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, area/zone, deck/floor, 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, group, area/zone, deck/floor and room 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.