Circulating Components

In TM Master v2 the term “Circulating Components” is used for “Spare” components which are on a regular basis are in use and is dismounted and changed when they need maintenance.  

A typical example of a circulating component is a Cylinder Cover. To do maintenance on a cylinder cover it is dismounted from the engine and replaced by a spare cylinder cover. Once the cylinder cover is mounted to the engine it should start receiving running hours from the engine, and the dismounted cylinder cover should stop receiving running hours. This is what the “circulating component” functions enable you to do.

Why do we need circulating components?

A circulating component, as for example a cylinder cover, requires maintenance, and usually the maintenance for these components are hour based. So let’s say that you overhaul your cylinder covers after 15000 hours of use. A mounted cylinder cover will receive running hours from the engine it is mounted on, once it reaches 15000 hours the overhaul job becomes due and you change the cylinder cover with a spare one (dismounted one). The spare cylinder cover is mounted and it will start receiving hours from the engine.