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Editing Unit Maintenance Plans |
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You create or modify unit maintenance plans using the unit maintenance plan editor. The usual way to open the editor is to click New Unit Maintenance Plan or Edit in the View section of Coding Definitions | Unit Maintenance Plans.
The unit maintenance plan record includes the following information:
The unit maintenance plan record also has to specify a timing basis. Roughly speaking, this means when the clock starts ticking for rescheduling the same work again. For examples of how the timing basis works, see Unit Maintenance Plans. In particular, the examples include how to set up jobs for times like "the second Tuesday of every month" or "every month on the 15th".
Once you have created a unit maintenance plan, you cannot change which unit and timing record are associated with it. You can, however, change the task. If the unit and/or timing record are no longer appropriate, you have to delete the existing unit maintenance plan and create a new one.
The unit maintenance plan editor contains the following:
Details section: Shows basic information for the record.
Task: The task to be scheduled. For more about tasks, see Tasks.
Unit: The unit on which the task should be scheduled. For more on units, see Units.
Inhibit: If this box is checkmarked, this unit maintenance plan record will be ignored whenever MainBoss generates planned maintenance work orders. This is an easy way to suspend a particular plan indefinitely, without actually deleting the record. For example, suppose that a piece of equipment is temporarily taken out of service and you don't know when it will be reactivated. You can suspend planned maintenance on that equipment by checkmarking Inhibit. When the equipment comes back into service, remove the checkmark and MainBoss will resume the usual schedule. In this way, you don't have to delete the unit maintenance plan records, then re-create them again later.
Slack Days: Additional days to add to the "End Estimate" to set the Work Order "Due Date" when a Work Order is created.
Maintenance Timing: A maintenance timing record telling when the task should be scheduled. For more about schedules, see Maintenance Timings.
Timing Basis: Options that control when the task will be rescheduled again. For the sake of clarity, we'll use Job X to refer to a job that has just been completed and Job Y to be the next time the same job should be performed on the same unit. Possible rescheduling options are:
Work Start: Job Y should be rescheduled relative to when Job X actually began. For example, if the schedule says "every 30 days", Job Y will be scheduled to begin 30 days after Job X began.
Work End: Job Y should be rescheduled relative to when Job X ended. For example, if the schedule says "every 3000 miles", Job Y will be scheduled for 3000 miles past the meter reading when Job X ended.
Scheduled Date: Job Y should be rescheduled relative to when Job X was scheduled, whether or not Job X was actually done at that time. For example, if the schedule says "every 3 months", Job Y will be scheduled for 3 months after Job X was supposed to be done, even if Job X was delayed or not done at all.
Read-only fields: If this unit maintenance plan has been used to create a work order in the past, the read-only fields in the Details section provide information about the most recent such work order.
View Work Order: If you click on this, MainBoss opens an editor showing the most recent work order (if any) generated from this unit maintenance plan. You can use this to view or edit the work order, as described in Editing Work Orders.
Generation Details section: Lists batch generation records that created work orders associated with this unit maintenance plan.
Work Orders section: Lists work orders generated from this unit maintenance plans.
View Work Order: Displays the contents of a work order selected in the Work Orders list. Note that the list often contains entries that do not correspond with work orders; the View Work Order button will only be enabled when you select an entry that does have an associated work order.
Errors section: Lists any errors that were encountered when generating work orders from this unit maintenance plan.
Save & New: Saves the current record and sets up the window for you to enter a new record. Fields in the new record will be blank or set to default values.
Save: Saves the current record. The editor window stays open in case you want to make more changes to the same record.
Save & Close: Saves the current record and closes the editor window.
Cancel: Closes the window without saving any changes you've made to the record since the last time you saved. When you Save the record, the Cancel button changes to Close, indicating that you can safely close the window without losing any changes.
Close: Closes the window. This button only appears after you've saved changes with Save or before you've entered any data at all. Otherwise, the button is labeled Cancel.
Change Schedule Basis: Opens a window to set the schedule basis for this unit maintenance plan. The schedule basis is when the clock starts ticking for future planned maintenance jobs—typically the date or meter reading for the most recent such job done on the unit. For more, see Specifying a Schedule Basis.
For more on unit maintenance plans, see Unit Maintenance Plans. For more on viewing unit maintenance plans, see Viewing Unit Maintenance Plans. For more on editors in general, see Using Editors.
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