Hello! We are preparing for our Go-Live. It will finally happen at the end of December.
On our shop floor, we have multiple Intel NUC mini PCs. On these devices, we run Kinetic MES (Data Collection) in Google Chrome.
The issue is that we get poor performance. I have attached a video where you can notice the time it takes …
to log in after entering the employee number;
to load the Start Production Activity interface;
to load the End Labor Activity interface.
I have also attached a video performing the same operations on a desktop PC on the shop floor. It uses the same network as the NUCs, the same OS, and the same browser version. The desktop PC runs faster by a lot.
You can test this by putting a higher performance laptop at the exact spot as your NUC using the WIFI. If the laptop performs admirably, then it’s the NUC hardware; if not; it maybe a wifi/network issue. We will be using Microsoft Slates, they currently appear to be running well over wifi. We are four months out of go-live.
I literally had this conversation with our operations consultant awhile back and they didn’t have a firm answer for me; so, we just did a bunch of experimenting and determined we needed at least an i5 level processor with plenty of ram. I will up vote you - it’s needed. Thanks.
