Concepts Tasks Settings Creating Indicator Templates Contents Creating a Template from an Indicator Creating a Cumulative Indicator Template Creating a Numeric Indicator Template Creating a Calculated Indicator Template Creating a Descriptive Indicator Template Creating a Rule-based Indicator Template Moving Indicator Templates to a Different Site Viewing Where Indicator Templates are Used You can use indicator templates to quickly create indicators for many similar assets. For example, you could create an odometer indicator template for a fleet of trucks. You could then use the odometer template to create or copy an odometer indicator to each truck in the fleet. You cannot enter readings for indicator templates, only for asset indicators that are linked to a specific piece of equipment. Indicator templates include all of the same information as actual indicators, except that they do not contain references to specific assets. You can use indicator templates to define the states and alarm settings for a group of asset indicators. For example, if you have a descriptive indicator for tire condition, you can standardize how employees record the tire condition for the entire truck fleet. You can also standardize the warnings or alarms that are triggered when certain tire conditions are recorded on the system. If you change an indicator template, the changes only apply to new indicators created from the template. APM does not push the changes out to existing indicators based on the template. APM provides many standard indicator templates, which you can use and revise as needed. To view templates, select the site’s Inspection Management view, Indicators tab, and Templates tab. The topics in this section explain how to create templates for the four main types of indicators (cumulative, numeric, descriptive, and rule-based), as well as for indicators that use calculations.
