Maintenance

The Maintenance panel is used to view the progress of equipment repairs at the workshop. A unit of equipment in the workshop will typically pass through the following stages:

• Diagnosis
• Waiting for parts
• Waiting for fitter
• Repair
• Available (can be allocated to a location)

Repair states are used to monitor the progress of equipment in the Maintenance workshop. For example a unit might have had a primary state of Down for a number of hours. While in this state, the unit can also be associated with repair states which help identify what took time to fix. For example:

Waiting for fitter -> Diagnosis -> Waiting for parts -> Repair -> Available.

This example could show that the majority of time was spent waiting for parts, meaning spares supplies may not be adequate.

The columns that appear in the panel are defined as repair states in Reference Edit. As an equipment unit progresses to the next stage, it can be dragged to the appropriate column in the Maintenance panel. An event is generated and added to the Pitram database. Stages in the Maintenance cycle may be skipped for some units (i.e there is no need to wait for parts or wait for a fitter).

The Maintenance panel will typically be viewed alongside a Location Activity Panel. When repairs are complete, equipment units may then be allocated to a location.

To setup a Maintenance panel:

1. In the Panels tab of the Display pane, right-click and select New Panel:
2. Select Maintenance Panel from the list of panel types and enter a name for the panel.
3. Specify how the equipment in the panel will be located. There are a number of ways to do this:

   Option	Description
   All Locations	Select equipment at ALL locations.
   Active List	Select from an active list of locations.
   Dispatch Region	Select from the locations in a Dispatch Region.
   Locations	Select equipment at the locations selected from the list.

4. Select the equipment to be included on the panel:

   Option	Description
   All Equipment	Include all equipment.
   Active List	Equipment listed in an active list.
   Equipment units	Equipment selected from a list of all equipment.

5. Select the equipment primary states that will determine which equipment units are displayed.

   Option	Description
   All Down primary states	Equipment with any of the Down primary states will be included in the display.
   Active list	Select an active list of Down primary states.
   Selected Down primary states	Select from a list of Down states.

6. Finally, click Finish to complete the panel definition.