Machines can be configured via Plant view (section MONITORING): select a machine and at the bottom of the pane that appears, click the Edit button 
. The dialog that then appears depends per machine type.
This article describes the settings for a Carpet Loom machine types.
- Name: Enter a name for your machine or click Apply to use the naming suggestion.
The naming generation pattern can be configured via the Settings button
. - Order ID: The unique order number of your machine.
- Planning group: Is used to group machines if you want to use Connect for planning. Enter a tag to group machines of the same planning group. If you do not need the Connect planning, just enter Default.
- If the tag is new, 'Group will be added' will appear.
- If the tab already exists, that message does not appear.
- Remote machine: Check if the machine is not connected. For such machines, the design can be processed in Connect and transferred via a USB stick, but they cannot be monitored nor planned.
- Jacquard manufacturer: Select one of the supported manufacturers.
- Jacquard type: Select a jacquard type (depends on the selected Jacquard manufacturer).
- Creel positions: Enter the number of pile yarns that can weave within a single dent.
- Fabric: This field is auto calculated from the loom layout (configured on the Loom layout tab). It reflects the number of dents that can be planned for.
- Send report: The number of picks at which the loom can be restarted:
- For weave structures with a 1/2 V, 2/2 V, 2/3 V, the send report is 2.
- For weave structures with a 1/1 V, 1+1/2 V, 1+2/3 V, the send report is 4.
- Production: Enter the minimum production speed for your machine. This parameter will be used in the planning to estimate production order times.
- Pick density in schedule: When checked, the pick density is included in the schedule file for the machine. On the machine, the operator can decide to use this pick density or not.
