PS. Maintenance Delays

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Last updated: Jan 30, 2023
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Overview

Maintenance delays, listed in the Maintenance Delays step, are delays which are applied to individual pieces of equipment.

Lists of Equipment units and their Types are filled in automatically based on the data from the previous setup steps.

Delays can be created manually for each piece of equipment or be imported from Excel. More details see below.

Equipment which has maintenance delays set is shown in bold green

Adding Maintenance Delays

  1. Select a piece of equipment from the Equipment list.

  2. In the Delays panel, press the blue plus icon.

  3. Choose a delay type from the dropdown list in the Type column.

Adding delay and selecting its type

4. Configure the delay as required. Configuration options are explained in the section below.

Configuring Delays

Section

Description

Section

Description

Recurring Delay

  • Untick if the delay is a singular occurrence, and specify Start and End time for the Single Delay.

  • If the delay happens more than once, then leave this option ticked and fill in the subsequent data.

Time of Day

Set the Start time of the delay and the End time or the Duration.

 

Recurrence Setup

Daily - specify the recurrence at a daily granularity.

Weekly - specify the recurrence at a Weekly granularity.

Monthly - specify the recurrence at a Monthly granularity.

Yearly - specify the recurrence at a Yearly granularity.

Recurrence Range

The overarching duration in which the delay will be applied.

Start date - specify the start date from which the delay will take effect.

End Date:

  • No end date - the delay will continue throughout the schedule.

  • End after - choose to end the delay after several occurrences.

  • End by - hard end date for the delay.

Importing Delays from Excel

Configuring Excel template

To import Delays from Excel, it must be organised in Excel into 3 columns at least:

Column

Data

Example

Column

Data

Example

1st column

Equipment Name.

Name should be the same as specified in the Site Lists > Crushers/Loaders/Other Equipment, otherwise you'll get Invalid Data Copied error message, informing that certain equipment name doesn’t exist in the project.

 

2nd column

Start Time

3rd column

End Time

4th column (optional)

Delay Type.

Name of the Delay should be the same as specified in the Delays setup step, otherwise you'll get Invalid Data Copied error message, informing that certain delay type doesn’t exist in the project.

Importing Maintenance Schedule

  1. Select the Import from Excel button from the toolbar.

  2. Add a new source by pressing the blue plus button.

  3. Select the Paste from Excel button.

    1. If no data has been copied to the clipboard, the error message appears: “The data copied needs to be in three or four columns: Equipment name in the first column, the start date in the second column, and end date in the third; optionally, with Delay Type in the fourth column.”

  4. Change the Delay Type, if required.

  5. Set whether or not the delay will be used.

  6. The imported schedules will be automatically filled in for the equipment specified in Excel and shown in bold blue.

    1. Once the delays have been imported and OK is pressed, they can no longer be edited. To make adjustments in time or type, return to the Excel Sheet or Import Maintenance Delay window and make the necessary corrections there.