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Auto Manage Tasks

Before You Begin

Thickness Monitoring Tasks will be created automatically when you create Corrosion Analysis Settings for an asset or TML Group, or a record that stores equipment or component data for a Corrosion Analysis. GE Digital APM provides an option that allows Thickness Monitoring Tasks to be updated automatically when you make changes to a Thickness Measurement Location (TML) record.

The Auto Manage Tasks setting is disabled by default. If the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) license is active, you should not change the default setting because you will use the Task records generated from RBI, rather than TM, to determine your inspection intervals. If the Risk Based Inspection license is not active, you should enable the Auto Manage Tasks setting.

Note: TM will create and update Thickness Monitoring Tasks automatically only if the Component ID setting is defined for family to which the TML is directly linked. If this setting is not defined, an error message will appear when TM attempts to create the Thickness Monitoring Task.

Steps

1. Access the Global Preferences workspace.

2. In the upper-right corner of the workspace, select .

   The boxes and check boxes in the Global Preferences workspace are enabled. is replaced with .

3. In the Tasks Preferences section, select the Auto Manage Tasks? check box.

4. In the upper-right corner of the workspace, select .

   The setting is saved, along with any other changes you have made to the preferences in the Global Preferences workspace.

Results

When the Auto Manage Tasks setting is enabled, the following fields in Thickness Monitoring Task records will be updated when you make changes to a TML. The following list is not comprehensive.

• Last Date: The value in the Last Date field is populated with the most recent measurement date that is associated with the first TML referenced in the NID TMLs field in the associated Asset Corrosion Analysis record.

  For example, if the NID TMLs field contained the Entity Keys of the following TMLs in the following order, the most recent measurement date (the value in the Measurement Taken Date field in the linked Thickness Measurement records) associated with TML 03 would be used to populate the Last Date field in the Thickness Monitoring Task record:

  • TML 03

  • TML 14

  • TML 01

• Desired Interval: The value in the Desired Interval field is populated with the difference, in days, between the values in the Next Date and Last Date fields in the Thickness Monitoring Task record.

  For example, if the value in the Next Date field is 9/5/2017 and the value in the Last Date field is 3/6/2015, the Desired Interval field would be populated with the value 914.

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