Large asset- and fleet-intensive organisations often operate the same type of assets across multiple sites and legal entities, while managing them through a common maintenance and fleet organisation. Today, FAM does not fully support this operating model, which makes it difficult to use FAM as an enterprise-wide solution for customers with complex organisational structures.
FAM should support multiple companies and multiple sites within the same FAM implementation, aligned with the standard multi-company and multi-site capabilities available elsewhere in IFS Cloud.
The capability should allow users to manage fleets/assets belonging to different companies and sites while maintaining the appropriate company/site ownership, financial context, security and user access. Users with the appropriate permissions should be able to work across those organisational boundaries without having to maintain separate FAM structures or duplicate configuration.
This is particularly important for industries such as rolling stock ECM3/ECM4, where fleets are commonly distributed across depots, operating companies, countries or business units but are managed centrally.
Current workarounds based on access groups can help with visibility, but they do not replace true multi-company and multi-site support. Adding this capability would make FAM significantly more suitable for large enterprise customers and remove an important architectural limitation when positioning FAM against alternative EAM/fleet solutions.