record against the station and tooling involved, so a supplier cannot claim rate qualification on the strength of the one variant that ran cleanest.
That distinction is what protects the plant during final payment negotiation with the integrator: the site acceptance certificate proves the line was built and functions; the rate qualification record proves it will actually hit the number the business case was written against.
What the ramp-to-rate review reads
The records that prove a line runs at its designed rate, not just that it runs.
Installing a production line into an existing building is judged on throughput and changeover performance against the business case, not on whether equipment powers up. The dossier ties rate verification and OEE ramp data to each station so a stalled ramp-up can be traced to the station causing it.
Station-by-station FAT protocol and acceptance record
Each machine met its rate and quality specification before leaving the vendor's works
At the vendor's works, before shipment to site
Line rate verification test record
The installed line achieves its designed units-per-hour rate under production conditions
During line commissioning, before the ramp-up phase
OEE ramp verification record
Availability, performance and quality track the ramp-up curve the business case assumed
Continuously through the ramp-up period after line start-up
Safety circuit and light-curtain validation record
Guarding interlocks and light curtains stop the line within the required response time
Before first powered operation of the line
Changeover and format-part validation record
The line reaches target rate within the changeover time budget for each product variant run on it
During commissioning, for each format the line is designed to run
Line acceptance and handover-to-production record
The line has met its rate, quality and safety criteria and is released to normal production ownership
At handover from project to production
How it runs
From first anchor bolt to a qualified rate.
Line installation is repetitive and time-boxed, which is exactly the shape of scope that benefits from templated records.
- 01
Model the line
Stations, cells, conveyors, robots and control panels tagged as assets in one register.
- 02
Template per equipment type
One record set for each robot, drive, station and panel type, instantiated across the line.
- 03
Capture installation and hook-up
Mechanical install, alignment and utility connection signed on tablet at the station.
- 04
Run I/O checkout
Point-by-point I/O verification against the schedule, with results held on the device tag.
- 05
Dry run and function test
Functional and safety testing recorded per station, punch raised and categorised on the spot.
- 06
Issue SAT
Site acceptance per station and per line from signed records, with carried punch owned and visible.
FAQ
Questions about Production line installation scopes.
Keep reading
Manufacturing commissioning
The full sector view: asset registers, FAT and SAT evidence, punch lists and line acceptance.
Read moreITR records
Installation and test records defined once per equipment type and instantiated across every asset.
Read morePunch lists
Defects raised at the machine with photos, categorised by whether they block acceptance.
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