Configuration Management

Configuration Control features provide the ability to monitor the physical breakdown structure of various customer-owned or company-owned assets. To achieve a logical grouping of serialized item structures, you can group the structures under installation group. You can manually create a serialized item, or modify existing items. Serialized items are the building blocks of physical breakdown structures.

You can create a breakdown structure from:

You can set up a physical breakdown to manage product configurations (breakdown structures) during service and maintenance activities. The physical breakdown is used to display the relation between serialized items.

You can delete the physical breakdown of the related top-serialized items and all associated child serialized items simultaneously.

An item breakdown is a standard item's list of constituent components. The item breakdown can be displayed as a multilevel structure or as a single-level structure, and can be used as input for a physical breakdown.

Serialized items are customer-specific or owner-specific configurations that consist of items such as photocopiers, computers, air conditioners, forklifts, lathe machines, or aircraft. You can manually create a serialized item, or modify existing items. Serialized items are the building blocks of physical breakdown structures. These serialized items are uniquely numbered and can be status controlled. Each serialized item is life cycle controlled from various parts within Service. Based on this, a serialized item can exist in various locations, such as in configuration, in depot repair, in transit, or in a warehouse.

A serialized item group is a group of serialized items with similar features. Use the Serialized Item Groups session to define a serialized item group.

You can register and process multiple changes to the child of a parent item in the Physical Breakdown Structure (PBS). All the changes incorporated at one breakdown level, are updated to the PBS after approval, simultaneously. The set of changes incorporated to a PBS is grouped as a change number. When a new changes are applied to the existing PBS, a new change number is created and the existing physical breakdown structure is copied to the physical breakdown changes. After the changes are processed, the physical breakdown changes can be closed.

You can update/modify the PB lines with the Status set to Free. The modified lines must be submitted. The Status of the physical breakdown lines changes to Pending Approval.The changes can be Approved or Rejected. You can set the Status of the individual lines to Pending Approval, Approved or Rejected or you can set the status at header level to implement the changes to all the lines, simultaneously.

You can replace the parent, the top item or the serial number of a Physical Breakdown Structure. When you update the parent, the top item or the serial number, all the related components are also updated. The status of the ‘old’ item is changed to ‘Superseded’ and you cannot use this item anymore in Infor LN.

You can now delete a range of inspections based on serialized items and inspections.

This session is created to link a range of serialized items as installations, to the specified installation group. To link the serialized items to the installation group: