Attaching Reason Trees to Downtime Locations

Reason Trees are applied to downtime models to identify where the downtime event came from and the reason for the downtime. One reason tree can be used for both waste and downtime events.

Each downtime detail can have a cause reason and an action reason. These reasons are details on what, where, and why the downtime event occurred, and what was done to correct it.

Cause reasons are those things that caused the downtime or waste event to occur. Action reasons are the actions taken in response to the event.

These steps assume that you have configured a downtime event on a production unit.

To Attach Reason Trees to Downtime Locations

  1. Expand Plant Model, browse to the desired production unit, right-click and select Configure Events on <production unit name>. The Event Configuration dialog box appears.

  2. Select the Downtime event under Events Enabled On This Unit.

  3. Click Event Properties. The Downtime Configuration dialog box appears.

  4. Click the Cause Reason Trees tab.

  1. Under Downtime Locations, select a downtime location.

  2. Under Available Trees To Assign, select a cause reason tree to assign to the selected downtime location and click Assign Selected. To assign the cause reason tree to all downtime locations, click Assign All.

  3. Click the Other tab.

  4. To attach an action reason tree, click Enable Action Reason Tree and select the action reason tree from the list.

NOTE: Selecting Enable Research Selection will enable the Research tab in the Sequence of Events display for downtime events. Enabling research allows the user to identify a site user as the person responsible for researching the downtime event and to set the research as closed or open.

  1. Close the Downtime Configuration dialog box.

  2. Close the Event Configuration dialog box.