In practice, items are defined as equipment that is moved around in the factory, e.g. engines, pumps, rollers, etc. which need to be monitored. The asset card will act as the “location” of where the item has been placed. Example: An engine is being moved around in the company. Each engine bed is defined as an asset (location).
In the system parameterssettings 16.1.0 System Settings, you must enable the use of item management of an asset before you can start using items.
You can set up a prefix in advance to allow automatic numbering of item numbers via the 'System' -> 'Assets' menumenu 15.1.6 Prefix items. The items are created, and connected to and from the asset structure from each item’s list view.
List view of items with various sort, filter and search options, mass update option, as well as the option to export to Excel. The view shows all the items connected/disconnected. Items can be created, edited, deleted, connected to assets and removed (disconnected) from assets via this list.
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New items can also be created directly from the asset card (in view mode) via this button.
[V] This marking indicates that the item is set up with 'Counter [Virtual]'. For more info. see 1.5.1 Add item.