Component Info |
The Component Info tab enables you to define components related to equipment units. One parent equipment unit may have any number of components associated with it, but a component (child) may be assigned to only one parent. The Data -> Equipment Units -> Components -> Assignment History screen tracks component relationships as they are added, deleted, or modified.
The Component Relationships screen supports location-level access control. If it is in effect, the logged in user must have view rights to the access rights location for the equipment ID to view records and update rights to the access rights location for both the equipment ID and component ID to insert, update, or delete records.
To create a component relationship for an equipment unit:
Click New.
Enter the applicable equipment ID and component ID.
Click Save.
To verify the relationship, go to the Relationships tab on the Data -> Equipment Units -> Fleet Equipment screen.
The field in the top section of this tab defines the data that displays.
Equipment ID
Identifier of the equipment unit currently selected in the grid. This field has a list box. The equipment unit year, manufacturer, and model display to the right of the ID.
Tip: You can set a zoom button for this field to detect the type of equipment and display the appropriate screen. If you used Administrator Mode to add a zoom button, you will need to use it again to remove your user-defined zoom button for this functionality to work.
Data in the fields in the bottom section of this tab define components related to equipment units.
Component ID
Identifier of the component associated with the equipment ID. You can relate as many components to an equipment unit as you like, but each equipment ID and component ID combination must be unique. This field has a list box of valid equipment IDs. Components are defined as equipment units on the Data -> Equipment Units -> Fleet Equipment screen.
Note: If you specify that equipment ID 123 is a component of equipment ID 456, you cannot also specify that 456 is a component of 123. An equipment number cannot be a component of its own component.
If there is a check in the Perform SLA out of service and in shop processing from work order screens field on the Work Orders - Options tab of the Data -> Setup -> Organization Structure -> Locations -> Primary Information screen, then when an equipment's status changes for one of the following reasons, all attached components are also changed automatically.
Information on a primary equipment screen is updated
Work order is opened
Work order is finished or closed
End of day processing changes a WORK FINISHED status to IN SERVICE
Tip: If you delete an equipment unit, all entries for that unit are automatically deleted (whether as an equipment ID or component ID) from the component (CMP_MAIN) table. If you renumber an equipment unit, all of its component relationships are automatically renumbered.
Keep meter readings synchronized
If this field has a check, meter readings between attached units are kept synchronized. Applies to equipment units that are permanently attached to each other and depend on one another to obtain meter readings. Any level in the chain of attached components may have this option checked, but the setting will not be maintained through the automatic movement of serialized parts that also are tracked as components.
Note: To synchronize meter readings between attached equipment units, the meter type and maximum meter values must match.
Do not update status of associated components when creating or updating a work order
Check this box to turn off the relationship update process. This shuts off the relationship tree updates of work order status and SLA status for a work order, and will not update any component relationships in the work order.
Component relationship work order updates are updated in a hierarchical check system. If an item is not updated on the top level, a check is performed on the next level, and so on through the chain of the hierarchy. If any level check comes back with this field checked, the relationship tree is not updated. The hierarchy of checking for updates follows the path below.
Location level
Asset category level
Component relationship level