Technical Object Location

The “Technical Object Location” offers many field entries for Location and Contact Information und can be assigned to a Technical Object after Recording. This information can be helpful for Work Order Planning when Object Locations are outside the own plant site, for example.

A Map with the respective Location of the Technical Object can be displayed in the Schedule Board. The List “Technical Object Location” was created originally for the planning of external Maintenance Services.

There are three Tabs:

• General
• Communication
• Coordinates

Recording a Technical Object Location

By searching for “Technical Object Locations” the List with same name can be opened and by clicking on “New” a new “Technical Object Location” can be created.

In the "General" tab, a location code is first entered in the "Code" field, then a (general) company contact can be selected in the "Company no." field if necessary. When the company contact has been entered, the data transfer can be confirmed in a query and the address and communication data are transferred.

Subsequently, a personal contact person can be selected in the “Contact No.” field, also with optional data transfer. Further input options concern field contents that are tailored for service or sales locations, amongst others.

The Tab “Communication” offers Options to enter contact data, that, as described before, can also be transferred from “Company No.” or “Contact No.”.

Geographical Coordinates can be entered in the “Coordinates” tab. However, the Online Map Function is based on the Address data entered at Tab “General”.

If an enterprise specific Bing Key was entered in the “Work Order Management Setup” in the “General” Tab, the Technical Object Location can be displayed in an Online Map by clicking on “Actions”, “Address” and “Online Map”.

Assigning a Technical Object Location to a Technical Object

After a “Technical Object Location” has been setup, it can be assigned to one or more Technical Objects. The following figure shows a Component Address in the first Level of the Equipment Structure.

Below the assignment option of a Location to the Technical Object in the “Locality Code” field, the sliding fields “Inherit Location” and “Passon Location” are also available, which makes it possible to reduce the assignment of the Location to just a few Technical Objects, provided that the subsequent Technical Objects (in the structure path) are used at the same Location and can thus inherit this Location Information.

The option to assign a Locality Code and the inheritance exists at the Structure Elements Component Addresses, Mounting Positions and Technical Components.

The following figure shows the setup of a Technical Component, to which, by assigning it to the Mounting Position, also the Locality Code was assigned, as the sliding field “Inherit Location” has been activated and the Mounting Position itself inherited the “Locality Code” from the former shown Component Address.

If the “Locality Code” is displayed in the list view of the above-mentioned Structure Elements, the stored location information can be accessed with one click.

Using Technical Object Location at the Work Order

When planning a Work Order, mostly a Technical Object is assigned. If a Locality Code is assigned to the Technical Object, MAIN-TOOL can reference this Location Information in the Work Order. It´s therefore not necessary, to document the Location, where the Work Order is to be executed.

This information can be shown in the Work Order by clicking on “Process” and then “Location of Work”.