Site Settings

Site name, description, OEE data store, time zone and physical location.

The Site Settings tab is shown when a Site node is selected on the OEE Sites page. It defines the metadata that applies to every Area and Equipment under the Site — most importantly, the time zone used to evaluate shifts and the data store that holds OEE results.

Site Settings — Site info (name, description, data store) above, Location (time zone, lat/long, map) below

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Site info

Field	Required	Notes
Site name	Yes	Display name used everywhere the Site is shown.
Description	No	Free-text, multi-line. Useful for capturing physical address, contact, or operational notes.
Data Store	Recommended	Drop-down filtered to data stores whose Purposes include OEE. The Site cannot ingest data or measure OEE without one — see Prerequisites for how to flag a data store.

If no data store is selected, the field shows the warning "If no data store is selected, the site can not ingest data and measure OEE". The Site can still be saved (so you can come back later), but no OEE will be calculated until a data store is set.

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Location

The location block defines the time zone used by all OEE calculations for equipment under the Site, plus an optional point on a map for at-a-glance overviews.

Field	Required	Notes
Time Zone	Yes	Filterable drop-down of all system time zones. Defaults to Europe/Berlin for new Sites. The selected zone is used to evaluate shift recurrences and planned-stop schedules — change it deliberately, and only when the physical Site’s time zone really changes.
Longitude / Latitude	No	Decimal degrees, six decimals. Either type the values directly, or click on the map to drop a marker.

The marker on the map reflects the current Latitude / Longitude values and updates when you click the map.

All shift and planned-stop times are stored in UTC. The Time Zone setting only controls how those UTC instants are displayed — changing it does not change the underlying data or any historical OEE results. A shift configured as 07:00–15:00 in Europe/Berlin is stored as the corresponding UTC interval; switching the Site to America/New_York means the same interval is shown at New York wall-clock time (e.g. 01:00–09:00 in winter). If the equipment physically moves to a new time zone and you want the schedule to keep its local wall-clock semantics, recreate the shifts in the new zone.

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Saving

The Site Settings tab participates in the page-level Save / Cancel toolbar. The tree on the left is disabled while the editor has unsaved changes — save or cancel before selecting a different node.

Validation errors (missing name, missing time zone) are surfaced under the offending field and the Site tab header is marked invalid until they’re resolved.