General Reference

Rounds Designer leverages the fundamental GE Digital APM entity and relationship family infrastructure for storing data in the GE Digital APM database. The data that is stored in the GE Digital APM database can be transferred to a mobile device, where you can record readings and create recommendations. Those readings and recommendations can then be transferred to the GE Digital APM database, where they will be converted into records.

When you are working with records in Rounds Designer, it is helpful to visualize the data model illustration.

In the following illustration:

• The shaded boxes represent entity families.
• The arrows represent relationship families. You can determine the direction of each relationship from the direction of the arrow head.
• Black arrows and boxes represent entity families, relationship families, and associated relationship definitions that are configured in the baseline database and do not require customizing for baseline functionality to work.

There are two URL routes associated with Rounds: rounds and rounds-inspection. The following tables describe the various paths that build on those routes, and the elements that you can specify for each.

Rounds Designer

Rounds Data Collection

Rounds leverages the fundamental GE Digital APM entity and relationship family infrastructure for storing data in the GE Digital APM database. The data that is stored in the GE Digital APM database can be transferred to a mobile device, where you can record readings and create recommendations. Those readings and recommendations can then be transferred to the GE Digital APM database, where they will be converted into records.

When you are working with records in Rounds, it is helpful to visualize the data model illustration.

In the following illustration:

• The gray boxes represent entity families.
• The arrows represent relationship families. You can determine the direction of each relationship from the direction of the arrow head.

• Black arrows and boxes represent entity families, relationship families, and associated relationship definitions that are configured in the baseline database and do not require customizing for baseline functionality to work.

• The dashed line represents a foreign key.

In addition to the data model above, the Lubricant, Lubrication Manufacturer, Lubrication Component, and Lubrication Method records are used to generate the lists in the Lubrication Requirement and Lubrication Requirement Template datasheets. In the following illustration:

• The shaded boxes represent entity families.
• The dashed lines represent the foreign keys used by the Lubrication Requirement.

The following System Code Tables are used by Rounds:

A Route is a series of Checkpoints that a single user should execute in a specific order. You can use Rounds Designer features to manage the Routes that will be transferred to a mobile device, where the person responsible for that Route will record a reading value and other relevant information (that is, Action Taken, Comments, Recommendations) for each Checkpoint that is defined for the Route.

Details

A Route consists of the following records and links:

• One Route
• Multiple Checkpoints that are linked to the Route
• Checkpoint Tasks that are linked to the Checkpoints
• Equipment or Functional Locations to which each Checkpoint is linked
• Checkpoint Conditions that are linked to the Checkpoints as successors
• Multiple Checkpoints that are linked to the Checkpoint Conditions as successors
• Reference Document records that are linked to Checkpoint records as successors

When Routes are completed, Route History, readings, and recommendations are added to the GE Digital APM database and will be displayed on the page for that Route.

With the exception of Checkpoint Tasks and Route History, all records that make up a Route will appear in the left pane on the page for that Route, where the Route is shown as the root record. You can use the left pane to create and manage your Routes. The following image shows an example of the left pane:

Checkpoint Tasks and Route History appear on the Routes datasheet.

Each Checkpoint that is linked directly to the Route will be linked to one Checkpoint Task that stores the schedule on which that Checkpoint should be addressed. You can work with Checkpoint Tasks by selecting the Schedule tab on the datasheet when a Checkpoint linked directly to the Route is selected.

You can view the Route History records that are linked to a Route by selecting the Route History tab on the datasheet, when a Route is selected. You can also view readings, reference documents, and recommendations in Route Manager.

The following image shows the left pane as it appears when you access the page for a Route:

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The pane contains the following items:

• The Route pane will contain only one Route node, which will always appear at the top of the pane. The value that appears for the Route node is the value stored in the Route ID field in the corresponding Route record. Consider the following image, where the Route node is selected in the pane, and the content of the corresponding Route record appears in the workspace.

Using the datasheet, you can modify the content of the Route record as desired, and then save the record using the button in the upper-right corner of the datasheet. If you navigate away from the Route node without saving the changes to the Route record, a message will appear, asking if you want to save the changes.

• : Allows you to add a new or a existing Checkpoint, or to add Checkpoints created from Templates and Template Groups.

• : Allows you to search the Asset Group, Checkpoint, and Checkpoint Condition nodes that appear in the pane, as shown in the following image:

  
  
  

• : Allows you to view a menu that includes the following options:
  • Expand All
  • Collapse All
  • Reset Checkpoint Next Dates
  • Reset Checkpoint Schedules
  Additionally, if a Checkpoint or condition is selected, the menu includes an option to remove or delete it.
• Multiple subnodes representing Checkpoint Conditions and successor Checkpoints can be displayed by selecting in the parent node, as shown in the following image:
  
  
  

The ML Template Groups section can be accessed on the RD Overview page.

In the ML Template Groups section, you can view a list of all Template Groups that exist in the database. You can use this section to access, create new, and delete Template Groups.

The ML Template Groups section contains the following items:

• : Allows you to create a new ML Template Group.

• : Allows you to search the ML Template Groups that exist in the database.

• : Allows you to delete a specific ML Template Group.

When a Template Group is accessed, the left pane displays nodes that represent the following records that make up an ML Template Group:

• Template Group
• Checkpoint Conditions
• Measurement Location Templates

The following image shows a Template Group, Machine Inspection, with the following contents:

• Two Measurement Location Templates:
  • Check offline status
  • Vent Check
• One Checkpoint Condition:
  • If Vent Check is Obstructed then:

The order in which the Checkpoint Templates appear in this pane should match the order in which you want the Measurement Location nodes to appear in the left pane of the Route's page after you apply the Template Group to the Route. You can change the sequence of a Measurement Location Template using the drag-and-drop method in the left pane of the Template Group's page.

If a Measurement Location Template or a Checkpoint Condition is associated with one or more successor records, an arrow will appear to the right of that Measurement Location Template or Checkpoint Condition node. The direction of the arrow indicates whether the successor nodes are displayed or hidden.

• : Indicates that the successor nodes are hidden. You can select this arrow to display the successor nodes.
• : Indicates that the successor nodes are currently displayed. You can select this arrow to hide the successor nodes.

The left pane on the page for a Template Group contains only one Template Group node, which will always appear at the top of the pane. The value that appears in the Template Group node is the value stored in the ID field in the corresponding Template Group record.

Site filtering in Rounds is achieved by specifying a value in the Site Reference Key for a record. Users must have privileges for the relevant site to access records for the specified site. Users can be assigned to one or many sites. They will be able to view global data, and the data for each of the sites to which they are assigned.

Site filtering behavior is applied to all areas where data is handled in Rounds including data loaders, asset hierarchy, global search, and queries throughout Rounds Designer and Rounds Data Collection modules.

In Rounds, site filtering affects the following records:

• Allowable Values records are not enabled for site filtering. Any user who has the required security and license permissions can access, and modify the allowable values records. However, allowable values records interact with other records that are enabled for site filtering. To facilitate use of different sets of allowable values on different sites, the Rounds Administrator must create separate ML Templates that use the correct values for each site.
• If a Measurement Location or Lubrication Requirement record is linked to an asset, the record will inherit the site from the Equipment and Functional Location to which it is linked. If a Measurement Location or Lubrication Requirement is not linked to an asset, the record will inherit the site from its parent record (that is, Route or condition). This takes priority over inheritance of the user's default site, except in the case where the parent record is a Global record.
• Readings for a Measurement Location or Lubrication Requirement will inherit the site from the Measurement Location or Lubrication Requirement.
• Template Group records are enabled for site filtering. When a Template Group record has a site specified, you can only add ML Templates that belong to the same site, or are global records. For a global Template Group record, you can add ML Templates from any of the sites.
  Note: When a global Template Group is applied to an asset, any ML Templates within the Template Group that are assigned to a specific site that is different to the site of the Equipment or Functional Location will not be applied.
• Route records are enabled for site filtering.
  • When a Route has a site specified, you can only add Measurement Location or Lubrication Requirement records for that site.
  • If no site is specified for a Route, you can add Measurement Location or Lubrication Requirement records for any site to the Route.
  Important: Although you can assign a Route to any user, the Route will only be accessible in Rounds Data Collection to users who have access to the site for the Route.
• Lubricant, Lubrication Component, Lubrication Method, and Lubricant Manufacturer records are enabled for site filtering.
  • If a Lubricant is assigned to a specific site, the records to which it can be linked are limited as follows:
    • Lubricant Manufacturer records that are assigned to the same site or have no site (that is, global records).
    • Lubrication Method records that are assigned to the same site.
    • Lubricant Requirement or Lubricant Requirement Template records that are assigned to the same site.
  • If a Lubrication Component is assigned to a specific site, it can only be used in Lubricant Requirement or Lubricant Requirement Template records that are assigned to the same site.
  • If you want to use site filtering to limit the available Lubricant records to only locally approved lubricants, note that you may need to create duplicate records for the same lubricant if you want it to be available for more than one site (this is because a given record can belong to only one site).
  • We recommend, in general, that you create Lubricant Manufacturer, Lubrication Method, and Lubrication Component records with no site (that is, as global records) rather than duplicating them across sites.