Maintenance Calendars

Set up calendars to define Machine Maintenance Calendars

Maintenance Calendars

To access this panel:

The Calendars dialog's Maintenance Calendars tab is used to generate maintenance calendars for machines.

Copying Calendar Data from Excel

Date, time and duration calendar data can be copied and pasted into the Non-Working days grid and the Non-Standard Days grid from Excel.


Adding a Maintenance Calendar

  1. The Calendars dialog's Maintenance Calendars tab, click Add.

  2. In the Maintenance Calendar dialog, define the Calendar Name, Non-Working and Non-Standard Days, and click OK.

Adding Non-Working and Non-Standard Days

  1. In the Mine Calendar tab, Non-Working Days or Non-Standard Days group, click Add.

  2. In the Define Time Period dialog, define the From and To dates, and click OK.

Removing Maintenance Days

  1. In the Mine Calendar  tab, Non-Working Days or Non-Standard Days group, select the required item in the grid.

  2. Click Remove.


Field Details:

The following fields are available in this dialog:

Calendar Name: enter a unique name for the calendar.

Add: click this button to add a new maintenance calendar to the list, using the Maintenance Calendar dialog.

Remove: click this button to delete the selected maintenance calendar.

 

Non-Working Days:

Add: click this button to add a non-working date to the list.

Remove: click this button to remove the selected a non-working date from the list.

Non-Working Days grid:

From Date: non-working day's start date.

To Date: non-working day's end date.

Duration: non-working day's duration.

 

Non-Standard Days (Downtime):

Add: click this button to add a non-standard day to the list.

Remove: click this button to remove the selected non-working date from the list.

Non-Standard Days grid:

Date: non-standard day's date.

From Time: non-standard day's start time.

To Time: non-standard day's end time.

Duration: non-standard day's duration.

 

Adding Multiple Non-standard Days/Downtimes

You can quickly define a pattern of downtime events using the Define Multiple Time Periods dialog.

  1. In the Mine Calendar panel, Non-Standard Days (Downtime) section, select Add Multiple.

  2. In the Define Multiple Time Periods dialog, enter the start (From) and end (To) downtime phase.

  3. Choose the daily Pattern of the downtime event (Daily, Weekly etc.)

  4. Choose the duration of the recurring downtime pattern. You can choose to End by a particular date (meaning downtime will not be applied on the specified date) or you can define a number of occurrences, after which the downtime pattern is cancelled.

  5. Click OK to add all downtime dates/times for the specified range and pattern to the Mine Calendar panel.

Dates will be added to the Mine Calendar, appending any dates already there.

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