In a company, you first need to decide which technical systems and buildings are relevant for maintenance and need mapping in the system. You need to use functional locations to map more complex technical systems, equipment to map individual objects, and maintenance bills of material to map spare parts.
Functional Location
Functional locations are hierarchically ordered structures that represent a technical system, building, or part thereof.
You can structure a functional location according to spatial criteria (for example, building 1 and building 2), technical criteria (for example, press, press frame, and press hydraulics), or functional - that is, process-oriented - criteria (for example, polymerization and condensation).
The aim of creating a functional location is to structure a technical system or building into units that are relevant for plant maintenance. When you create a functional location, it takes on the function of the location where individual objects (such as engines, gearboxes, pumps, and so on) can be installed. In such cases, you can view removal and installation locations both from the point of view of the installation location and also from the point of view of the individual installed or removed object.
You can use functional locations to structure your systems based on the following conditions:
- The structures of the technical systems in your company have to be represented according to functional criteria.
- The maintenance tasks have to be performed for certain parts of your technical system and this work must be recorded.
- The technical data for certain parts of your technical system has to be stored and evaluated over a long period of time.
- The costs of maintenance tasks have to be monitored for certain parts of your technical system.
- The effects of the usage conditions on the probability of damage to the installed equipment have to be analyzed.
Structure Indicator
The identification for functional locations is created by using the structure indicator. The structure indicator consists of the following input fields:
- Edit mask
- Hierarchy Levels
The edit mask is used to control which characters can be used for identification (letters, numbers, special characters or all three) and how these characters are grouped together or split. The hierarchy levels are used to define which level ends at which character and how many hierarchy levels the structure can contain.
A functional location can be identified by using a maximum of 40 characters (maximum length of the edit mask).
Master Record for Functional Location
- General: class, object type, reference data, manufacturer data, and so on
- Location: location data, address
- Organization: Account assignment information (such as company code, cost center), responsibilities (such as maintenance planning plant)
- Structure: Information such as structure indicator, higher-level functional location, and equipment
How to Find a Functional Location
How to Display a Functional Location Hierarchy via the Asset Viewer