Defining Repair Operations

You can define and simulate the repair operations for the general and the transfer systems.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Create General Operations and Transfer Operations.
See Also
Defining Operations and Operation Parameters of Systems
Adding or Removing Operations and Operation Parameters
Defining Operations and Operation Parameters of Systems

Defining Repair Operations for General System

You can repair the operations for General System.

  1. Right-click column header and select Repair Operations.
  2. Click Add or Remove to add a repair operation.


    The attributes are:

    Operation
    Displays the name of operation.
    Time to Repair
    Displays the time distribution for repair time (you can set the time to repair).
    Mode
    Displays time measured in terms of either Total time, Operation (busy) time, and Production (parts produced) (you can set the mode).
    Time Between Failures
    Displays the time distribution between occurrences of the operation (you can set the time between failures).
    Repair Start
    This column has three different options:
    • Continue : Continues normal operations for remaining time.
    • Restart: Closes the operations and restarts the operations on the existing products.
    • Scrap: Scraps existing products and restarts normal operations.
    Repair End
    This column has two options:
    • Immediate: The option is used when the current operation should be stopped immediately.
    • When Operation Ends: The option is used when the interrupt starts after the current operation ends.

  3. Right-click column header and select Repair Operations to close the repair operations and return to General operations.


  4. Select a system and simulate.
    The tile displays a red color state at the time of repair operation (you can see a change in current state icon on General system tiles).

    The following is the HTML report (table) of General system defining repair operation.

Defining Repair Operations for Transfer System

You can define repair operations for transfer system.

  1. Right-click the Transfer system and select Define Operations.
    The Define Operations dialog box appear.
  2. Right-click column header and select Repair Operations to display the list of repair operations.
    The columns are updated with the repair operations, for more information on repair operations, see Defining Repair Operations for General System
  3. Select the Root system > Play > HTML Report .
    The tile displays a red color state at the time of repair operation. You can see a change in current state icon representation on Transfer system tiles.

    The following is the HTML report (table) of Transfer system defining repair operation.

    Note: Only Continue option is available as Repair End behavior for Transfer Systems.