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Using Early Warning Trigger Clauses

You can set standard jobs to trigger work orders automatically using triggering rules. If you want APM to warn you when a job is about to be triggered, you can add an early warning clause to a triggering rule. You can add early warning clauses to time-based triggering rules and to rules that are based on cumulative asset indicators.

For example, you might have a job that needs to be done “every three months OR every 5000 miles.” This triggering rule could have the following early warning clauses:

Triggering Rule Clause	Early Warning Rule
trigger every three months	warn five days in advance
trigger every 5000 miles	warn 500 miles in advance

Every time that APM evaluates a triggering rule for a standard job, it checks if the job falls under the early warning condition. If the job is in an early warning condition, APM flags it so that you can see that the job will be triggered soon. Planners can review the early warning flags on their jobs to get a preview of work that is coming up. Planners can also see the early warning flags if they use the Generate PM Work Orders method.

You can also have APM automatically trigger the standard job when the early warning condition occurs. This gives you additional time to plan and schedule the job.

Early warning clauses for cumulative indicators only work if the indicator includes a daily average calculation. APM uses the daily average to predict when the triggering rule will likely be true and, therefore, when it will trigger the standard job.

To create an early warning rule using a cumulative indicator, you will need to:

1.	Set up a daily average calculation on the indicator.

2.	Add the early warning information to the triggering rule. For more information, see Using Early Warning Trigger Clauses.