Main Equipment Utilization Breakdown

This interface appears when selecting the View } Utilization Breakdown } Main Equipment option from the main menu.

Equipment occupancy times aggregate in the following order:

1. Operation

2. Cycles

3. Procedure

4. Section

5. Branch

6. Equipment

The final aggregation three levels depend on the choice set on the bottom-left toolbar (see below). If the ‘Equipment to Sections’ button on the toolbar at the bottom-left of the table (see below) is set, then after unit procedures, the tree will aggregate procedure occupancy times to sections, then branches and then equipment resources (as shown above 1 - 5). If the ‘Sections-to-Equipment’ button is set, then the unit procedure times aggregate to equipment first and then to sections and branches.

Specification Choices / Comments

The following table describes the customization that can be applied to this interface.

Include / exclude / rearrange aggregation levels

The toolbar showing at the bottom left of the tree allows you to show/hide intermediate levels as wells as rearrange the top aggregation level. If you click on the first button, then the top nodes are the equipment resources. The total occupancy time of each equipment resource is then broken down to each section that the resource may be participating (in hosting procedures). If the second button is clicked, then the top nodes represent total equipment occupancy times for each section first (i.e., the top nodes represent sections or branches) and then each node breaks into all the equipment owned by the section.

The show/hide branches, show/hide sections and show/hide cycles buttons determine if the corresponding aggregate levels appear in the breakdown.

Order of Appearance

The list of equipment resources appears in this table ordered (by default) according to the earliest to latest time of engagement. This order can be changed if so desired. The top left toolbar offers you other options.The first button orders auxiliary equipment entries by start time (earliest to latest). The second button orders equipment entries alphabetically in ascending order (a to z). The third button orders equipment entries alphabetically in descending order (z to a). Finally, the last button, presents the equipment in a user-defined order (as kept by the process, see Equipment Order.