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Learn about Failure Codes and Failure Hierarchies and techniques for creating a hierarchy. Learn about Failure Reporting on a work order and settings that can affect this.
Learn about changing the asset state, reporting downtime, or modifying downtime history. Learn about the differences with reporting downtime on a work order and some settings that effect this.
Learn about how you can move and modify one or more assets, or how you can swap one asset with another including some limitations.
Learn about the various associations that can be made with Locations and Assets: Users and Custodians, Services, Inspection Forms, Work Zones, and Time Zones.
Learn about the differences between asset subassemblies and spare parts and how spare parts can be added automatically. Learn why you might use the Assets action Issue Items From Storeroom.
Learn about Location and Asset Classifications and Specifications. Learn about the inheritance of Location and Asset Specification values from an Item Specification and how to control this.
Learn what a rotating asset is and isn’t. Learn about the features of rotating assets, and how some of these features are also applicable to locations.
Learn about Asset Templates and how they can be applied to assets or used to generate assets, including the generation of rotating assets.
Learn how meters are applied to locations and assets. Learn about meter readings and the reset/replace options for continuous meters.
Learn about the meter types and how meters can be grouped including the calculation options for continuous meters. Learn about Condition Monitoring points and how they are connected to meters.
Learn about the Service Address application and how it can be applied to a location or asset, or how it can be inherited from the asset or location hierarchy. Learn about the Service Address Options found in the Organizations application.
Learn that there are several location types, not just OPERATING, and an operating location can belong to multiple systems and can have multiple parents in a Network System.
Contents This article covers Linear Asset changes on the Condition Monitoring application including how to generate work orders, which includes settings in Organizations and Cron Task Setup applications. The article finishes with Meter Readings on the Work Order Tracking application. Condition Monitoring Linear is also supported in the Condition Monitoring application when you add a measurement. I’ve created a Condition Monitoring Point 1006…
Contents This article returns to the Assets application to see how meters are supported on Linear Assets. Assets Applications – Meters Tab A continuous meter on a linear asset, for example a count of the number of accidents, or traffic volume must be placed at a measure along the linear asset. For gauge or characteristic meters, the…
Contents This article reviews the changes in the Work Order Tracking application to support Linear Assets, but it does not include meters and meter readings. Performing Work on Linear Assets There are a few work order scenarios about linear assets that can be accommodated on both the Work Order Tracking and Quick Reporting applications. Linear Segment Details…