Note: Equipment Calendar is also documented in the Surface Menu section.
The Equipment Calendar function enables exclusion of the particular time periods from the crew production time. These shutdowns are taken into account during timing calculations. The assignment pattern is very flexible: it works for a particular crew or all crews, for a particular shift or the whole day and allows replication of the defined behavior over period of time as desired. Please note that the calendar will clean out a schedule for a crew which is no longer present.
To define or check a schedule for the particular date, select year and click month and then day buttons. The selected month and day tiles will be highlighted. The list box in the lower right corner of the dialog displays the list of units having downtimes at the particular date with shift numbers shown. Also every day tile has a column of small toggles corresponding to the shifts. These toggles are colored red if the equipment is down on the corresponding shifts, yellow if some crews are not working on that day and not colored (gray) if everything is working. This information refers to the particular unit or all crews depending on the value of toggle in the upper right corner. The schedule for the particular shift may be changed manually by clicking on the corresponding toggle box of that day.
To assign a desired pattern for any extended period of time, simulate the following scheme:
1. Set the beginning date.
2. Set the crew selection toggle and pulldown as desired.
3. Select shifts to set and action (working or not).
4. Select appropriate time pattern in the Repeat pulldown (e.g. Weekly).
5. Set the duration (e.g. 5 years).
6. Click on the Apply button.
The left-hand-side will be updated to reflect the applied pattern for the month shown. The current schedule information is stored in the file "exec\schedule.dta" and may be saved and later loaded under other file names using Save As and Load buttons.
It should be noted that the changes are absolute, but relative: if user applies 1st shift down and then in a separate step applies 2nd shift down, then the 1st shift is working.
The calendar always defines three shifts per day, but actual timing may be limited to two or one shifts per day during timing.
If current equipment definition does not have the equipment used in the current calendar user will be prompted to remove that information from calendar to keep calendar clean. If it is undesirable that unit information will not be removed.
Once the calendar is completed, a report can be generated for the whole year and saved as a text file for printout. Now that the previously defined equipment have a schedule or calendar to follow, the next step in the mine planning can be the Timing (surface or underground).
The Unit Report (Report Formatter) is shown here:
The Unit Report that follows here is in the ASCII Text file viewer. This report can be exported to Excel and/or Access for additional refinement.
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Pulldown Menu Location: AdvMine
Keyboard Command: calendar
Prerequisite: Equipment should be defined for the routine to
be used in its full capacity
File Name: \lsp\mineutil.arx