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Creating Equipment Hierarchy for CMMS

  • May 27, 2025
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Do Gooder (Customer)
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I haven’t seen this discussed anywhere yet and there isn’t much help out there in using IFS as a CMMS in a manufacturing environment. I started out creating an equipment hierarchy that looks as such:

Plant → Department → Equipment

Fairly simple design. The problem comes when I get to the Equipment level. I want to use a Serial Object for my equipment (I believe) so I can write work orders to them, but it is my understanding that I would need to create a part number for the equipment before I can create a serial object for it. We have presses, washers, lathes, conveyors, etc. that we are creating in IFS to tie work orders to. Has anybody else done what I am trying to do? How should I set this up?

Best answer by JorgenLind

I would recommend to use funtional object, as long as you don't have external requirements for traceability. IE which serial number was at this location in this produktion date for a specific produktion unit component. (ex. aviation, drug industry).

 

This has been setup mutiple Times Before, a plan is needed to archive your goal. Pls make an pm if interested. 

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  • JorgenLind
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  • May 27, 2025

I would recommend to use funtional object, as long as you don't have external requirements for traceability. IE which serial number was at this location in this produktion date for a specific produktion unit component. (ex. aviation, drug industry).

 

This has been setup mutiple Times Before, a plan is needed to archive your goal. Pls make an pm if interested. 

Alexander Heinze
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Echoing Jorgen's response. Use a functional object, the use case is pretty common.

Out of curiosity - do you own these machines or are they customer-owned? Have you evaluated work orders vs. requests?

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  • May 27, 2025

Please share your experience here as I am dealing with similar Hierarchy questions.  

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  • May 27, 2025

We own all the machines we are trying to set up. None of them are moved a lot. They may move a machine to a different production line every once in a while, but it isn’t too common. I started setting them up as Functional Objects, so I will continue that route. Thank you for the responses.

Alexander Heinze
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  • chaiver
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  • Do Gooder (Customer)
  • May 27, 2025

I haven’t evaluated work orders vs requests yet. I did go in to see how I could create work orders and such. I am new to this system, so there is a bit of a learning curve with it. I am very familiar with SAP and have worked on a few transitions. The place I am at now I am starting from scratch, so there is nothing set up now to migrate. 

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