The opening and closing of panels that are required when you perform maintenance execution will be handled via Master Panel Card (MPC) tasks that get published from CAMO.
You can view the panel instructions from the latest revisions of the Open Panel JIC and Close Panel JIC prior to opening/closing the panel on the Panels tab (i.e., on the Task Details page of MPC open/close tasks) and on the Task Card page when signing off the opening/closing of the panel.
The Panel Status field indicates the status of an individual panel and is useful to identify what action needs to be taken next on the panel. Possible statuses are:
| Panel Status | Description |
| To be Opened | The panel is still to be opened. There is no sign-off on the panel opening |
| Opened | The panel has been opened and there is at least one sign off against the panel. |
| Ready To Close | All maintenance tasks requiring the panel to be opened and the connected MPC open task are all completed. |
| Closed | All skills are signed off against the panel, and the status of the MPC close task of the panel is signed off. |
| No MPC | This panel doesn't have a connected MPC open/close task. |
| Not Linked | The panel was removed from one or more maintenance tasks and is no longer linked to any maintenance tasks. |
The Overall Panel Status field indicates the status of all the panels of a maintenance task and is useful to decide whether to start work on the maintenance task. Possible statuses are:
| Panel Status | Description |
| To be Opened | Work has not started to open any of the panels listed on the maintenance task. |
| Opened | All panels listed on the maintenance task are opened and all those associated MPC open tasks are completed. |
| Ready To Close |
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| Closed | All MPC close tasks connected to the panels in the maintenance task are completed. |
| No MPC | The maintenance task does not require panels to be opened or closed. |
You can open a panel to perform a maintenance task by signing off its MPC open task.
This completes the sign-off of opening the panel and updates the panel status from To Be Opened to Opened. If you have at least one opening sign off for the panel its panel status shows as Opened.
You can start a maintenance task once you open all the panels that are required for it by signing off all those panels in their corresponding MPC open tasks.
You can add or remove zones and panels from a maintenance task in the corresponding Zones/Panels tabs of its Task Details page and also when raising a fault or a non-routine. However, for panels added to maintenance tasks after workscope generation, opening or closing of the panels must be recorded on the maintenance task as they will not have connected MPC tasks
When you raise a fault or a non-routine, the zones and panels you add on its corrective task are synchronized to CAMO. Also, when you defer a fault or a non-routine, which require you to execute panels, the deferred fault or non-routine gets removed from the MPC tasks.
Once all the maintenance tasks, which require a particular panel to be opened are completed, both the panel status and the overall panel status of the corresponding maintenance tasks become Ready To Close.
If several maintenance tasks require the execution of one or more panels from the same zone so that they are connected by the same MPC tasks, you cannot close any of them until you complete all other dependent maintenance tasks. This is true even if all panels linked to one maintenance task are individually in the Ready To Close status.
You can close a panel after all the maintenance tasks, which require it are completed.
Signing off the MPC close task of the panel updates the panel status from Ready to Close to Closed.
Also, the overall panel status of the maintenance tasks, which require this panel becomes Closed.