Routes and Waypoints

To deploy the reference groups for routes and waypoints:

  1. In Pitram Reference Edit, select Other Actions | Deploy Reference Data on the navigation pane header.
  2. Scroll down to Configuration Items | Locations.
  3. Make sure that the following groups are selected:
    Route
    RouteGroup
    Waypoint
    WaypointPair
    WaypointRuleCriteria
    WaypointRuleAction
    WaypointCriteriaCategory
    WaypointActionType
  4. Click OK to save your settings.

  5. The following reference data groups are shown under Groups | Configuration Items | Locations:

Before you can work with waypoints, you must define their criteria and actions.

Waypoint rules specify actions that will occur when a unit of equipment or a person enters the zone of influence of a waypoint. Rules are comprised of an action and criteria. All of the criteria configured on a rule must be satisfied before the rule’s action is performed. The action itself will produce an event against the equipment that passed the waypoint.

For example, if a truck hits a given waypoint and is travelling in a given direction the rule action may be to automatically allocate the truck to a particular loader. A waypoint may have multiple rules configured, for example one rule that is specific to truck model A and another to truck model B.

Define Criteria

To define waypoint criteria:

  1. Select Groups | Configuration Items | Locations | WaypointCriteriaCategory.
  2. On the toolbar, click Checkout.
  3. Click New WaypointCriteriaCategory to define waypoint criterion.
  4. Define the following set of criteria. Use the same values when specifying Name, Code and Abbreviation tokens.
  5. You must use the same mixture of upper and lower case as shown in the table below:

    Name Code Abbreviation
    AssignedDestination AssignedDestination AssignedDestination
    CycleStatus CycleStatus CycleStatus
    Direction Direction Direction
    Equipment Equipment Equipment
    PrimaryStatus PrimaryStatus PrimaryStatus

    For example, the Assigned Destination criterion will be defined as:

    When you have finished, all five criterion will look like this:

  1. Click Check-in on the toolbar to make the group read-only.

Define Actions

To define waypoint actions:

  1. Select Groups | Configuration Items | Locations | WaypointActionType.
  2. Click Check-out on the header.
  3. Click New WaypointActionType and define the following:
  4. You must use the same mixture of upper and lower case as shown in the table below:

    Name Code and Abbreviation
    Allocate Equipment to Equipment ALLOC_EQ_TO_EQ
    Allocate Equipment to Location ALOC_EQ_TO_LOC
    Assign Equipment to Destination ASSIGN_DEST
    Dispatch Truck DISPATCHTRUCK
    Raise Destination Alarm DESTINATION_ALARM
    Raise Exclusion Alarm EXCLUSION_ALARM
    Raise Material Alarm MATERIAL_ALARM
    Record Dump RECORD_DUMP
    Record Load RECORD_LOAD
    Record Dump at Assigned Destination RECORD_DUMP_DEST
    Record Status Change STATUS_CHANGE
    Set Attribute SET_ATTRIB

    The WaypointActionTypes are the actions that will be listed in the Waypoint dialog in Pitram 3D.

  1. Click Checkin and then Publish your changes to make them available to other Pitram applications and services.

Once routes and waypoint actions have been deployed, you can Add Waypoints.