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.
Pulldown Menu Location:
Reserves/Timing in Surface Mining and Underground Menu
Keyboard Command: calendar
Prerequisite: Equipment and crews should be defined for the
routine to be used in its full capacity