Understanding Equipment Status

You can review the history of a piece of equipment by the statuses that have been assigned to it, such as available, down, working, and standby. This capability is especially useful for maintaining an audit history of operational statuses and for determining the amount of time that a piece of equipment has been idle due to downtime.

When you access Status History, in addition to the statuses that have been assigned to a piece of equipment, you also can review:

• The ending time (if applicable) and beginning time for each status, as well as the associated dates.

• The total hours that are associated with each occurrence of a particular status.

• The lifetime meter reading at the time of the status change for any of the statistical accounts that you have defined, such as hours, fuel, miles, meter 4, meter 5, and meter 6.

• The cumulative hours for all occurrences of a particular status over the life of the equipment.

• Remarks that are entered when you changed the status of the equipment.

From Status History, you can access Downtime Analysis, from which you can determine the mean or average time between equipment failures. This information is especially useful when comparing actual equipment downtime with manufacturer specifications and analyzing the effectiveness of the maintenance program for a particular piece of equipment.

Processing options enable you to revise existing remarks for any status change, enter a new remark, or protect the Remark field from future revisions.

After you have reviewed the status history for a piece of equipment, you can track the mean time between failures for the period of time that you specify.