Object Structure—Key Exercises

Basic Data Setup

Object Level

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to set up the basic data required to perform the exercises below. 

Windows:
Equipment Basic Data/Object Levels

  1. Create a new object level that allows serial objects to be connected to it.

General exercises for Object Level

Connection Type

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to set up the basic data required to perform the exercises below. 

Windows:
Equipment Basic Data/Connection Types

  1. Create a new object connection type.

General exercises for Connection Type

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to familiarize you with the Navigator, define and create functional objects, and connect these objects into structures.

Windows:
Functional Objects
Business Object Explorer
Functional Object

Create Functional Object

  1. Open the Functional Objects window, and populate it (F2).
  2. Create a new functional object in the table by clicking New on the toolbar (F5). 

Note: You may prefer to start by navigating down an Equipment Object Tree View in the Business Object Explorer. When you select an object in the tree view, it will be the parent object. When you right-click and then click Create Functional Object or Create Serial Object, the new object is automatically placed under the selected parent object.

  1. Complete the required fields as follows:
    1. In the Object ID field, enter XX2122.40, where XX is your initials. 
    2. In the Object Description field, enter Pulp Pump 4.
    3. In the Object Level field, select Object ID using the List of Values (F8). (Select an object level with Serial Objects Allowed.)
  2. Save the record (F12). Alternatively, if you performed this exercise via the right mouse button option on an object in the tree view, click OK. 

Handle Equipment Object

  1. In the Functional Objects window, create a new functional object, but to save time, copy the information that you entered above. To do this, highlight the object, right-click and then click Copy Functional Object. Then enter the required new object ID information, and select the optional information (e.g., spare parts, parameters, and test points) that you would like to copy.
  2. Click OK to finish the copying process. 
  3. Reopen the Functional Objects window, and populate it (F2).
  4. Select the PM-31-1 object, right-click, point to Operational Status and then click Scrapped. (If the Scrapped option is not available, check to ensure that the operational status of the part is Out of Operation. If not, first set the object to Out of Operation and then try again. An object must have the Out of Operation status before it can be scrapped.)
  5. Expand your tree view for Equipment Object(s) containing PM-31, Paper Machine. (Expand the Business Object Explorer folder in the IFS Navigator and Expand the Explore Equipment Objects folder first).
  6. Find PM-31, Paper Machine in the tree view. How can you tell that this object has been scrapped?

Graphical View

  1. Expand the Business Object Explorer folder in the IFS Navigator.
  2. Expand the Explore Equipment Objects folder.
  3. Expand your tree view for Equipment Object(s) containing the PM-312-PA-001-EC01 object.
  4. View the graphical structure by expanding the node for the object. How can you tell the difference between serial and functional objects?

Note: From the Equipment Object Tree View in the Business Object Explorer, you can select an object, right-click, and then click the appropriate option to create a service request or fault report. The service request is used in IFS/Service Management, and the fault report, in IFS/Maintenance. From the Equipment Object Tree View in the Business Object Explorer, you can also open a new root in the same window or a new one.