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To improve OnRamp usability on the shop floor, OnRamp has developed keystrips.
The keystrip is a small keyboard that has 16 easy to press buttons, which an operator can press while wearing protective gloves. These keystrips are plugged in, via USB, to an OnRamp Shop Monitor and are programmed by you with 2 specific actions for 12 of the keys.
The Keystrip has 16 buttons, where the 8 yellow buttons and 4 blue buttons are programmable:
Note: Buttons 18 – 32 are accessed by holding down Shift and pressing buttons 2 – 16.
On Shop Monitor Keystrip Manager > Keystrip Configuration frame, you can configure the keys to perform certain functions. Keys with a Key Type of:
To use the keystrip, you have to:
Once this setup is complete, you can use the keystrip by pressing the buttons to perform the configured function, like opening a screen in OnRamp or alerting a supervisor.
Use Shop Monitor Keystrip Configuration [R1054] to review how each of your keystrips are configured.
Use the Shop Monitor Keystrip Manager [S1058] screen to add, edit, copy, or delete machine monitor keystrip configurations.
To add keystrip configurations:
Based on the selected Type, Keystrip or Keyboard, the Keystrip Configuration frame will populate with the default available number of programmable keys.
To program keys:
Result
You have added a keystrip configuration.
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