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Setting up Duty Codes

A duty code identifies a duty cycle, which is the time that an entity spends in an active state as a fraction of the total time under consideration. This could mean that the unit runs 50% during its production period of six hours or that it runs every hour for 20 minutes during a 24 hour day (33%), and so on. In strategy development analyses, duty codes are recorded on failure modes.

In APM you can define duty codes for selection on failure modes.

Note: If you download failure modes from the APM Online Content Library to your maintenance task analyses (MTA2), any duty codes that do not already exist in APM are automatically added.

To Create a Duty Code

1.	On the site’s Strategy Development view, select the Settings tab. Select the Failure Modes tab and the Failure mode settings node in the tree.

Tip: You can also select the site’s Administration menu, Strategy Development Settings, and then Failure Modes. The Failure Mode Management Settings dialog appears.

2.	Select the Duty Codes tab.

3.	Click New. The Duty Code dialog appears.

4.	Enter the duty code.

5.	To change the icon that appears for this duty code, click Change Icon, select a graphic, and click OK.

6.	Click OK to close the dialog. The duty code appears in the tab.