The Equipment screen allows the creation, viewing, editing, and deleting of equipment. Equipment speeds can be defined with a default value or specific speeds using distance intervals.
To access the Maintain Equipment screen:
- Log in to ProTrack Warehouse.
- Select the Equipment tab under Configuration menu. The Maintain Equipment screen appears.
Maintain Equipment Tabs
Tab |
Description |
Equipment Type |
Displays the details of an equipment. |
Speed Break |
Displays the speed breaks associated with the selected equipment. |
Threshold |
Displays the threshold factors associated with the selected equipment. |
Table 33. Maintain Equipment Tab Descriptions
Adding New Equipment
To add a new equipment:
- Enter an Equipment Type Name, which can be alphanumeric.
- Enter a unique Equipment Type ID, which can be alphanumeric.
Maintain Equipment Field Descriptions
Field |
Description |
Equipment Type Name |
Type the equipment name, which can be alphanumeric. |
Equipment Type ID |
Type a unique equipment ID, which can be alphanumeric. |
Equipment Make |
Type the details of the manufacturer. |
Manufacture Date |
Select the date of manufacture. |
Equipment Model |
Type the description for equipment model. |
Initial Cost |
Enter the cost of the equipment in USD. |
Schedule Maintenance |
Select a date for servicing. |
Notes |
Type any additional information, if any. |
Table 34. Maintain Equipment Field Descriptions
- Fields that are in bold are mandatory, all other fields are optional.
- Click
to enter dates for the Manufacture Date and Schedule Maintenance.
- The Equipment ID must match what is being sent in the WMS file.
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- Click on the 'Speed Break' tab.
- To set a default horizontal and vertical speeds, enter the speeds in each field accordingly.
- If default speed breaks are entered then you cannot enter multiple speed breaks and the 'Add Speed' links are unavailable.
- All speeds must be in minutes per inch.
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- To set multiple horizontal and vertical speed breaks, click the 'Add Speed' link in the 'Vertical Speed' section of the table. 'Add Vertical Distance' popup appears.
- Type the Upper Distance and Vertical Speed. Click
to add the speed break.
- Repeat until all speed breaks have been entered.
- Lower Distance will be greyed out as it uses the upper distance from the previous vertical speed break. This is done to avoid any overlapping of the speed breaks.
- Always enter the Upper Distance greater than the Lower Distance.
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- Click the 'Add Speed' link in the 'Horizontal Speed' section of the table. 'Add Horiztonal Distance' popup appears.
- Type the Upper Distance and Horizontal Speed. Click
to add the speed break.
- Repeat until all speed breaks have been entered.
- Click on the 'Threshold' tab to set thresholds to the equipment type. Thresholds are used to trigger a re-trip within an assignment.
- Type threshold values for Lines, Units, Weight, and/or Volume. The re-trip will be triggered based on which criteria is fulfilled first.
- Click
and the equipment will be created.
Searching Equipment
To search for a particular equipment:
- Click
in the Maintain Equipment screen and a popup screen appears.
- Type either the Equipment Name or Equipment ID.
- To list Equipments with names starting with a particular character, enter the character into the field. For example, to search equipments starting with the character 'F', enter 'f' in the equipment name field to list equipments with names starting with f.
- If no search criteria are specified, all the equipment types will be listed in the 'Equipment Search Results' section.
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- Click
and records matching the selected criteria are listed in the 'Equipment Search Results' section.
Viewing & Editing Equipment
To view and edit equipment:
- Search for the particular equipment to edit.
- Click on the Equipment ID link from the 'Equipment Search Results' section.
- To edit the speed breaks, click the 'Speed Break' tab. You can edit the existing default speed breaks or multiple speed breaks.
- To edit the thresholds, click the 'Threshold' tab.
- Equipment Make, Manufacture Date, Equipment Model, Initial Cost, Scheduled Maintenance, and Notes are the only fields allowed for editing.
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- Click
to save any changes.