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	Event Log Data Folio

Systems Setup

The Systems Setup window is available only if you have selected the Use System column check box on the Other page of the folio’s control panel. This window allows you to enter the period you started and stopped collecting the event log data for each unique system identified in the data sheet. The information you provide is used by the software to obtain the time to first occurrence of the failure (F) and general (E) events of every unique system.

Open the System Setup window by clicking the icon on the Main page of the control panel.

The following figure shows an example of a setup for two machines, M-1 and M-2.

The System is New column indicates that the system has never been used before and that the start date you entered is also the same calendar date that the system started operating. If the system is new, then the times to first occurrence of every event are considered to be complete data (failures) because the exact time-to-event is known. If the system is not new, then the times to first occurrence of every event are considered to be right censored data because the amount of time that the system operated before the observation period began is not known.

Note that the information you provide in the Systems Setup window will be automatically copied to the System area on the Main page of the control panel and vice versa.