Overview

The Scheduling Planned Downtime function will allow the ability to schedule a one time PLANNED downtime for equipment in the future.

*Please keep in mind that this function is not meant for daily recurring tasks or per shift use.  Scheduled Planned Downtime is intended to be used for scenarios such as scheduled maintenance, holidays, etc.                                               

The Schedule Planned Downtime form can be accessed from  the Manage tab => Equipment Status => Schedule Planned Downtime drop down.

Once you have navigated to the Scheduled Downtime screen, you can begin to schedule the planned downtime.

The Add button will allow you to create a Scheduled Planned Downtime for specific start and end dates and times.

You will be able to give a brief description of the Downtime in the Description field.

The Planned Downtime drop down will allow you to choose the specific downtime reason being scheduled. 

If you are not familiar on how to add or modify planned downtime reasons, please see the help file on Equipment Statuses.

Validation Rules :

*Please note that the End Date/Time cannot be equal to or BEFORE the Start Date/Time.

Also, the End Date/Time cannot be set to the PAST.

This function will not allow an overlap of two scheduled planned downtimes for the same equipment.

After creating the Scheduled Planned Downtime, you will see it in the Scheduled Downtimes grid.

This grid will show you the Start date/time, End date/time, the description, equipment and the Planned Downtime type.

The Equipment column will indicate which equipment you have chosen.

• If only one piece of equipment is assigned – you will see the NAME of the equipment.
• If more than one, but not all the equipment is assigned – you will see it labeled as MULTIPLE EQUIPMENT.
• If All Equipment and Dynamically Add New Equipment boxes have been checked, it will be labeled as ALL EQUIPMENT.

*When the scheduled downtime is past the scheduled END time, the Scheduled Planned Downtime will disappear from the field.

To the right, you will see the list of all the equipment.

You can choose one or multiple pieces of equipment.

If the Dynamically Add New Equipment box is checked, this will AUTOMATICALLY add new equipment that has been created AFTER a Scheduled Planned Downtime has already been scheduled.

The Modify button will allow you to make any changes needed to the selected row.

The Remove button will delete the selected Scheduled Planned Downtime.

Reporting

You will be able to run reports on any past or future Scheduled Planned Downtimes.

The reports can be accessed under the Reports tab => Downtime => Scheduled Downtimes drop down.

Here you will see fields similar to other reports. There will be a Quick Select button for you to choose a time period, the Start and Stop Dates of the report you would like to see, and the ability to manually choose a Start and Stop Time for your report.

After choosing the date and time, you will need to select the Equipment you would like to see the reports created for.

Click on the Finish button and the report will run.

Expressions

There are three variables to be used with expressions.

For a brief explanation of the variables, please follow this link. PCSDB Constants and Variables.

Please follow this link if help is needed to assign or create Scheduled Planned Downtime expressions.

[PCSDB.scheduled_planned_downtime_code]

[PCSDB.prev_scheduled_planned_downtime_code]

[PCSDB.in_scheduled_downtime]

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