Assets / Telecom Assets / Background Data - Facilities
Facility Background Data
Use the following tasks of the Assets / Telecom Assets / Background Data - Facilities process to add location, organization, and equipment standard data, which you will refer to when developing your telecom inventory.
Facilities Background
- Developing Geographic Data -- Define geographic regions, countries, regions, states, cities, and sites for your equipment.
- Developing Locations -- Define sites, buildings, floors, and rooms. If you intend on depicting your telecom and equipment assets on a room plan, be sure to develop a room plan in CAD.
- Developing the Organizational Hierarchy -- Define Business Units, Divisions, and Departments.
Equipment Systems Background
To effectively track your equipment assets, you can group your assets hierarchically, so that you have an easy way to visualize the dependencies between equipment items. For example, when planning a project, having defined equipment systems enables you to analyze what are the "hidden" costs and risks associated with all the related assets, assemblies, and systems.
You can also define and work with equipment systems in the Equipment System Console, which is available from several processes in the Asset Management and Enterprise Asset Management applications, and the Assets module.
To set up equipment systems, you use the following background data tasks:
| Task | Description |
|---|---|
| Define Equipment Systems | The application enables you to map equipment assets to systems (the top level), and to the system's assemblies and components to define dependencies. |
| Define Spaces Served by Equipment | You can define the spaces served by the equipment system from the building to the room level to better plan for disruptions when the equipment needs repair or maintenance. |
| Define Team Property Categories | Define categories to distinguish different types of teams. You can then associate these categories with the teams you define. |
| Define Team Properties | Use this task to define the teams that support assets. |
| Assign Team Members to Equipment | After defining a team, you assign members to it. Team members can be employees, contacts, or vendors that have been entered into the system. |
| Define Building Systems | Building systems are the critical systems of your facility, such as the Electrical, HVAC, Security, Life Safety, Lighting,. You can define these building systems and associate equipment systems with the building system they are part of. |