Physical Breakdown Structure, Service

Physical breakdown enables you to display the relation between serialized items(through parent-child relations). You can explode the physical breakdown to display a (multi-level) breakdown structure that displays the complete structure of the serialized items within a configuration. The concept of physical breakdown is introduced in Infor LN.

Create physical breakdown

You can set up a physical breakdown to manage product configurations (breakdown structures) during service and maintenance activities.

In Service Order Control, you can handle the service-order activities, to update active physical breakdowns.

Select the Configuration Status Usage check box in the Configuration Management Parameters (tscfg0100m000) session. You can maintain the physical breakdowns in the Physical Breakdowns (tscfg2110m000) session.

Physical breakdown can be created using any of the following options:

  • As-built structure
  • Item breakdown
  • ASCII file
  • Project-breakdown structure

Activate physical breakdown

Set the Status of the parent item(serialized item) to Activein the Physical Breakdowns (tscfg2110m000) session to activate the physical breakdown. All the events and changes to the physical breakdown of an item are automatically logged.

Physical breakdown changes

The physical breakdown changes functionality is used to register and process multiple changes to a single level of the relations of a parent item in the Physical Breakdown Structure. Multiple changes can be specified and maintained. All the modifications to a breakdown level is updated to the PBS at once after approval.

A new change number is created for each physical breakdown change. Based on the configuration management parameters the physical breakdown structure can be created automatically, manually or through a BOD message.

  • Automatically created physical breakdown: During the completion of the physical breakdown change, a physical breakdown structure can be created automatically only if the Automatically Update from Maintenance Sales, Automatically Update from Service Orders, Automatically Update from Work Orders check boxes are selected in the Configuration Management Parameters (tscfg0100m000) session.
  • Manually created physical breakdown: You can create the breakdown changes manually using the Physical Breakdown - Changes (tscfg2640m000) session or by selecting the Create Physical Breakdown option from the Action menu in the Physical Breakdowns (tscfg2110m000) session.
  • Physical breakdown created through a BOD message.

Physical breakdown log

Physical breakdown log is used to monitor each change in the physical breakdown structure. The initial physical breakdown along with the identified modifications the action that are performed are stored in the physical breakdown log.

Select the Create Physical Breakdown Log check box in the Configuration Management Parameters (tscfg0100m000) session to create a physical breakdown log.

Note: 

The installations or removals are logged automatically, only if the following conditions are met:

  • The serialized item's status in the Serialized Items (tscfg2100m000) session is Active.
  • In the Configuration Management Parameters (tscfg0100m000) session, either the Configuration Status Usage check box or the Create Physical Breakdown Log check box is selected.

The graphical browser framework (GBF) that you can start in the Physical Breakdowns (tscfg2110m000) session, also uses the data in this session.