How To - Circulating Components

Circulating Components

In TM Master v2 the term “Circulating Components” is used for “Spare” components which are on a regular basis are in use and is dismounted and changed when they need maintenance.

A typical example of a circulating component is a Cylinder Cover. To do maintenance on a cylinder cover it is dismounted from the engine and replaced by a spare cylinder cover. Once the cylinder cover is mounted to the engine it should start receiving running hours from the engine, and the dismounted cylinder cover should stop receiving running hours. This is what the “circulating component” functions enable you to do.

Why do we need circulating components?

A circulating component, as for example a cylinder cover, requires maintenance, and usually the maintenance for these components are hour based. So let’s say that you overhaul your cylinder covers after 15000 hours of use. A mounted cylinder cover will receive running hours from the engine it is mounted on, once it reaches 15000 hours the overhaul job becomes due and you change the cylinder cover with a spare one (dismounted one). The spare cylinder cover is mounted and it will start receiving hours from the engine.

How to create a circulating component?

In order for you to mount and dismount a component in TM Master V2, you must first configure the component to be a circulating component. This is how it is done.

• Click [Inventory] -> [Components]
• Double click the component you want to configure to be circulating.
• The Component properties will appear.
• Tick the check box “circulating” on the lower right side on the “general” tab 
• Save your changes, the component is now configured to be a circulating component.

A component will by default be set as “Mounted” when the check box “Circulating” is ticked.

What is the difference between a circulating component and a normal component?
A “Circulating component” has all the functions a regular component has, but it also has some additional ones.

Once a component has been configured to be circulating two additional buttons will appear in the top menu of the component form.

Mount:

and Dismount:

One of the buttons will always be inactive, depending on if the component is mounted or not.

Two additional fields will appear on the component general tab, just below the “Circulating”, check box. These are “Mount/dismount date” and “Mount position”.

In the component structure circulating components are marked by the same symbols, indicating if it is “mounted” or “dismounted”

Component structure view with mounted and dismounted components.

All circulating components will be listed under the “circulating components” list, found on [Inventory] à [Components] à”Circulating Components” tab. On this tab all mounted circulating components are listed on the left and the dismounted on the right. Selecting a component from one of the list will display the mount/dismount history of the selected component in the grid at the bottom.

How to dismount a component?

When dismounting a component in TM Master V2, you are disconnecting the component from receiving running hours from its parent component. For more information on how a component receives running hours please see the chapter on “Running hours”.

There are two starting positions for dismounting/mounting components (a or b)

• a) Click [Inventory] ->[Components] -> Double click the component you wish to dismount.
• b) Click [Inventory] ->[Components] -> “Circulating Components” tab and select the mounted component you wish to dismount in the list on the left hand side.
• Click the
  • [Dismount] button in the top menu. The following dialog will appear:The dismount component form tells you what component you are about to dismount,  and from which component you are dismounting it from.
• You can register the components condition after dismount by ticking the “Change condition” check box and selecting a condition description.
• Also you can enter additional comments in the “Comment” field
• Click [OK]

The component has now been dismounted, and will no longer receive running hours from its parent component.

How to mount a component?

When mounting a component the component is attached to a parent component, and will start receiving any running hours the parent receives.

There are two starting positions for dismounting/mounting components (a or b)

• a) Click [Inventory] -> [Components] -> Double click the component you wish to dismount.
  b) Click [Inventory] -> [Components] -> “Circulating Components” tab and select the dismounted component you wish to mount in the list on the right hand side.
• Click the[Mount] button in the top menu
• The following dialog will appear:
  
  The Mount form tells you what component you are about to mount
  • Select the component you wish to mount the circulating component on. Or in other words select the parent component the circulating component should receive its running hours from.
  • You can change the circulating components code if required, by ticking the “change code” check box and then edit the existing code.
  • You can also specify the mount position, by typing it into the “Mount position:” field.
    (i.e. Mount position for a cylinder cover, can be what cylinder it is mounted on)
  • If any comments to the mount, enter them in the comment field.
  • Click [OK]

• The component has now been mounted and will start receiving running hours from its parent component.