System maintenance functions

Introduction

Some strategies support the capacity to view system information for the components in a chromatography unit. The system information can be used to issue maintenance warnings for the components.

This section describes the system maintenance functions.

How to open the Maintenance manager

The system maintenance functions are controlled in the Maintenance manager dialog box in the System Control module.

  • Select System:Maintenance.

Result: The Maintenance manager dialog box opens with the Info tab selected. The connected chromatography system is scanned for its components. After a while the components are displayed.

The illustration below shows the Maintenance manager dialog box with the Info tab selected and general information about the pump displayed:

How to display component information

Click a component in the list to display the component information.

You can choose two different views:

  • General, e.g. serial number, version number etc.

  • Specific, e.g. how many hours a pump has been run etc.

How to set up a maintenance warning

The table below describes how to set up a maintenance warning.

Step

Action

1

Click the Warning tab.

2

Select a component.

  • Choose Warning:New.

or

  • Right-click the component and select the New option on the shortcut menu.

3

  • Type the appropriate value in the Periodicity field.

  • Type a warning text in the Pop up text box.

  • Type a name for the warning type in the Name text box.

  • Click the Save button.

4

Repeat steps 2 and 3 to set up more warnings.

5

Click the Close button.

How to view the warning parameters and counters

The component that has been set up for a maintenance warning is marked by an icon and the name of the warning.

  • Select the warning to display the parameters.

Counters show the remaining time or number of operations before the next maintenance warning. See the illustration below:

How to reset the counters

The table below describes how to reset the maintenance warning counters.

Step

Action

1

  • Select System:Maintenance in the System Control module to open the Maintenance manager dialog box.

  • Click the Warning tab.

2

  • Select the warning you want to reset on the component list.

  • Choose Warning:Edit.

or

  • Right-click and select Edit on the shortcut menu.

Result: The Maintenance manager dialog box changes into edit mode and the text boxes are activated.

3

  • Type new text if necessary.

  • Click the Reset button.

Result: The Reset parameters dialog box opens.

4

  • Click one or both of the Reset buttons to reset the counters.

  • Click OK.

How to acknowledge a warning

Once a specific Periodicity parameter has been reached, a warning message will be displayed. The table below describes how to acknowledge the warning.

Step

Action

1

The Warning dialog box opens.

2

  • Click the Acknowledge button if you have corrected the problem.

  • Click the Ignore button if you haven’t corrected the problem.

Note: You will be reminded later about the unsolved problem if you click the Ignore button.

2005-06-15