Tap the Alert, and the Readings Around It Open Up
An alert on its own tells you a chamber went warm. The half hour before it tells you why, and whether it has been doing the same thing quietly for a fortnight.
The register that proves nothing
A supervisor is meant to write the temperature twice a shift. On a bad week he writes four days in one sitting, from memory. The sheet looks complete and it proves nothing, least of all to a customer who has refused a load. Readings taken by the device do not have that problem.
Ways of reading the history
By hour, shift, day or month
The same readings at the grain you want. A shift supervisor looks at last night. A plant head looks at March against February.
Two things side by side
Two machines on the same chart, or the same machine two months apart. That comparison is where a slow drift usually shows itself.
Condition against a consignment
The history for a batch, a load or a date, which is what a customer or an insurance assessor asks for when something has gone wrong.
Raw readings out
Any period downloads as a file, or goes over an API into your own tools. Quality heads and consultants ask for this eventually.
What is kept, and for how long
Retention is agreed before the first device is fitted, because storing every reading at every interval forever is a cost with no owner.
- How often each point is read, decided per device
- How long readings are kept at full detail
- What is held longer as an hourly or daily summary
- Exports taken once a quarter for whoever analyses them
Frequently asked questions
Is the history kept forever?
No. Full-detail readings are kept for the period you agree, and older data is usually held as summaries. Anyone promising unlimited retention is either charging for it somewhere or planning to delete it without telling you.
Can we bring in readings we already have?
Exports from an older logger or a spreadsheet load as history with their timestamps. Handwritten registers are a judgement call. Typing three years of a logbook rarely pays for itself, and we will say so.
Who does the analysis?
Whoever does it today: your quality head, a consultant, or an engineer with a spreadsheet. The readings go out raw so they are not stuck behind our charts. The dashboard is for the shift, not for the study.
Tell us what you need.
Send a short brief and one of our engineers will come back to you — usually the same day.
- No obligation
- We reply the same working day
- Your details stay private