Understand utilization reasons

Utilization reasons describe the current condition of an entity and associate each reason with a utilization state. A reason group is a category of reasons. For example, the reason Bottle Jam can belong to the reason group Bottle Descrambler Down, and results in a Downtime utilization state. On the production floor, a reason can be selected by a PLC, an input/output (I/O) connection to a device, or an operator.

The utilization reasons that operators can assign to events during production are created during system configuration. For a list of the configuration settings, see Utilization reason settings.

For information about configuring utilization reasons, see Configuring utilization reasons.