Minimum alarm notification ranking

You can have parent assets display indicator alarms in the indicator monitoring panel. To prevent users from being inundated with alarm displays, you can control how high the alarms are pushed up the physical hierarchy. To do this, you will need to: • Enter alarm types for the indicator states (for example, Normal, Early Warning, and Critical). The alarm type describes the severity of the state of an indicator, and ranks it numerically relative to the other states. • Enter numeric rankings for your asset consequence priorities • Enter a minimum alarm notification ranking To calculate the alarm notification ranking, APM multiplies the alarm type ranking by the asset’s consequence priority ranking. Whenever this ranking is equal to or higher than the minimum alarm notification ranking, APM displays the alarm on the parent asset. For example, you might have: • Alarm Types: Early Warning (1), Alarm (5), and Critical (10) • Asset Consequence Priorities: Normal (1) and Critical (5) • Minimum Alarm Notification Ranking: (5) An Early Warning on a Normal asset (alarm notification: 1 x 1 = 1) is not be displayed on the parent asset, or on any other asset that is higher in the hierarchy. However, for an Early Warning on a Critical asset (alarm notification: 1 x 5 = 5) APM looks at the priority ranking of the parent asset and calculates the alarm notification ranking for that asset. If the parent asset is also a critical asset, APM displays the alarm on the parent asset, and then calculates the alarm notification ranking for its parent in the hierarchy. When APM reaches a parent asset with an alarm notification ranking below the minimum ranking, the alarm is not be pushed any higher in the hierarchy. To prevent alarms from being displayed in the top assets in the physical hierarchy, you should assign consequence priorities with low numeric rankings to those assets.

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Create a work order

Select this option to allow users to acknowledge indicator alarms by creating a work order or selecting an existing work order. If this option is cleared, the Work order option will not be available in the Acknowledge Indicator Alarm dialog.

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Work order from scratch is allowed

Select this option to allow users to create acknowledgment work order from scratch. If this option is cleared, the Create a new work document option will not be available in the Acknowledge Indicator Alarm dialog.

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Default work type

You can pick a default work type for the site. APM will use this default work type when a user acknowledges an indicator alarm by creating a request for work, work order, or work request.

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Mark as monitoring

Select this option to allow users to acknowledge indicator alarms by selecting the Monitoring option. If this option is cleared, Monitoring will not be available in the Acknowledge Indicator Alarm dialog.

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Mark as incorrect alarm

Select this option to allow users to acknowledge indicator alarms by marking the alarm as being incorrect. If this option is cleared, the Incorrect alarm option will not be available in the Acknowledge Indicator Alarm dialog.

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Mark as fixed during inspection

Select this option to allow users to acknowledge indicator alarms by marking them as being fixed during inspection. If this option is cleared, the Fixed during inspection option will not be available in the Acknowledge Indicator Alarm dialog. However, users will still be able to mark an alarm as fixed when entering indicator readings.

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Mark as incorrect reading

Select this option to allow users to acknowledge indicator alarms by marking readings as being incorrect. If this option is cleared, the Incorrect reading option will not be available in the Acknowledge Indicator Alarm dialog. However, users will still be able to mark readings that did not cause alarms as being incorrect.

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Default acknowledgment method

Select the acknowledgment method that will be the default selection in the Acknowledge Indicator Alarm dialog.

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Create a work order

When selected, this setting allows a failure record to be created when an alarm is acknowledged with a work order.

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Mark as fixed during inspection

When selected, this setting allows a failure record to be created when the acknowledgment method is fixed during inspection.

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Mark as monitoring

When selected, this setting allows a failure record to be created when the acknowledgment method is monitoring.

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Indicator alarm state

Select whether the alarm state of an indicator reflects the alarm state of its most recent reading or that of its most severe unacknowledged alarm. • Most recent reading - Whenever a new reading is processed for an indicator that has an unacknowledged alarm, the alarm state of the indicator is re-evaluated and either raised or lowered depending on the value of the new reading. The previous unacknowledged reading is marked as missed and the new reading, assuming it’s an alarm, becomes the reading that requires acknowledgment. In situations where the latest reading is a normal one, the indicator alarm is turned off altogether and no acknowledgment is required. • Most severe unacknowledged alarm - An indicator’s alarm level can only increase in severity as subsequent more severe readings are entered. It will not be turned off or reduced in severity by a subsequent normal or less severe reading. Instead, the alarm remains in effect until all of the unacknowledged alarm readings for the indicator have been explicitly acknowledged. When new readings are entered, previously entered unacknowledged readings are not marked as missed but remain with an acknowledgment status of either “waiting for acknowledgment” or “Re-acknowledgment required”, as the case may be.

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Allow sent work documents to be used on acknowledgment

Select this option to allow work documents that have already been sent to a CMMS (that is, the APM work document has been updated as “Sent to CMMS”) to be used to acknowledgment indicator alarms.

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Acknowledgment and failures

Indicates how failures are filtered for selection, based on asset. The options are: • Any asset – All failures at the site are available for selection • Acknowledgment asset and below – Failures for the acknowledgment’s asset and below in the hierarchy are available • Same branch of the hierarchy – Failures for acknowledgment’s asset and assets above and below in the hierarchy are available • Acknowledgment asset only – Only failures for the asset associated with the acknowledgment are available • Acknowledgment asset and above – Failures for acknowledgment’s asset and above in the hierarchy are available

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Enforce route compliance using barcode scanning

Select this option to enforce barcode scanning on a mobile device.

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Indicators calculated using a formula

Select this option to allow users to enter ad hoc readings for indicators that are normally calculated using a formula. If this option is cleared, the Enter reading option (on the indicator’s Tools or right-click menu) will not be available for calculated indicators.

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Indicators collected manually using work orders, checksheets or mobile devices

Select this option to allow users to enter ad hoc readings for indicators that are normally entered manually (through work order activity reports, checksheets, or mobile devices). If this option is cleared, the Enter reading option (on the indicator’s Tools or right-click menu) will not be available for manually-collected indicators.

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Indicators collected from an online data source

Select this option to allow users to enter ad hoc readings for indicators that are normally collected from an online data source. If this option is cleared, the Enter reading option (on the indicator’s Tools or right-click menu) will not be available for online indicators.

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Number to keep in list

The number of indicator readings to keep in the recent readings list for each indicator. When data is downloaded to a mobile computer, only this number of the most recent readings are included.

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Horizon

Amount of time (in days, hours, months, weeks, or years) used to track the collection status of indicators with collection windows. The horizon is also used to filter indicators in standard table configurations.

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Maximum size of inspection photos

Select the maximum dimensions (in pixels) for a checksheet inspection photograph. The choices are: • Smaller: 640 x 480 • Small: 800 x 600 • Medium: 1024 x 768 • Large: 1280 x 1024 • Original size The default is “Medium”.

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Include reason incorrect when marking a reading as incorrect

When this option is selected, users have the option of selecting a reason when flagging an indicator reading as incorrect.

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Reason is mandatory when marking a reading as incorrect

When this option is selected, users are required to select a reason when flagging an indicator reading as incorrect.

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Comment is mandatory when marking a reading as incorrect

When this option is selected, users are required to enter a comment when flagging an indicator reading as incorrect.

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Indicator type

When a new degradation indicator is added to an asset, this is the default indicator type.

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Maximum remaining life

Maximum that can be calculated for assets that use degradation rates at this site. If the calculated life exceeds this maximum, the value specified here is used instead.

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Acceptable deviation

Calculated degradation rates can be flagged to highlight possible problems by comparing them to the indicator’s previously selected degradation rate. Rates that deviate from the previously selected rate by more than the acceptable deviation are flagged for review.

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Indicator browse type default

Default option on Indicator Browse dialogs: • Copy the selected indicators – New indicators are created and assigned to the asset. • Link to the selected indicators – Indicators are assigned to the asset but exist independently.

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Checksheet default to normal default

When this option is selected, the Default to Normal is allowed for this indicator option is selected by default on new descriptive indicators and templates. The Default to Normal option is available in checksheet readings.

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Create a failure record when an alarm is acknowledged

Select this option to have a failure record created automatically when a user acknowledges an alarm with a request for work (when AWEIS is active), work request, work order, or the “fixed during inspection” flag.

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Create a downtime incident with the failure

If failure records are created when users acknowledge alarms, you can select this option to have a downtime incident created at the same time.

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