Explain the meaning of equipment master.
Answer:
1. Equipment Master pertains to one of the master data elements within the domain of Operations & Maintenance i.e. The SAP Plant Maintenance Module.
2. The business object "Equipment" is an individual, physical object that is to be maintained independently. It can be installed in a technical system or part of a technical system.
You can manage all types of device as pieces of equipment (for example, production utilities, transportation utilities, test equipment, production resources/tools, buildings, PCs).
Since many of these physical objects are managed as "assets" in Asset Management, the term "piece of equipment" was chosen for objects defined from a technical perspective, in order to avoid confusion with the activated tangible assets.
You define and manage each piece of equipment in the Plant
Maintenance (PM) System in a separate master record and can set up an individual
maintenance history for each one.
Question:
For an equipment master record what fields need to be filled in?
Answer:
Depends upon the Equipment. Normally, the fields which used to maintain in an Equipment master are:
Equipment Category, Constr.type (serialized), Planning
Plant, Work center, Plant, Maintenance plant, Location. You can attach
an equipment to another using superior Equipment filed.
Note:
T-code for Creating Equipments is IE01
Self-test Question
What is an equipment?
A. It is a machinery generally non movable
B. It is a machinery generally movable
C. It can be installed/removed in a functional location
D. A piece of equipment is an individual object that
is to be maintained independently and cannot be installed in a functional
location
Answer: B, C
