A frame represents a single period of time.

This might be a day, shift, event, product run, batch or even a single moment.

A frame has a start time, an end time (which might be the same as the start time), and may have a number of attributes that provide information about that period.

For example, a frame for a business day might include attributes like…

• Total amount of production,
• Total amount of wastage,
• Number of Quality Issues or failed inspections.
• Total amount of planned and unplanned downtime etc.

Layered Frame Analytic methods are designed to help you calculate and automate capturing these details.

Frames can also store tables of data and lists of frames (called framesets). These are used during the analytic process.