---
alias: resourceidealcycletime-st
description: "Defines ideal unit cycle times for resources, specifying time scales and quantities"
---

# ResourceIdealCycleTime

## Description

The machine supplier provided unit cycle time.

## Fields

The **ResourceIdealCycleTime** table has the following fields:

| Field | Description | Key | Mandatory | Comments |
| --- | ----- | -- | -- | ---- |
| **Resource** | Resource Reference | Yes | No | |
| **ResourceType** | ResourceType Name | Yes | No | not to be confused with the *Type* property of the **Resource** |
| **Model** | Model Name | Yes | No | |
| **Step** | Step Reference | Yes | No | |
| **Product** | Product Reference | Yes | No | |
| **ProductGroup** | Product Group Reference | Yes | No | |
| **TimeScale** | The time scale used to define the ideal cycle time. | No | Yes |Days, Hours, Minutes or Seconds|
| **TimePerUnit** | Ideal processing time per unit. | No | Yes |Ideal time per material unit|
| **IsReference** | The time is used a reference or not. | No | Yes | Whether the entry must be used for calculating the "normalized" ideal quantity when calculating the OEE. Quantities will always be normalized against the IsReference entry |

Table: ResourceIdealCycleTime fields

!!! info
	Even though **Resource**, **Resource Type** and Model are listed as optional, one of them and only one of them must be defined for each context row.

!!! info
	There can be only one IsReference row set to true for any particular **Resource**, *Resource Type* or Model key combination.

## Precedence Keys

The search precedence rules are the following:

1. Resource, Step, Product
2. Resource, Step, ProductGroup
3. Resource, Step
4. Resource, Product
5. Resource, ProductGroup
6. ResourceType, Step, Product
7. ResourceType, Step, ProductGroup
8. ResourceType, Step
9. ResourceType, Product
10. ResourceType, ProductGroup
11. Model, Step, Product
12. Model, Step, ProductGroup
13. Model, Step
14. Model, Product
15. Model, ProductGroup
16. Resource
17. ResourceType
18. Model