Prepare Maintenance Visit (ELS)—Basic Data and Requirements Exercise

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to learn how to define the Execution Logic Structure (ELS) template that will be used when working with ELS/ELO (Execution Logic Order) structures.

In this lesson you will learn how to:
- Define grouping criteria for your product model and grouping ID
- Copy similar grouping criteria and modify it to fit your requirements
- Complete grouping criteria and generate the ELS template
- Add sorting to the basic data of selected grouping criteria
- Extend the sorting values to the ELS and grouping nodes in the template
- Generate sorting based on dependencies (on the ELS node level) defined in the Gantt
- Copy information from one grouping template to another and modify it to fit your requirements
- Start over with the definition of grouping criteria for an existing ELS template
- Delete a grouping ID and all its information from the system
- Activate an ELS template, thereby making it valid for connection to maintenance orders
- Set an ELS template that should not be used anymore obsolete

 

Windows:
Define Execution Logic Structure Template

Define Grouping Criteria

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and create a new record (F5).
  2. Enter your product and model numbers in the relevant fields.
  3. Specify a unique grouping ID and a description for it.
  4. Save the information (F12).
  5. The grouping elements are displayed in the Grouping Criteria tab.
  6. Select the Group By check box for the grouping elements that the ELS template is to be grouped by.
  7. In the Sequence By field, enter the sequence in which the nodes are to be generated.
  8. In the Level in Structure field, enter at which level of the ELS a grouping element should be created.
  9. Save the information (F12).

Copy Grouping Template

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and create a new record (F5).
  2. Enter your product and model numbers in the relevant fields.
  3. Specify a unique grouping ID and a description for it.
  4. Save the information (F12).
  5. Right-click and click Copy Grouping Criteria.
  6. Specify the product model and grouping ID from which the information is to be copied.
  7. If you want the copying to be done as a background job, select the available check box.
  8. Click OK.
  9. If needed, modify the ELS sequencing to suit your requirements.

Complete Grouping Criteria

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and query (F3) for your grouping ID.
  2. Right-click and click Complete Grouping Criteria.
  3. Click OK. The ELS template will be generated as a background job if the Generate ELS template in background check box was selected.

Add Sorting to the Grouping Criteria

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and query (F3) for your grouping ID.
  2. Click the Sorting per Grouping Criteria tab and then click the relevant sub tab.
  1. In the Execution Logic Sorting field for the relevant grouping element, enter the required sorting value.
  2. Save the information (F12).

Extend Sorting on ELS Nodes

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and query (F3) for your grouping ID.
  2. To extend all defined sorting on the template, right-click in the header of the window and then click Spread All Sorting on ELS Nodes.
  3. To extend all sorting defined for a particular grouping criteria on the template, click the Sorting per Grouping Criteria tab and then click the relevant sub tab.
  1. Right-click and click Spread Sorting on ELS Nodes.

Define Execution Logic Structure Template - 1

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and query (F3) for your grouping ID.
  2. Click the Gantt tab.
  3. Expand details to view the grouping nodes in the structure.
  4. Activate the Create Dependencies Mode.
  5. Now you can draw dependencies between the different nodes thereby creating a logical sequence for working.
  6. To remove a dependency, simply right-click on the dependency arrow, and then click Delete Link.

Generate Sequencing as Sorting

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and query (F3) for your grouping ID.
  2. Enter, verify or modify the sequencing for ELS nodes in the Gantt tab. (Refer above exercise.)
  3. Right-click in the header of the window and then click Generate Sequencing as Sorting.

Define Execution Logic Structure Template - 2

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and query (F3) for your grouping ID.
  2. Click the ELS Sequencing tab.
  3. In the Predecessor field, enter the predecessor for a grouping node by selecting a valid value from the List of Values.
  4. Save the information (F12).

Define Execution Logic Structure Template - 3

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and query (F3) for your grouping ID.
  2. Click the ELS Sequencing tab or the ELS Nodes tab.
  3. Select the node ID for which a predecessor or successor relationship is to be defined, right-click, and then click Define Predecessors and Successors.
  4. Select the Predecessor or Successor check box for node ID that is to be a predecessor or successor to the selected node ID.
  5. Click Save and Close if you have finished defining relationships. If not, click Apply to save the current changes, and then select another node id to work with.

Redefine Grouping Criteria

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and query (F3) for your grouping ID.
  2. Right-click and click Redefine Grouping Criteria.

Delete Execution Logic Structure Template

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and query (F3) for your grouping ID.
  2. Right-click and click Remove Grouping.

Activate Execution Logic Structure Template

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and query (F3) for your grouping ID.
  2. Right-click, point to Status, and and click Activate.

Set Execution Logic Structure Template Obsolete

  1. Open the Define Execution Logic Structure Template window and query (F3) for your grouping ID.
  2. Right-click, point to Status, and then click Set Obsolete.