When you enter information on an equipment object, you can also associate a variety of information with the object. This includes general equipment object information, such as category, group ID, object type, type designation, and cost center. You can also define technical data, enter purchase information, enter general notes, and connect documents.
Technical data can be defined in several steps. First, you can create an object type in the Equipment Basic Data, and then link technical class which contains technical attributes to this object type. If you associate the object type with an equipment object in the Functional Object or the Serial Object, the technical attributes will automatically be inherited by the equipment object. You can then define values for the technical attributes to describe the object's features, functions, dimensions and settings, etc.
The technical data you register for an object are different for functional and serial objects. For functional objects you define requirements, i.e., required technical data according to functional specifications set on a position (function) in the equipment structure. For serial objects however, you can enter settings and calibration data.
Type designations are entered in Equipment Basic Data/Type Designations. To the type designation you can link a technical class, which contains technical attributes. For the technical attributes you can enter values. If you then associate the type designation with an equipment object in the Functional Object or the Serial Object windows, the technical attributes will automatically be inherited by the equipment object.
The type designation you register for an object is the type-specific data for the type design, i.e., operational parameters.
You can enter some purchase information on the equipment object, e.g., purchase date and price, and date when the equipment object was manufactured and commissioned.
Equipment objects can be defined in many different ways. For example, an equipment object can be spread over a relatively large area, or can have several addresses. In order to specify the actual physical location of an object, you can register one location with one or more addresses for a functional object. You need to enter a unique identity for the entire address on the location connected to the equipment object and then specify a number of address descriptions, e.g., city, street, building, floor, and room. This can be especially useful in IFS/Service Management, but is not restricted to use here.
Party is a concept used to summarize all party types with which a company has a business relationship. The different party types in the system are company, customer, supplier, person, manufacturer, counterpart, issuer, and commissioner. Parties available in IFS/Equipment must have been entered in IFS/Enterprise. In IFS/Equipment, you can select a party type and then associate appropriate parties to it, e.g., associating customers with an object.
If the equipment object is to be used in IFS/Service Management, information on the customer and service contract, if any, are connected to the object.
You can enter optional information on the equipment object that you consider important, and should be documented at some location.
If IFS/Document Management is installed, you can create new documents or connect existing ones to an equipment object.