Enter General Equipment Information
Explanation
Use this activity to enter general object information. You can, for example,
enter type designation, object type, category, object group, cost center, room,
item class, manufacturer, and so on.
If an object type is entered for the object, it inherits the technical attributes,
that have been connected to the object type. These are shown in the
Technical Data tab. If a type designation
is entered for the object, it inherits the technical attributes that have been
connected to the type designation. These are shown in the
Type Designation
tab. The connection between the object type, type designation, and attributes
is performed in Equipment
Basic Data
Note: You cannot manually enable or disable the options in the
Functional Object Has, Serial Object Has, and Type Designation Has
area. These are automatically enabled by the system when appropriate information
has been entered.
Prerequisites
- Information on the type designation, object type, category and group
must have been entered in the
Equipment Basic Data
(in IFS/Basic Data for Maintenance).
- Information on the item class must be entered in the
Failure Analysis
Setup Navigator or
Maintenance
Basic Data/Item Classes
tab
- Information on the cost center and the financial object must have been
entered in IFS/Accounting Rules.
- Information on the manufacturer must have been entered in IFS/Enterprise.
If the object has a part number, the manufacturer information must have
also been registered in the
Part .
- Information on the supplier must have been entered in IFS/Enterprise.
System Effects
As a result of this activity, some general additional equipment object information
is entered on the object.
- If you enter a type designation, the connected technical attributes
will be automatically inherited by the equipment object and displayed in
the
Type
Designation tab of the relevant object information page.
- If you enter an object type, the connected technical attributes for
the object will be displayed in the Functional
Object/Requirements tab, or in the
Serial Object/Technical Data tab.
- If you enter an object type, the connected position for the object will
be displayed in the Isolation
page.
- If you enter a cost center, it will be used for financial accounting
and follow-up of maintenance costs for the object.
- If you enter an item class, the item class will be automatically connected
to the work order created for the object, values for the Symptom
field will be filtered according to the item class and work task templates
can be copied from the item class.