Available On: Business Plus
Downtime ⏳ is any period when equipment isn't operational or the production process is paused. For businesses, understanding and effectively managing downtime is crucial to ensuring smooth operations and reducing productivity losses 📉. These features are available with the Business Plus Plan. Learn in this article how to set downtime and customize downtime statuses to gain better insights into your operations.
How to Change the Asset Status
Go to your Assets/Units/Equipment Section
Click on the desired Asset
Change Status
If Asset is Not Operational, it will be highlighted in Red on the list
How to Add Downtime
This is to manually add a downtime event.
Click on the Desired Asset to open the asset overview
Under Reliability on the right side, click on Add Downtime
Enter in the Duration, Status, and Time this downtime started
Select Add Downtime to save the changes
How to Create Custom Asset Statuses
Navigate to the Settings Section
Select The Assets Module
Select the Asset Status Tab
Select Add
Enter in the Status Name
Select Confirm
Now that you’ve added the custom categories for Asset status, you can use them when an asset is offline!
How to View your Downtime Metrics
Select the Desired Asset to open the asset overview
Under Reliability on the right side, you'll see options for:
Uptime Percentage
Downtime Percentage
Click on the View Downtime Log
You can filter your date range by when the downtime was added (the default range is the last 30 days)
Total Downtime
The date and time this asset was not operational (and how long)
You can even export your downtime data onto a CSV by clicking on the Export button!
💡For more in depth reporting on your Downtime Metrics check out UpKeep Analytics