Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Metrics User Guide - Manual (Page 125)

Collecting Performance Data Chapter 3
6. Click OK.
7. Repeat steps 2-6 and add other machine states.
8. Under Machines States, use the Priority arrows to put the
states in the correct order.
An example of the machine state configuration is presented in
the figure below.
After you have configured your machine states for the FactoryTalk
Metrics application, you can map the relevant machine state to the
user-defined events that are used to derive that machine state in each
activity area.
The way the mapping is created depends on the types of event
triggers that you use for the mapping.
Monitored value data points can return a range of valid values.
Monitored value data points do not have on/off states, so each value
they return can map to a different machine state. You do not have to
Mapping Machine States to
User-defined Events
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