Equipment Calendar

Note: Equipment Calendar is also located in the Underground Module section.

This command is accessed through the Surface Production Manager under Reserves/Timing. Highlight the Calendar tree, and the New Calendar button is activated if no calendars are present. If some are present, the edit button will also be active for editing a calendar. If it is a new calendar, the Calendar Name box appears to enter a name.

The Equipment Calendar allows for entity production down time. By default, entities are working every day, every shift. Entities include equipment, crews, pits and panels. Days and shifts defined in this calendar as down-time are taken into account during scheduling routines. 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. The calendar will clean out, or purge a schedule for a crew which is no longer present.

• Date Selection: The calendar should initiate on the current day. Use the left/right arrows to scroll through the months and years. The current or selected day is shown in blue. The shifts appear on the right of each day. If the shift is green, then all entities are working; if it is yellow, then some are working and some are down. If the shifts are black, then all entities are down on that day and shift.
  
• Event Rule Definition: This section is where the event down times are created and edited. Apply adds the event, Reset clears it for the next assignment.
  
• Event Entity Filter: The event list contains the Equipment, Pits or Panels and Crews. The choices for filtering are All Entities, All Equipment, All Crews, All Pits/Panels, Selected (highlight the desired Entity), and Matching (highlight the Entity to find the match).
  
• Shifts: The number of shifts checked here will display next to each day.
  
• Due to/Calendar Events: The options for down time are selected here. The default event is Manual. The other events are set under the Calendar Event Types, activated by clicking the button next to the "Due to" window. Calendar events can be anything that will cause a delay, such as a routine maintenance, a long wall move, or a dragline dead head. The Productivity Effect allows the option of Not Working at all, Working as normal, or Not Producing (yet still working).
  

• Repeat for/Label: This setting is how often the down time will repeat. This can be from a day, month, year or indefinite. This event can have a name, which is entered in the Label window. The calendar will refer to this label when encountering and reporting this event.
  
• Events for Date Selected/All Defined Events: This window displays the events for the highlighted day. If the List All Rules is on, then all the Events will be displayed here, no matter which day is highlighted.
  
• Rule Report: This report displays all of the rules defined for down time within the calendar.
  

• Year Report: This reports all days for the selected calendar year.
  
• Unit Report: This reports all equipment and dates defined in the calendar. See example below.
  

•  SaveAs/Load: This saves the calendar, optionally as a new name. Load will open a new one, and give the option to append to the existing, open calendar.