Object Structure—Key Exercises

Basic Data Setup

Object Level

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to set up the basic data required to perform the exercises below. 

Windows:
Equipment Basic Data/Object Levels

  1. Create a new object level that allows serial objects to be connected to it.

General exercises for Object Level

Connection Type

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to set up the basic data required to perform the exercises below. 

Windows:
Equipment Basic Data/Connection Types

  1. Create a new object connection type.

General exercises for Connection Type

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to familiarize you with the Navigator, define and create functional objects, and connect these objects into structures.

Windows:
Functional Objects
Functional Object
Equipment Object Navigator

Create Functional Object

Via Functional Objects/Functional Object windows

  1. Open the Functional Objects window, and populate it (F2).
  2. Create a new functional object in the table by clicking New on the toolbar (F5).
  3. Complete the required fields as follows:
    1. In the Object ID field, enter XX2122.40, where XX is your initials. 
    2. In the Object Description field, enter Pulp Pump 4.
    3. In the Object Level field, select Object ID using the List of Values (F8). (Select an object level with Serial Objects Allowed.)
  4. Save the record (F12).

Via tree structure in Equipment Object Navigator window

  1. Open the Equipment Object Navigator window, and populate it (F2).
  2. Select an object in the tree view that is wanted as parent object.
  3. Right-click and then click Create Functional Object or (Create Serial Object).
  4. The new object is automatically placed under the selected parent object.
  5. Complete the required fields as follows:
    1. In the Object ID field, enter XX2122.40, where XX is your initials. 
    2. In the Object Description field, enter Pulp Pump 4.
    3. In the Object Level field, select Object ID using the List of Values (F8). (Select an object level with Serial Objects Allowed.)
  6. Click OK.

Handle Equipment Object

  1. In the Functional Objects window, create a new functional object, but to save time, copy the information that you entered above. To do this, highlight the object, right-click and then click Copy Functional Object. Then enter the required new object ID information, and select the optional information (e.g., spare parts, parameters, and test points) that you would like to copy.
  2. Click OK to finish the copying process. 
  3. Reopen the Functional Objects window, and populate it (F2).
  4. Select the PM-31-1 object, right-click, point to Operational Status and then click Scrapped. (If the Scrapped option is not available, check to ensure that the operational status of the part is Out of Operation. If not, first set the object to Out of Operation and then try again. An object must have the Out of Operation status before it can be scrapped.)
  5. Check that the operational status for PM-31-1 now is scrapped.
  6. Query for object PM-31 by clicking Search in the toolbar (F3).
  7. Select the PM-31 object, right-click and point to Equipment Object Navigator to view the object in a graphical structure.
  8. Expand your tree view for Equipment Object(s) containing PM-31, Paper Machine.
  9. Find PM-31-1, Approach Flow in the tree view. How can you tell that this object has been scrapped?
  10. Expand your tree view for Equipment Object(s) containing the PM-312-PA-001-EC01 object. Start by expanding object PM-31-2.
  11. View the graphical structure by expanding the node for the object. How can you tell the difference between serial and functional objects in the sub level for object PM-312-PA-001-EC01?

Note: If selecting an object in the object navigator tree in the Equipment Object Navigator, you have several options available in the Summary tab both to create a fault report/service request and for reporting in work. The service request is used in IFS/Service Management, and the Fault Report in IFS Maintenance. There are also several tabs available to view different information about the object, and related information such as PM Actions, Work Orders and Service Lines. In this exercise it's shown how equipment objects are created and handled in a Functional structure. This way of working is however very similar to how to work in other available structure types, such as Location, From, To, Process, Pipe System and Electrical structures.