Guides

Create your plant, add machines and see them on the board in about ten minutes.

Let operators log why a machine stopped by scanning a sticker with their phone.

Read the machine tiles, show one area at a time, and put the board on a screen on the shop floor.

Tell What Started when each machine is meant to run, so OEE measures against real working hours.

Set the stop reasons operators tap on the QR sticker, which of them are planned, and what happens when a machine stops cycling.

Group machines into lines or departments, and add or update many machines at once from a spreadsheet.

What makes What Started send an alert email, who gets it, when the alert closes, and how to change or turn off each kind.

Connect a PLC, gateway or script so What Started knows a machine is alive, running and counting parts.

Install a small program on the PC next to a machine and pair it with a code. No programming, password or API key.

Copy-and-paste examples for sending pings from a computer, a Raspberry Pi or a Node-RED flow next to the machine.

Send numbers like temperature or load with each ping, watch them live, pin them to the board and get an email when one leaves its normal range.

Read machines, events, metrics, OEE and alerts from your own systems with an API key.

Get a signed message at your URL when a machine changes status, an alert opens or closes, or parts are logged.

What availability, performance and quality mean in What Started, and where each number comes from.

Where parts made and bad parts come from, how operators log scrap, and how ideal and target rates feed OEE.

Invite people to your plant, pick what each person can do, and change or remove them later.

What Free and Pro include, how per-machine billing works, and how to upgrade, change your card or cancel.

Download your machine history and machine list, read everything through the API, how long history is kept, and how to delete it.