Factors that do not affect the decision:

Do you have a simple time based schedule?

Do you have a simple meter based schedule?

Decision tree:

Right now the decision tree may be too small for your window size, if so, here is a verbal version.

• Do you only have MC? use MC
• Would you consider MCe? IF not, use MC.
• Do you only have MCe? Use MCe
• Do you need 2 work orders at any given step? You need MCe
• Do you have complex steps? You need MCe
• Do you have seasonal schedules that go over a year end? You need MCe
• Do you need a trigger based on a spec value? You need MCe
• Do you have problems with the PMs freezing or failing in Manual? You need MCe
• Do you have periodic or frequent reliability issues with PMs not getting created? You need MCe
• Do you want to see logs with more than just entries when things worked? You need MCe
• Do you want a Graphic environment? You need MCe if you want graphical, you need MC if you want text, continue to the last question if you don't care.
• If you got down to hear without a decision: Go with the one you like best.

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 OnlyHaveMC -- Yes --> WouldYouConsiderMCe{Would You Consider MCe}
    OnlyHaveMC --  No --> DoYouOnlyHaveMCe{Do you only have MCe ?}

    WouldYouConsiderMCe -- No --> MC[Use MC]
    WouldYouConsiderMCe -- Yes -->DoYouNeed2WorkOrdersAtAnyGivenStep{Do you need 2 work orders at any given step?}

    DoYouOnlyHaveMCe -- No --> DoYouNeed2WorkOrdersAtAnyGivenStep{Do you need 2 work orders at any given step?}
    DoYouOnlyHaveMCe -- Yes --> MCe[You need MCe]

   DoYouNeed2WorkOrdersAtAnyGivenStep -- No -->ComplexSteps{Do the schedule result in some steps having nothing to do such as a schedule with 100 hours 200 hours 250 hours?}
   DoYouNeed2WorkOrdersAtAnyGivenStep -- Yes -->MCe

   ComplexSteps -- No -->DoYouNeedSchedulesThatGoOveraYearEnd{Do you need schedules that go over a year end?}
   ComplexSteps -- Yes -->MCe

   DoYouNeedSchedulesThatGoOveraYearEnd -- No --> DoYouNeedToTriggerBasedOnaSpecValue{Do you need to trigger based on a spec value?}
   DoYouNeedSchedulesThatGoOveraYearEnd -- Yes --> MCe

DoYouNeedToTriggerBasedOnaSpecValue -- No --> ManualPMProblems{Do you have problems with the PMs freezing or failing to run in manual?}
DoYouNeedToTriggerBasedOnaSpecValue -- Yes --> MCe

ManualPMProblems -- No --> AutoPMReliability{Do you have periodic reliablitiy issues with PMs not getting created}
ManualPMProblems -- Yes -->MCe

AutoPMReliability -- No -->  Logs{Do you desire logs for more than just 'success'}
AutoPMReliability -- Yes --> MCe

Logs -- No --> GraphicOrText{Would you prefer to work in a graphic environment or text? Graphic}
Logs -- Yes --> MCe

GraphicOrText --Text --> MC
GraphicOrText -- Don't Care --> Preference{Do you work most of the time in MC or MCe?}
GraphicOrText -- Graphic --> MCe

Preference -- MC --> MC:::End
Preference -- MCe --> MCe:::End

Major factors to have you pick MC

You only have MC and don't want to consider MCe

You don't have any issues with the MC procedures and you don't need any of the features that MCe adds and you are ok with or prefer a text UI

Major factors to have you pick MCe

You are willing to consider MCe, or you only have MCe, and especially if you have one of the features that only MCe offers or you have reliability problems with they 'only once a day' MC generations:

• 2 or more work orders at a given step
• A need in your interval for a 'do nothing' step
• You have reliability issues with the MC generation process (usually works, sometimes doesn't) (This is caused by a number of factors such as 'deadlock' where the PMs aren't allowed to run an since they only try once a day, if they fail 2 or 3 times in a row - that is 2 or 3 days in a row, and if they fail even once - and they will - then all daily PMs have to be manually generated for that day.)
• You have schedules that start at one point in the year and end in the next calendar year.
• You have PdMs that should be based on a spec value
• You want to see logs of when/why PMs were not generated