====Outage Reporting Module====

The **Outage Reporting** [[analytic_modules|module]] is part of the [[start|ARDI Visual Analytics]] system, and is used to determine how a particular machine, subsystem or section has been utilised and why outages might have happened..

It's very similar in design to the [[module_OEE|OEE module]]. However, the outage reporting module doesn't provide an OEE figure, but it instead offers the ability to do some simple analysis of **why** your outage happened.

===Starting Out===

When you first create a new OEE analytic, you'll see the graph below...

{{oee_start.png}}

This can look **very daunting**, but if for most users you only need to be concerned with the nodes on the far-left of the graph.

{{oee_trinity.png}}

These are the key inputs into the logic for OEE - is your asset **Available**, is it **Running** and is it **Required**.

The rest of the logic on the graph breaks those three inputs down in to several distinct machine states...

   * Stopped
   * Running
   * Idle
   * Blocking

Where **idle** indicates a machine that is running even though it's not required (this is often inefficient, but not always wrong), and where **blocking** indicates that the machine is needed, but is either unavailable or has failed to run.

This logic and the categories themselves can be edited if needed. But in many cases, you can ignore everything other than those three nodes to the left.

===Module-Specific Nodes===

[[outage_classify|Classification]] \\

===Examples===

[[example_outage_basic|Simple Production-Line Outage Report]]