In-Service Management Tool

Geographic Display

Select Geographic Display from the Main Menu.

Click the Go Report button.

The Geographic Display allows the user to Select a Facility from a Geographic Map. The following kinds of reports can be generated:

• Outage Reports
• Performance Analysis
• Outage Time Histogram
• Time Between Outages Histogram

Set the report parameters.

1. This Data Selection Screen is specifically designed so the user can select a location from the Geographic Display.
   
   There are optional parameters that will refine the Geographic Display Map to display only those locations that match the selected parameters. Each level of refinement to the parameters further refines the display of locations on the map. It is most efficient to wait until you have set all your parameters before you activate the refined Geographic Display.
   
   To activate a refined display you will need to Zoom In at least one time on the map. Click in an area on the map near where you think the facility you want may be to activate the zoom function. 
   
   
1. OPTIONAL PARAMETER: Select a Facility. It will refine the Geographic Display map so that it will only display that type of facility.
   
   
1. Select the Facility Type (the default is All) from the drop down list .
   
   
2. Select the Facility Code (the default is All). To refine the report with specific Facility Code(s):
   
   
1. Click the 3-dots Button to open a pop up menu window.
   
   
2. Select the specific Facility Code(s) from the pop up menu window. Hold down the Ctrl Key for multiple selections.
   
   
3. You will only see the Facility Code(s) listed in the pop up menu window when you have already selected a Facility Type.  
   
   
2. OPTIONAL PARAMETER: Select a Site.
   
   
1. Selecting a Site
   
   
1. When you Select Site you can further refine the report by Selecting one or more of the following parameters:
1. Region
2. Location ID
3. Remote ID (applies to Airport Facilities)
4. Control ID (applies to Airport Facilities)
   
   
2. Select the Region first. The pop up window menu for the Location ID will then only list locations appropriate to the selected Region. The Remote ID and Control ID menu lists will reflect the Airport Facilities that have been selected.
   
   
3. The default value for each is ALL. To Select the value for each parameter Click the 3-dots Button by the blank widow for each.
1. A pop up window menu will open.
2. Click on the desired value to Select it.
3. Click the OK button to Enter it. 
   
   
2. The Location Lookup link pops up a window from which you can search for the Location ID and its Region by typing in the name of the city or the city and state if you don't know or remember them.
   
   
1. The search will run if you only enter a City Name. The result will list all cities with the specified name in grouped by state.
   
   
2. The search will also run if you enter: City Name, State. Use the 2 letter abbreviation for the state and make sure to leave a space between the comma and the state. Example: Ontario, CA
   
   
3. The search response will produce a table showing
1. Region
2. Location ID
3. Name of City and State
   
   
4. Use this information to select the appropriate values from the corresponding pop up window menus.
   

4. PRIMARY PARAMETER: Select a location on the Geographic Display map.
   
   
1. At the top of the Map frame is a row of interface mode buttons. The interface mode defaults to Zoom In. Check to make sure the Zoom In mode is selected before you start clicking to select a location.
   
   
2. Click on the location you want on the map. Each time you Click the map image will refresh.
   
   
3. If you have chosen any of the Optional Parameters described above, Click on the map to display the modified set of locations.
   
   
4. You may need to Click to Zoom In as many as 5 times before the display is sufficiently magnified for you to be able to clearly see and select the specific location you want.
   
   
5. When you believe that you can clearly see the location you want, change to the Identify mode by Clicking on the Identify button. Then Click on the location. Running Identify completes the selection of the location for the report.
   
   
1. The image will refresh and display a label box with the location's name pointing to the location symbol on the map.
   
   
2. In the area below the map image a table chart will display information about that location. If you run Identify and generate a table chart, the chart will stay there, indicating that the charted location is still the active selected location, until you either Return to Full Extent or until you run Identify on another location.
   
   
6. There are 4 interface modes for working with the Geographic Display Map. 
   
   
1. The default mode for working with the map is Zoom In.
   
   
1. Every time you click on the Map to Zoom In the image will magnify centered at the spot on the map where you clicked.
   
   
2. You may need to Zoom In several times before you can accurately select an location.
   
   
3. You need to Zoom In about 5 levels to be able to see location name labels displayed next to the location symbols.
   
   
2. Select the Zoom Out mode if you need to see a larger area of the map.
   
   
1. Every time you click on the map the image will refresh to display a larger map area with the image centered at the spot on the map where you clicked.
   
   
2. Click on the Return to Full Extent text link at the bottom of the image frame to zoom the view back out to the full map image.
   
   
3. Select the Pan mode if you need to move the area of the map currently displayed to another position on the map. Every time you click on the map the image will refresh, maintaining the previous magnification, with the displayed area of the map centered at the spot on the map where you clicked.
   
   
4. The Identify mode completes the selection of the location for the report. See details above.
   
   

2. Outage Causes Parameters have 4 options:
   
   
   1. All - Check the Button to Select
      
      
   2. Scheduled - Check the Button to Select
      
      
   3. Unscheduled - Check the Button to Select
      
      
   4. Select Specific Causes from Pop Up
      
      
      1. Click the 3-dots Button to open a pop up window and view the Outage Cause list.
         
         
      2. Select the specific outage cause(s) from the list and Click the OK button to enter.
         
         
      3. Hold down the Cntrl Key to Select multiple outage causes from the list. 
         
         
3. Date Range Parameters are Start Date to End Date. The dates cannot be left blank. The ISMT application will run a validation on the dates that you type in and warn you if the dates do not meet accepted parameters.
   
   
   1. The default date range covers the most commonly used years spanned by the database. The NAPRS Outage Database has data back to 1/1/1984.
      
      
   2. Type in the boxes to change the Date Range.
      
      
      1. The Start Date must be earlier than the End Date.
         
         
      2. The End Date must be before the current date.  
         
         

4. To Select a Report to generate Click the button next to the Report name. 
   
   
   1. Outage Reports can be Summarized by selecting options from 2 pop down lists.
      1. The first pop down list defaults to None with no options available in the second pop down list.
      
      
      
      1. The generated report will display a 9 column list.
      1. Facility Code
      2. Region
      3. Ident
      4. Remote
      5. Control
      6. Cause Code
      7. Outage Start
      8. Outage End
      9. Outage Time
         
         
      2. Click the Go link at the end of a list item line to view the NOCC data on the same incident. It is possible that there is no matching data in the NOCC Database and as a result there will be no data displayed in the generated NOCC report.
         
         
      3. Use the browser Back button to return to the report list.
         
         
      2. The first Summarized by drop down list has the following options:
      1. Facility
      2. Region
      3. Year
         
         
      3. The second Summarized by drop down list varies depending on the option selected in the first drop down list.
         
      1. Facility = None, Region, Cause or Year
      2. Region = None, Facility, Cause or Year
      3. Year = None, Facility, Region or Cause
         
         
      4. The when you have 1 or more Summarized by selected the Report Screen will show:
         
         
      1. 2 pie charts. The first chart depicts the Number of Outages. The second chart depicts the Sum of Outage Time.
         
         
      2. The segments of the pie charts are interactive. When you click on one of the segments a new report will be generated with pie charts reflecting the details of the selected segment. Some options will produce a pie chart that appears to be one solid color segment but it is still interactive and detailed will be generated if you click on it.
         
         
      3. The table below the pie charts shows all the data depicted in the pie charts and also contains interactive links.
         
         
      4. The table under the detail pie chart will also have an interactive link at the bottom of its list but it is a redundant link and will simply regenerate the same report.
         
         
   2. Performance Analysis encompasses 4 different type of reports. The first option selection drop down list is Summarize by and selecting options from it sets how the data is to be summarized. The second option selection drop down list is Show and selecting options from it chooses the type of report to generate.
      
      
   1. The Summarized by list has the following options:
   1. Facility
   2. Region
   3. Cause
   4. Year
      
      
   2. The Show list has the following options:
      
   1. All Parameters
      
   2. MTBO (with Graph)
   3. MTTR (with Graph)
   4. Down Time (with Graph)
      
      
   3. The default All Parameters produces an 11 columned list.
      
      
   1. Column 1 = Year and Column 2 = CauseCode
      
      
   2. Columns 3, 4, and 5 display the MTBO in numbers of hours.
      
      
   3. Columns 6, 7, and 8 display the MTTR in numbers of hours.
      
      
   4. Column 9 = percentage of Availability
      
      
   5. Column 10 = Average Down Time in Hours per Year
      
      
   6. Column 11 = the Number of Outages in that year.
      
      
   7. The default Confidence Level is 85%. To modify the Confidence Level and generate a new report use the drop down list found in the top right area of the Report Screen to select a different percentage. As soon as you have made the selection a new report will automatically generate showing a change in the MTBO and MTTR confidence intervals.
      
      
   8. The default report display is by Year. Use the pop down list located in the upper left area of the Report Screen just above the Title box to Select a Quarterly or a Monthly display of the data. Selecting a different time increment from the drop down list will automatically generate a new Report Screen reflecting the new increment. Increasing the increment details increases the length of time it takes to generate the report.
      
      
   4. MTBO (with graph)
      
      
   1. The graph will show MTBO time trend based on the Summarized by and/or Show options that you have specified.
      
      
   2. Below the graph is a table showing the data depicted in the graph.
      
      
   3. The default report display is by Year. Use the pop down list located in the upper left area of the Report Screen just above the Title box to Select a Quarterly or a Monthly display of the data. Selecting a more detailed time increment from the drop down list will automatically cause a new report to generate. Increasing the increment details increases the length of time it takes to generate the report.
      
      
   4. To save report generation time the report defaults to the No Drill Down option on the drop down list located in the center top area of the screen. Select a Drill Down option to be able to view details for selected parameter options.
      
      
   1. Enable Outage Drill Down: activates the graph points as interactive links to outages relating to that data point. Select a point and the report will regenerate with detailed outage information.
      
      
   2. Enable Bounds Drill Down: regenerates the report and columned list showing the Time Trend of MTBO Confidence Intervals. Click on any item in a list row to generate a graph and a table showing the data depicted in the graph that details information relating to the clicked list row.
      
      
   5. MTTR (with graph)
      
      
   1. The graph will show MTTR time trend based on the Summarized by and/or Show options that you have specified.
      
      
   2. Below the graph is a table showing the data depicted in the graph.
      
      
   3. The default report display is by Year. Use the pop down list located in the upper left area of the Report Screen just above the Title box to Select a Quarterly or a Monthly display of the data. Selecting a more detailed time increment from the drop down list will automatically cause a new report to generate. Increasing the increment details increases the length of time it takes to generate the report.
      
      
   4. To save report generation time the report defaults to the No Drill Down option on the drop down list located in the center top area of the screen. Select a Drill Down option to be able to view details for selected parameter options.
      
      
   1. Enable Outage Drill Down: activates the graph points as interactive links to outages relating to that data point. Select a point and the report will regenerate with detailed outage information.
      
      
   2. Enable Bounds Drill Down: regenerates the report and columned list showing the Time Trend of MTTR Confidence Intervals. Click on any item in a list row to generate a graph and a table showing the data depicted in the graph that details information relating to the clicked list row.
      
      
   6. Downtime (with graph)
      
      
   1. The graph shows Downtime based on the Summarized by and/or Show options that you have specified.
      
      
   2. Below the graph is a table showing the data depicted in the graph.
      
      
   3. The default report display is by Year. Use the pop down list located in the upper left area of the Report Screen just above the Title box to Select a Quarterly or a Monthly display of the data. Selecting a more detailed time increment from the drop down list will automatically cause a new report to generate. Increasing the increment details increases the length of time it takes to generate the report.
      
      
   4. To save report generation time the report defaults to the No Drill Down option on the drop down list located in the center top area of the screen. Selecting Enable Outage Drill Down activates the graph points as interactive links to outages relating to that data point. Select a point and a 9 columned report will regenerate with details relating to the selected point. 
      
      
   3. Outage Time Histogram is concerned with the amount of time an outage lasted. The report can be set to the number of outage intervals within a specified duration of hours time span. The default for both is 10. Type the desired numbers in to the boxes to change to your specification.
      
      
   1. The graph shows the histogram of outage time based on the parameters that you have specified.
      
      
   2. Below the Title box is a row of check boxes for fitting point data for the different histograms:
   1. Exponential
   2. Gamma
   3. Weibull
   4. Normal
   5. Lognormal

   Check one or more or all of the boxes and Click the Refresh button to generate the results. When the Report Screen refreshes point fitting data for each box checked will display just below the box. A new time trend histogram will be added reflecting each fitting point data box you checked.

   3. Below the histogram is a table that lists the data depicted in the histograms.
      
      
   4. Time Between Outages Histogram is concerned with the time span between outages. The report can be set to the number of intervals within a specified number of hours time span. The default for intervals is 10 and for within a time span is maximum 1000 hours. Type the desired numbers in to the boxes to change to your specification.
      
      
   1. The graph shows the histogram of time between outages based on the parameters that you have specified.
      
      
   2. Below the Title box is a row of check boxes for fitting point data for the different histograms:
   1. Exponential
   2. Gamma
   3. Weibull
   4. Normal
   5. Lognormal

   Check one or more or all of the boxes and Click the Refresh button to generate the results. When the Report Screen refreshes point fitting data for each box checked will display just below the box. A new time trend histogram will be added reflecting each fitting point data box you checked.

   3. Below the histogram is a table that lists the data depicted in the histograms.
      
      
   5. Click the Show Report button to generate the report. It is likely that generating the report will seem to take a long time. You will be able to see the browser logo animation running in the up right corner of you browser frame as an indication that the application is busy generating the report. There is a lot of data to process and a lot of processing that is run. Patience is needed.
      
      
   6. Click the Export button to export the report data to Excel.
      
      
   7. User the browser Print button to Print a Report from a Report Screen.
      
      
   8. Remember to type a Title into the Title Box in the top area of the screen if you are going to Save the report for later retrieval.