Understand how Real Downtime works
- Last UpdatedApr 14, 2025
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Downtime captures occurrences when a plant does not produce or produces below the target rate or quality specification. When the operating area or piece of machinery is 100% down and doesn't produce at all, this is called real downtime.
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Real Downtime - The machine is not operating at all.
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Virtual Downtime - The machine is operating at a lower capacity than usual.
Note Real downtime takes precedence over virtual downtime.
Downtime does the following:
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Monitors the configured condition to determine when Downtime occurs.
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Has permitted delays before reporting (StartDelay and StopDelay).
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Begins reporting when Downtime duration has continued longer than the permitted amount of time.
Downtime states
When the condition for a Downtime event turns True for longer than the StartDelay time, the status changes to ON.
The following diagram shows the four operational states of a Downtime event.
This table explains Downtime state change behavior.
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When |
Status changes to |
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Any single capture condition is True. |
Pending On; waits for amount of time specified in Start Delay. |
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Capture condition is True for longer than the StartDelay. |
On |
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Capture condition is False. |
Pending Off; waits for amount of time specified in Stop Delay. |
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All capture conditions are False for longer than the StopDelay. |
Off |