performance of certain equipment units. This Getting Started aims to provide a step-by-step

guide to the most common operations which can be performed with it.

• The user will learn how to configure all the engineering objects used by this option, such as:
  Time Model - used to define a plant's primary production and downtime categories
• Equipment - a representation of the machines and devices whose performance and downtime must be monitored
• Reason Trees - a tree-like representation of all the possible causes for a particular kind of downtime period (also called _Machine States_)
• State Translation Tables - a way to map all the Machine States included in a Reason Tree to specific values retrieved from the field
• Counters - able to retrieve data from a WinCC tag
• Algorithms - predefined user-configured statistical calculations for monitoring equipment performance
• Cyclic Calculations - used to execute algorithms automatically at regular intervals

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