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- OVERVIEW
-
- The Maintenance Reminder is used to create and customize service
- schedules for each vehicle and to log the services that have been
- completed. You can create services (maintenance operations) that
- are unique to each vehicle.
-
- The service interval time can be set for months or days (changed in
- the Set Defaults). This can not be changed for each vehicle so you
- will need to decide which method to use for all vehicles. There is
- also a mileage interval if the vehicle is being tracked by odometer
- or a hour interval if it is being tracked by hours.
-
- There are no costs associated with the Maintenance Reminder.
-
- The Maintentance Reminder (referred to as MR from now on) is split
- into the following three components:
-
- Global - This area contains the "master list" of maintenance
- operations that can be transferred (extracted) to each vehicle.
- It is intended to cut down on the amount of typing if you are
- creating schedules for several vehicles.
-
- Reminder - This area contains the maintenance operations for the
- selected vehicle. These are services that you want to routinely
- perform at specified intervals. You can create your reminder
- list by extracting all the Global operations and then deleting
- uneccessary ones and/or adding individual operations directly.
-
- If the MAINTENANCE REMINDER FUEL LOG OPTION (Set Defaults) is
- set to Y, then the Maintenance Reminder will automatically run
- whenever you enter the Fuel Log. If due or overdue maintenance
- items are found, then a message will display at the top of the
- screen telling you to run the Maintenance Reminder program.
-
- Services - This area is a log of all the maintenance operations
- that have been done on the selected vehicle. They are added
- from the Reminder screen.
-
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-
- GLOBAL
-
- Press G from the REMINDER screen to display or edit global mainten-
- ance operations. The operations are sorted by odometers (or hours).
-
- ADD
-
- Press the A key to add a record. Enter the operation, and the
- time and miles (hours) between services. Note that there are 2
- fields for the operation. You can use both areas or just the
- first one. There are also 2 areas for the description of the
- operation after it has been completed (--completed services--).
- The completed services description will be used when you are
- adding completed operations to the SERVICES. This description
- will usually be the past-tense of the operation description,
- for example:
-
- --maintenance operation-- = Change Oil
- --completed services-- = Changed Oil
-
- NOTE: You should include an unscheduled maintenance record in
- the REMINDER for each vehicle to use when adding services
- that unexpectedly come up (or are not planned for). Enter
- zeros for the interval months(days) and odometer(hours).
-
- EXTRACT
-
- Press the E key to copy all Global entries to the Reminder for
- the selected vehicle. Use this option only once for each ve-
- hicle or you will have duplicate entries. After extracting, you
- need to add the date and mileage (hours) for the last time this
- operation was done to the selected vehicle. (refer to REMINDER
- - CHANGE).
-
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-
- REMINDER
-
- Press Q from the GLOBAL MR screen or W from the SERVICES screen to
- run the Reminder program options. The reminder operations are sort-
- ed by odometers (or hours).
-
- ADD
-
- Press the A key to add a record. Enter the the time and miles
- (hours) between services, the operation description that will
- print on the reminder report, the date and mileage (hours) of
- when this operation was last done and a service description
- that will show in the SERVICES area and print on the services
- completed report.
-
- You should have 1 reminder operation with zero months and odom-
- eter to allow for unscheduled maintenance.
-
- You can set the reminder to check only by the service interval
- months (by setting the odometer to 0), to check only by mileage
- or hours (by setting the months to 0) or to check for both by
- entering values in both fields. Entering both a month and odom-
- eter is recommended.
-
- CHANGE
-
- Press the C key to change an existing record. All records that
- have been extracted (copied) from the Global area will need to
- have the last date serviced and the mileage (or hours) added.
-
- NEW SER
-
- Press the N key to add a completed service record. Move to the
- entries to be added and (press Enter first) enter the serviced
- or done date and odometer or hours. Press the Insert key when
- you are done. The service(s) will be added to the SERVICE log
- and the last serviced date and odometer on the reminder will be
- automatically updated.
-
- REPORTS
-
- The MR report will generate a maintenance reminder schedule
- that will tell you what and when services are due and which
- ones are overdue.
-
- NOTE: *** IN ORDER TO CREATE AN ACCURATE SCHEDULE, ***
- *** THE FUEL LOG MUST BE CURRENT (UP-TO-DATE). ***
-
- If the schedule is run with blank FROM and TO dates, then all
- reminders will be listed with their next due dates and mileage
- (or hours), otherwise a schedule will be created showing items
- that need to be done within the FROM and TO dates.
-
- Any overdue operations will also be listed. A maintenance op-
- eration is considered to be overdue if the last odometer (or
- hours) plus the service interval value is less than the last
- Fuel Log entry. A * will print between the date and odometer
- for overdue operations.
-
- The MR schedule is listed in due date order which means that
- items may look out of order if you are only entering a service
- interval odometer and not the months.
-
- (service interval)
- Reminder: months odometer
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- 0 0 use for adding unscheduled
- operations to SERVICES
-
- Rem. Report: 0 > 0 checks only by mileage(hours)
- > 0 0 checks only by dates
- > 0 > 0 checks by dates & for overdue
-
- Printing to a file will place this report into a file named
- REM.TXT which will be created in the Program Directory (VRS90).
- This option will allow you to import this report into a word
- processing or a spreadsheet program if those programs support
- ASCII files.
-
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-
- SERVICES
-
- Press W from the REMINDER screen to display, change, delete ser-
- vices or to run a report. Completed services are indexed (sorted)
- by the dates.
-
- REPORTS
-
- You can run a report showing completed maintenance services
- for any period of time. The default dates assume you want a
- report showing all services.
-
- Printing to a file will place this report into a file named
- SER.TXT which will be created in the Program Directory (VRS90).
- This option will allow you to import this report into a word
- processing or a spreadsheet program if those programs support
- ASCII files.
-
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-
- W (SER) - W (REM)
-
- Press W to switch (window) back and forth between the REMINDER and
- the SERVICES screens.
-
-
- CHANGE
-
- Use this option to make corrections or to add items that were not
- included when the record was added. Position to the field you want
- to change, press Enter and make the change.
-
-
- DELETE
-
- Use this to remove a record. Deleted records will not be included
- in reports. Deleted records are 'hidden' but remain in the file
- until it is reindexed.
-
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