You can assign each piece of equipment and each functional location to a technical object type. This allows pieces of equipment that have the same use, for example, to be combined into groups. You can use this grouping for evaluating your master data or maintenance data.
The types of technical objects are also used as a grouping
instrument in fleet management.
IMG transaction Menu path:
- Plant Maintenance & Customer Service -> Master Data in Plant Maintenance & Customer Service -> Technical Objects -> General Data -> Define Types of Technical Objects
Find out what kind of Equipment Category are required from the business user and assign a key and a description for each type of technical object.
Equipment category - Key for distinguishing individual technical objects according to their use.
For examples, possible usages might be:
- Machinery
- Device
- Production resource/tool
- Customer equipment
User will need to specify an Equipment Category when they create a new equipment using tcode IE01
