How shift event preference working in RTPPM?

[Sathishkumar_C]

We are having following hierarchy in our RTPPM instance.

---Plant

-------Area 1

-------Area 2

-----------Machine 1 (working with 2 shifts)

-----------Machine 2 (working with 3 shifts)

-----------Machine 3 (working with 3 shifts)

As per PTC's best practices the shift event has to be configured at top level node. Here what is the best approach to configure?

• What will happen if I’m configuring shift event for both (Area 2 with three shifts) and (Machine 1 with two shifts)?
• How the shift preference works with RTPPM? 
• Can I configure different type shifts at all 3 levels?

@mstarnaud 

[mstarnaud · Accepted solution]

Hi Satishkumar

I know you already got answers for this elsewhere, but I since you asked here I wanted to make sure people could see the answer.

An Article was made to answer this : How to set the shift events on multiple equipments in ThingWorx Apps. In short, most people set a "standard" schedule at a top level in the hierarchy (at the factory level) and then override it on specific equipments. When looking for an equipment's shifts it looks on that equipment first, if it doesn't have any shift then it checks the parent, and so on.

Don't forget that you can't have gaps in your schedule. So for example if a machine doesn't run during the night, it should use No Shift & No Crew during that time.

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