Shop Visit Setup—Basic Data and Requirements Exercises

IMPORTANT
If you are a student, it is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site

Note: Throughout this document, please replace any occurrences of XX with your initials, group ID, user ID or other unique prefix, in order to separate your training data from that of other students.

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to learn how to enter the basic data used when defining IFS/Vehicle Information Management (IFS/VIM) parts, template structures and serial structures.

Define Workshop & Maintenance Organization

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to define a workshop and maintenance organization.

Windows:
Serial Basic Data/Workshop
Organization Basic Data

  1. Open the Serial Basic Data window and click the Workshop tab.
  2. Create a new record.
  3. Enter  XX_100 as the workshop code.
  4. Enter Engine Shop in the Description field.
  5. Enter XX_90 as the site.
  6. Allow the field Maint. Org. to be blank.
  7. Select the Preferred Workshop check box, if you want this workshop to be your default workshop (Only one workshop can be defined as the Default workshop for each site).
  8. Save the record.
  9. Verify that a corresponding Maintenance Organization is created as well.

Note: Workshop codes are not really applicable in Complex MRO but are still mandatory in serial structures because of common basic data for different MRO types. When creating a workshop in VIM, a corresponding Maintenance Organization (formerly known as Department) is created automatically in IFS Maintenance as well.

Define User Access to a Workshop

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to define workshop access for your user ID.

Windows:
Maintenance Task Basic Data/Workshop Access

  1. Open the Maintenance Task Basic Data window and click the Workshop Access tab.
  2. Query for your user ID.
  3. Create a new record in the table of the window.
  4. Enter XX_100 as the Workshop Code field or select it using the List of Values.
  5. Save the record.

Note: If you want to define a workshop as default, select the row for it, right-click and then click Set Default Workshop. The Default Workshop check box is automatically selected.

Verify/Adjust Default Object Properties

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to verify that the default object properties are set correctly.

Windows:
System Definition/Object Property

  1. Open the System Definition window and click the Object Property tab.
  2. Query for the record where the Property Name is VIM_COMPANY.
  3. Verify that the Property Value field contains 10. If not, change it to 10 and save.
  4. Similarly, verify the value for POSITION_PART_DLIMTR as well.
    Object LU Object Key Property Name Property Value
    SerialOrderHist COMPANY VIM_COMPANY 10
    PositionPartReference POSITION_PART_NO POSITION_PART_DLIMTR /