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One concern from stakeholders that was raised as early as the Beta release was the functionality in the Client Tool which prevented users from reusing component IDs for a given monitoring system in a monitoring plan.

Several stakeholders wanted to know how they should report fuel flowmeters which were rotated in and out of service. Under the initial functionality, each time a flowmeter was put in to service, a unique component ID needed to be assigned in order to have a unique monitoring system-component data record when the flowmeter was associated with the system. When the flowmeter was taken out of service, an end date was added to the monitoring system-component record. However, the next time the flowmeter was put back in service, a brand new component ID was assigned and a new monitoring system-component record was added.

The problem with this method of reporting is that it requires new component IDs to be assigned to equipment which already had a component ID.

The reporting instructions were modified to correct this problem. These changes are found in the Addendum to the monitoring plan instructions which were released on July 2, 2008.

With the Q2 production version and the CTP 2 version, the functionality in the Client Tool has changed to match the reporting instructions. Now, new component IDs do not need to be added for an existing component. Instead, the monitoring system-component records are used to record the data. Once a component has been added, it can be associated with the monitoring system as often as necessary in order to reflect the time periods in which the component was in service.

Practically speaking, users should follow these steps:

1. Add a fuel flowmeter component to the monitoring plan.
2. Associate that fuel flowmeter component with the monitoring system including the begin date and begin hour when the fuel flowmeter began to be part of the monitoring system.
3. When the fuel flowmeter is taken out of service, add an end date and end hour to the monitoring system-component record to reflect when the fuel flowmeter was no longer an active part of the monitoring system.
4. When the fuel flowmeter is rotated back into service, add a new monitoring system-component record using the existing component ID. The record should include the begin date and begin hour of when the fuel flowmeter began to once again be an active part of the monitoring system.

Here is an example of how this would look in the monitoring system component data in the Client Tool. (Click on the image to see a larger version.) Notice, how component IDs 180 and 200 which are oil fuel flowmeters are associated with the monitoring system more than once as the flowmeters were rotated in and out of service.

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