Category Prestart Interval - Ability to set Never

This guide will walk you through configuring the Pre-Start interval in Kynection. By adjusting the settings, you can allow Pre-Starts to not be mandatory while still capturing Faults for Equipment, enhancing flexibility in your operations.

Within the Equipment Dashboard - there is a section dedicated to Equipment Pre-Starts. This will highlight how many Pre-Starts have been completed per day versus how many are still remaining. The 'Checklists to Create' is driven by the Pre-Start Interval that can be configured on a Equipment Category level. We can now configure Equipment Categories to not require Pre-Starts to be raised but still granting the ability for Faults to be raised against the Equipment since the Faults are driven by the Pre-Start configured against the Category. In the current example - we can see that we have 8 equipment total that require a Pre-Start to be completed.

Lets review an Equipment Category. To Continue - click the categories menu.

Select a Category to review - in this case we are going to review the Trailers Category.

Select a piece of Equipment to continue.

For this Equipment - we can see that the Pre-Start button is still available for us to use. The button may not be available if the Equipment Category has no Pre-Start configured. The other reason can be that the Category does have a Pre-Start Interval configured and the Equipment currently being reviewed has completed a Pre-Start within the previous Pre-Start Interval. For Example if the Pre-Start Interval was set to Daily and a Pre-Start was completed on the current day.

Now to configure the Pre-Start Interval for a Category - click on Options.

Navigate to the categories section in the options menu.

From the Categories View - we can see the Pre-Start Interval that has been configured for the Categories of Equipment currently available. Select a Category that you want to no longer have a Pre-Start Interval to continue.

Against the Equipment Category - we can now see above the Pre-Start Interval when a Pre-Start itself has been configured - a new checkbox option is available - "No Prestarts but allow Faults". Selecting the Checkbox so that it is ticked will remove the ability for Equipment under this Category to raise Pre-Starts but keep the ability for Faults to be raised against the Equipment.

Switch the setting to "on."

Now that the Option has been enabled - we can see that the Pre-Start Interval option has been removed.

Once complete - click on the tick in the toolbar to proceed back to the Category View.

We can now see that the Category previously adjusted will now have its Pre-Start Interval display as Never.

With the change made to the Category Pre-Start Interval - lets go to the Category to see the change in action. Click on Categories to continue.

Select on the applicable Category where the Pre-Start Interval was modified. In this example it was the Trailers Category.

Select any Equipment under the selected Category to continue.

We can now see that for the Equipment under the Category where we have ticked the new option of 'No Prestarts but allow Faults' to On - that no Pre-start button is available - however the Raise Fault button is still present.

Now lets see how this option has effected the Pre-Start section on the Dashboard. Click on Dashboard to continue.

We can now see that originally we had a count of 8 within the Checklists to Create tag under the Pre-Starts section in the Dashboard. Now since we have configured the Trailers Category to no longer have a Pre-Start Interval - the 2 equipment under that Category now no longer require Pre-Starts to be completed and as such have been removed from any calculations for Pre-Starts in the Dashboard. This now leaves us with 6 Equipment that require Pre-Starts to be created based on their Pre-Start Interval configured.

This guide covered configuring the Pre-Start interval in Kynection, enabling the setup to allow Faults to be captured for Equipment without requiring Pre-Starts. By following the steps provided, you can tailor the settings to suit your specific needs effectively. Thanks for Watching.

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