About My Machines

As an Operator, you can use the My Machines application to select machines from the list of machines accessible to you across a plant model. The selected machines are set as your user preferences in the Plant Applications Web Client. The other applications in the Plant Applications Web Client, such as Downtime and Reports, display their application-specific data for only those machines that were set as your user preferences.
Note:
Two user preferences are stored for a user. You can switch back to previous user preference using the Restore Previous Profile option.
My Machines provides two types of views: Exclusive and Inclusive. When you access the application, you can see these two views in respective tabs.
  • Exclusive: Allows you to select machines from the list of machines accessible to you across a plant model.
  • Inclusive: Allows you to create your own profile and add machines to it.

When you load the My Machines application for the first time or if no machines are displayed, the machines for which you have access to appear in the Selected Machines section.

Note:
If no machines are authorized to you, an error message is displayed. Contact your System Administrator.
You can now add the preferred machine or remove the machines that you no longer require in the My Machines application. To enable this capability, in the Plant Applications Administrator, the system administrator must ensure the ByPassSecurityCheck site parameter value is set to True to provide access to the machine(s). The following steps outline how to enable this option:
  1. In the Plant Applications Administrator, navigate to Global Configuration and select Administer Site Parameters.

    The Site Parameters window appears.

  2. In the Services section, click the overflow icon to edit the ByPassSecurityCheck parameter value.

    The Edit Parameter window appears.

  3. In the Value drop-down list, select:
    • True: Enables the site parameter. In the My Machines application, all available departments/lines/machines in the plant model will appear. You will have access to add your preferred machine or remove it as required.
    • False: Disables the site parameter. In the My Machines application, you will be allowed to select departments/lines/machines to add or remove for which you have access to in your user profile.
    Note:
    By default, the site parameter value is set to False.
Note:
The machine(s) selected in the My Machines application will appear in the Unit Operations and Work Queue applications.