Tips and Tricks for Perform Maintenance Engineering

Below is a list of tips and tricks for the Perform Maintenance Engineering course. Click one of the items below to see information that may be helpful to you as you take the course.

Users
Exercise data identifiers and numbering
Process models
Queries
History

Users

There is a number of predefined user IDs for the IFS/Vehicle Information Management (IFS/VIM) courses. This makes it easier for the teacher as he or she does not have to define users when starting a training course. These users have been set up properly with company, site, employee, etc.

User ID	Role	Student Number	Company	Site
VIM	Main VIM user	-	10	91
JATA	Teacher	-	10	91
CHBE	Student	n=1	10	91
COHO	Student	n=2	10	91
FRFO	Student	n=3	10	91
GEPI	Student	n=4	10	91
JABR	Student	n=5	10	91
JOHA	Student	n=6	10	91
MIJA	Student	n=7	10	91
PERO	Student	n=8	10	91
RIST	Student	n=9	10	91
ROPA	Student	n=10	10	91

Exercise data identifiers and numbering

In the exercises you will see that most of the data are specified with prefix n, X or a combination of these. For example, nX747-900 (Part Number), X10000 (Serial Number) and nAC (Maintenance Group).

The use of prefixes has several advantages:

the n is used to identify data that belongs to student number n.
the X makes it easy to query for the data you are using in the exercises for IFS/VIM courses (including predefined data).
a query like 3X% will normally retrieve data that belongs to student no 3.
exercise text can be more specific when referring to data elements.
the students do not have to create their own identifiers.

Data Specification	Teacher	Student Number n
Vehicle Part No	X747-900	nX747-900
Revision	*	*
Top Part S/N	X10000	nX20000
Structure Part S/N	X19999	nX39999
Workshop	LAX-C LAX-L	nLAX-C nLAX-L

Process Models

To Perform Maintenance Engineering

Queries

Support for Structure Changes and Operational Planning

This window displays information to support the selection of serials or vehicles for structure changes and operational planning.

Compare Template and Serial Structures

Use this window to compare the template structure for a given template part revision and structure position with the serial structure of a given serial.

Course attendees will enter relevant data during the Manage Master Configuration and Manage Serialized Configuration courses. Otherwise use part number X747-900 revision * and serial number X10000.

History

When making a course, the main focus has been to present application level capability. In some extent this will form a historical view leading to proper data. Hence, the course attendees that have passed all IFS/VIM courses may recognize their own entries which will make sense.