What is a maintenance job ?
The system designer creates the maintenance job. The job definition contains a maintenance interval for a specific process component, for example, a pump. The job also contains maintenance instructions for the operator.
When the specified maintenance interval expires, the operator will get an alarm to make sure that the requested maintenance is performed in due time. The operator will then acknowledge the alarm, perform the actual maintenance job and then complete the alarm. Once completed, a new maintenance interval is started.
How to create a maintenance job
You define a maintenance job by clicking the 
icon and
then selecting the appropriate process component (IGSS object) in the
Select Object dialogue. You can
then select the maintenance type(s) you want to apply to the object. Dependent
on the object type selected, the check boxes for some maintenance types
may be grayed out.
Pressing OK from this dialogue brings you to the Maintenance Job Definition dialogue.
If you utilize user administration, the current user must have the Can use system commands right to create maintenance jobs.
The Maintenance Job Definition dialogue
This dialogue has one tab for each maintenance task defined for the current object. Note that you can have more than one job of each type (periodical, used time, changes or counter) applied to one object.
For further details about the individual tab, click its name below.