Here are some frequently asked questions regarding Operational Reliability. There is a good chance that the answer to your question can be found here.

 

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The calculations are done with the data that each site enters once a month, and they produce the OR measures for that site. A list of the OR measures and how they are calculated is available on the support page.
 

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Desirable values for the OR Measures change depending on what measure is being evaluated. For instance, the availability factor and running availability are desired to be as close to 100% as possible, whereas it is desirable to have the forced outage rate and scheduled outage factor as low as possible. In the same way it advantageous to have the mean time between forced outages high and the mean down time low.
 

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Each month, both operating data and outage data must be entered for your facility. On the data entry page of the website there are options to enter new data under the sections "Site Operating Data" and "Site Outage Data". Operating data must be entered for an entire month only once, however outage data must be entered separately for every outage that occurs at your facility.
 

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Operating data should be entered at the beginning of each month for the entire previous month, each month requires only one entry. Outage data may be entered at one time for a whole month, or multiple times as each outage occurs.
 

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Under the operating data option, you will enter the month and year of operation, and the number of attempted and successful starts for all units at your facility. Note: you may not enter data for only one of multiple units, all units must be entered at the same time.
 

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Under the outage data option, you will need to choose the type of outage from a menu and then enter the start and end time of the outage. For planned outages, no further data is needed, however for forced outages the entry form will prompt you to indicate the system that was effected, the cause, and the corrective action.
 

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On the data entry page there are options to change and remove data that was previously entered.
 

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Only personnel at your facility with the password will be able to see the specific data that you enter, however the summary statistics and OR measures will be able to be seen by anyone who looks at the website.
 

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Yes, even if a unit is not operating for an entire month, a reserve outage must be entered.
 

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All units must have data entered every month and this data must be entered at the same time or else an error will occur and ask you for the missing data.
 

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If you accidentally delete data that you cannot replace use the contact information on the support page to contact EEA and request assistance.
 

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