Five percent left
is a phone call, not a chart.
Below a twentieth of its capacity, a silo has hours of feed left. This is the one silo alert worth waking somebody for.
Equipment
One silo, close to empty, with the load cells still reporting its weight every minute.
Silo
weight
The reading
- Metric
- weight (t)
- Source
- load cells under the silo legs
- Cadence
- every minute
The problem
Raw Meal Silo drops to 18 t against a 400 t capacity at 03:00. The routine reorder point passed a day ago and nobody acted on it. The mill has a few hours of feed left.
Critically low on stock
Add it from the silo's Triggers tab alongside the routine low stock preset. The two do different jobs, and having both is the point.
critically low on stock
Fires at 5% of the capacity you set for this silo, deep enough into empty that only an emergency delivery avoids a production stop. The recovery point sits at 15%, comfortably above where a single spike would flip it back off.
The response
The operator arranges an emergency delivery before the line stops. The alert carries the silo and the weight, so the call is made straight away.
- Sent by
- push, email and the in-app inbox
- Who is told
- the rule's recipients, then the escalation ladder
- Stops when
- somebody acknowledges
On your dashboard
Frequently asked questions
Open the silo's Triggers tab, select Browse presets, and add Critically low on stock. Add it alongside the routine low stock preset rather than instead of it: one books a delivery, the other stops a production halt.
Five percent of the capacity you set for that silo. It clears at 15 percent, which is comfortably above the point where one odd reading would flip it back off.
The rule's recipients, by push, email and the in-app inbox. Severity is your declaration, and this preset ships as critical because the consequence is a stopped line. Acknowledging stops the reminders.
Add the alert that stops a production halt
Set the silo's capacity once, and add both silo stock presets from the Triggers tab.