Note: Axeda Preventive Maintenance is a separately licensed application. If the Platform is not licensed for it, the Preventive Maintenance application and associated tools and features will not display in the Axeda® Connected Product Management Applications. (Contact Axeda Technical Support for more information.) Also, your ability to create rules for maintenance is controlled by user group privileges. Contact your Platform administrator if you have questions about your privileges.
Maintenance rules allow you to use the Maintenance Event and Maintenance Item triggers to execute actions automatically. For example, you may want the Maintenance Event to trigger an automatic reset of the maintenance item counter (Reset Maintenance Item action).
The Maintenance Event trigger differs from the Maintenance Item trigger in that the Maintenance Event fires for each and every cycle while the Maintenance Item trigger fires once for a specific value. For example, suppose you have a Maintenance Item called OilChange, with a Count Interval of 3000 (so that the oil is changed every 3000 miles). You could set up a maintenance rule using the Maintenance Event that will remind you for every oil change every 3000 miles. Now suppose that the vehicle requires a major servicing at 50,000 miles. You would use the Maintenance Item trigger in a rule to remind you when the Counter value equals 50000.
The Maintenance Event trigger can check for the following conditions for the selected Maintenance Item:
o Is the Counter value greater than the Target, Reminder 1, or Reminder 2?
o Is the Current Time greater than the sum of the Target Date and Target/Reminder1/Reminder2?
The Maintenance Item trigger can check for the following conditions for the selected Maintenance Item:
o Is the Counter value greater than the value specified when the rule was configured?
o Is the number of days from the last reset date to the current date greater than the value specified when the rule was configured (Time)?
Note: At any time while running the wizard, you can click Cancel to discard any information entered and exit to the View and manage rules page.
Warning! When moving backward and forward through the wizard, use the wizard's Back and Next buttons. Do NOT use your browser's back and forward tools.
1. Navigate to the Axeda® Configuration application.
2. Depending on what you want to do, this step differs:
§ To create a rule, select Rule from the New menu. The Rule wizard starts.
§ To edit an existing action, select Rules from the View menu. From the list of existing rules, click the name of the rule you want to edit. The Rule wizard starts.
3. In the Create new rule or Edit rule page, type a name for this rule. The name is required and you can use up to 50 alphanumeric characters. The rule appears by this name in the Axeda Applications.
4. To assist other users in selecting this rule, type a brief description. This field is optional.
5. From the Type list, select the trigger, Maintenance Event or Maintenance Item. After creating a rule, you cannot change this type. To do so, you need to delete the existing rule and create one.
6. Click Next to display the Models for rule page.
7. In the table of Available Models, select the check box of each model to which you want to apply this rule, and click Add Checked. To select all models in the table, click Add All.
8. Click Next to display the Scope for rule page and review the list of models, asset groups, and assets for this rule. You can change the scope for this rule as follows:
a. To change the models for the rule, click Models. Use the Models for rule page to change the list of models selected for the rule.
b. To change the asset groups for the rule, click Asset Groups, and use the Asset Groups for Rule page to change the list of asset groups selected for the rule.
c. To change the assets for this rule, click Assets, and use the Assets for Rule page to change the list of assets selected for the rule.
9. Click Next to configure the conditions for executing this rule (Configure Maintenance Event rule page). Refer to "Conditions for triggers" (above) if you need an explanation for the conditions. To configure the conditions.
a. If you want the rule to fire continuously (that is, every time the conditions are met), select the Consecutive check box. If this check box is cleared, the rule will fire only once.
b. From the Maintenance Item list, select the maintenance item to which this rule applies.
c. Select the type of condition that will cause this rule to fire, Counter or Time, or select both.
d. For a Maintenance Event trigger, select from the list the specific Counter and/or Time condition that will cause this rule to fire. For a Maintenance Item trigger, type the value for Counter and/or Time that you want the trigger to check against the current values.
Note: If you select both Counter and Time, the rule will fire if EITHER Counter or Time conditions are satisfied.
10. Click Next to display the Actions for rule page. To configure the Action(s) for this rule:
a. From the table of Available actions, click Filters to show the filter boxes if they are not already shown.
b. To view all actions to which you have privileges, click Filter without typing any search values. To narrow the search, type Name, Description, or Summary criteria and click Filter.
c. Select
the check box of each action that you want to execute for this rule, and
click Add Checked.
To select all actions in the table, click Add
All.
To create a new action, click Create an
action and follow the wizard to create the action.
11. Click Next to configure the user groups for the rule. Alternatively, click Finish to save the rule now.
12. In the User groups for rule page, select the check box of the user groups that you want to be able to edit this rule, and click Add Checked. (To select all user groups, click Add All).
13. Click Next to review the rule configuration, or click Finish to save the rule now.
14. In
the Review changes to rule page, review
the summary of rule information and click:
Finish to save the new rule (or
changes to an existing rule), exit the wizard, and display the View
and manage rules page.
Back to edit settings (and then
click Finish to save the changes
and the rule)
Cancel to discard all the information
entered in this wizard and display the View
and manage rules page.