Downtime Recording is software designed for recording and analysis of plant downtime. This includes downtime, outages or stoppages for the performance measurement of maintenance activities in manufacturing or production environments. It includes functions for interfacing to process control and for analysing downtime by multiple dimensions such as type, discipline, process, shift, etc. Downtime Recording is a fully developed multi-user application that includes standard functions of security, data import/export, web publishing, data archiving, multiple data sources, etc. It operates under MS Access 2000 or XP with facilities for user development of reports and extended functions in linked MS Access databases.