Understanding Meter Readings

Meter reading programs enable you to enter or update meter information about the equipment. You use meter readings to monitor equipment use and initiate maintenance tasks that are based on accumulated statistical units such as miles. For example, you can schedule maintenance for a machine or piece of equipment based on mileage, elapsed time (hours), fuel consumption, cycles, or tonnage. You can define as many accounts for statistical units as you need. However, you can use only six types of statistical units to initiate maintenance. You determine the six types of statistical units that you want to use (such as odometer, fuel, and hours).

You can enter and update meter readings for individual pieces of equipment or for multiple pieces of similar equipment. For speed meter readings, you can create templates to preload the applicable equipment in the order that you select. You can also indicate when a meter rolls over, and you can perform meter changes.