Understanding Status History
You can review the history of an equipment record or work order by the statuses that have been assigned to it, such as available, down, working, and standby. This information is especially useful to maintain an audit history of operational statuses and to determine the amount of time that equipment has been idle due to downtime. You can also review status history for equipment registration.
When you access Work With Status History, in addition to the statuses that have been assigned to an equipment record, you can also 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, or miles.
The cumulative hours for all occurrences of a particular status over the life of the equipment.
Remarks that were entered when you changed the status of the equipment.
From Work with Status History, you can access Downtime Analysis, from which you can determine the mean or average time between product failures. This information is especially useful when comparing actual product downtime with warranty expectations.
Processing options enable you to revise existing remarks for any status change, enter a new remark, or protect the remarks field from future revisions.
When you track the mean time between failures for equipment, the system calculates the total time that the equipment is operational.