Create Location – A summary of the activity

This activity allows you to define a location in the organization. A location can refer to any one of the following:

• the physical location within the plant where the equipment is installed

• any location where the equipment may be moved for repair, storage or testing

• any other location that you may wish to define, such as “Office premises” and “Warehouses”.

You can carry out maintenance activities on locations. For example, locations in a highly corrosive environment may require a special surface coating. Similarly, there may be locations where dust is accumulated due to the presence of a chimney, and may require a more frequent cleaning than other locations in the plant.

The location created in this activity must be attached to the primary system, if maintenance activities are to be carried out on the location. A system is a logical arrangement of locations in a plant. A primary system is a system, to which all the locations in the plant must be attached so that maintenance can be carried out on them.

You can create a location using the “Create Location” page. You can also specify the planning group for the location using this page. This planning group will approve, forward or reject the work requests or work orders that are raised on the location or on the equipment installed in the location.

Getting familiar with the pages inside

What you can do in this activity

Create a location and attach parameters to the location

Attach inspection points to the location parameters

Specify values for the attribute parameters of the location

You can change the source from which a parameter value can be updated

Attach trouble shooting guides to the location

Change the parent of the location

Build location hierarchy

Create a location and attach parameters to the location

You can create a location in this activity.

• Use the “Create Location” page to create a location.

Parameters that are used to monitor the condition of a location can be attached to the location.

• Select the location, to which you wish to attach parameters, in the “Create Location” page.

• Use the “Attach Location Parameters” page to attach parameters to the location.

Attach inspection points to the location parameters

Inspection points can be attached to a location parameter. Inspection is carried out on these inspection points for recording the values of the parameter.

•  Select the location for which inspection points must be attached, in the “Create Location” page.

• Select the parameter to which inspection points must be attached, in the “Attach Location Parameters” page.

• Use the “Attach Inspection Points” page to attach inspection points to the location parameter.

Specify values for the attribute parameters of the location

• Select the location for which attribute parameter values must be specified, in the “Create Location” page.

• Use the “Edit Attribute Parameter Value” page to specify values for the attribute parameters.

You can change the source from which a parameter value can be updated

• Select the location for which for which you wish to change the source of parameter updation, in the “Create Location” page.

• Select the parameter for which you wish to alter the source of updation, in the “Attach Location Parameters” page.

• Use the “Change Parameter Source” page, to change the source of updation of the selected parameter.

Attach trouble shooting guides to the location

A trouble shooting guide consists of a list of problems that are commonly reported in the equipment or location and the corrective action to be taken for solving such problems. The trouble shooting guide attached to the location can be referred to, whenever a problem is reported in the location.

• Select the location to which trouble shooting guides must be attached, in the “Create Location” page.

• Use the “Edit Location TSGs” page to attach trouble shooting guides to the location.

Change the parent of the location

You can change the parent location of an existing location in this activity.

• Select the location for which you wish to change the parent location, in the “Create Location” page.

• Use the “Change Parent” page to change the parent location of the selected location.

Build location hierarchy

You can build a hierarchy of locations in this activity.

• Select the location system for which hierarchy must be built, in the “Create Location” page.

• Use the “Build Hierarchy” page to build the hierarchy.