Concepts Tasks Settings Triggering Rules and Cycles Contents Work Triggers Creating an Exception Triggering Rule Creating a Time-based Rule Clause Creating an Indicator-based Rule Clause Using Early Warning Trigger Clauses Adding an Early Warning Clause to a Triggering Rule Resetting Work Triggers on an Asset The topics in this section explain how to set up triggering rules and cycles for standard jobs and PM routes. Triggering rules tell APM when to create work orders from a standard job or preventive maintenance (PM) route. For example, you might define a triggering rule for a standard job that says “trigger every 30 days OR every 2000 miles.” You can create a triggering rule for each standard job or PM route. You can create rules using a combination of conditions. Conditions can be based on: • A time-based frequency (for example, every 30 days) • A shutdown occurrence (for example, the Annual shutdown) • A cumulative measurement (for example, every 2000 miles or when the vehicle reaches 50,000 miles) • The asset’s operating condition (for example, when the temperature exceeds 100o or when the pressure is less than 10 PSI) Put these conditions in a triggering rule using rule clauses. For example, the rule “trigger every 30 days OR every 2000 miles” uses two rule clauses: every 30 days and every 2000 miles. When one of those clauses is true, the work order is generated from the standard job. You can create standard jobs that use shadowing to trigger different tasks at different times. APM does this using triggering cycles. Each time APM generates a work order from a standard job, one triggering cycle has occurred. You can set up standard jobs where one set of tasks is triggered on some cycles and other sets are triggered on other cycles. For example, you might want tasks A and C to be triggered every week and task B only every four weeks.
