Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Metrics User Guide - Manual (Page 30)

Chapter 3 Collecting Performance Data
• Day
A time pattern for a 24-hour day.
• Week
A time pattern for a standard 7-day week.
• Custom
A time pattern for arbitrary duration, e.g., a 14-day cycle or an
8-hour shift.
A time pattern is composed of a default value and a series of time
spans. The default value defines the value of the time pattern during
intervals where no time span is specified. Each time span specifies
the start time, end time, value (e.g., Available, Unavailable), and the
optional report name for the span. The default value for the time
pattern and the value for the time span can be a named state, a
numeric value, or another time pattern. Named states are simply a
set of values (e.g., 1, 0) to which you have applied descriptions (e.g.,
Available, Unavailable).
The sample time patterns available with FactoryTalk Metrics consist
of three 8-hour shift periods, each with a 30-minute break
(Unavailable), that make up the work day. The time pattern applies
Monday through Friday, and the facility is closed (Unavailable)
during the weekends.
The ability to reference other time patterns allows you to build time
patterns from other time patterns.
In the following tutorials you will create sample shift time patterns
in the Configuration Console: a Work Day time pattern that is
made up of shifts, and a Work Week time pattern made up of five
Work Days.
Configuring Time Patterns
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