Effect of stocking an item

Background

For each FBM where a replacement is defined, the replacement can be performed with a stocked item or a non-stocked item. Using a stocked item is done by linking a stock part to the FBM, and setting the Stocked value to TRUE.

When a stocked item is used, then Asset Strategy Optimization will ignore the value set in parameter Delivery time, and will use 0 instead. This has an impact on the downtime of the component, which could be sufficient to drive it from critical to non-critical.

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Stock Analysis screen

When ticking the box in the column Stocked, what will happen is that Asset Strategy Optimization will recalculate the downtime and show the resulting factor classification in column Downtime. If this appears to be non-critical, then the cell will turn green.

Note: if there is any other reason for Asset Strategy Optimization, apart from downtime, to consider the item as critical, then it will remain critical (red), even though downtime will be reduced to a non-critical level.

Candidate for Stock

The column candidate for stock is a convenient indicator, in that it already does the step explained above. I.e. it probes the effect of ticking the Stocked box and tries the effect. If the result would be 'green', then it considers the element a candidate for stock, and puts a tick-mark in the box. The user may expect that actually ticking the corresponding box in the column Stocked, will make the Critical cell for that item turn green.

Stock regime changed

The column Stock regime changed keeps track of changes the user has made during the analysis. As the user may place or remove a tick mark in the column Stocked, it is convenient to be able to tell by looking at the Stock regime changed columns what changes were made.