In-Place Operation with Empty Vessels

You use in-place operations for empty vessels to enable cleaning and maintenance of empty tanks and barrels, for example, repairs or processing of new vessels. The vessels must be empty before you can perform this type of operation. The system uses the setup information from the configured operation to determine what activity you can perform on a specific vessel, but you cannot specify the status in the operation itself. For example, to perform cleaning and maintenance activities on a tank, the tank's status cannot be Out of Commission. If you want to repair a tank, the tank status must be Out of Commission, and you should only be able to move the status to either Decommissioned or Active.

In the case of barrels, for cleaning and maintenance, you must set the barrel's availability code to a status other than Culled. For repairs, the availability code for the barrel must be Culled. For barrel disposal, you can set up the configured operation so that the operation changes the barrel status to Culled.

Note: You cannot use unknown vessels for in-place operations with empty vessels.