7 Locate Parent and Component Information

This chapter contains these topics:

If you establish parent and component relationships for your equipment, you can view all the components for a specific piece of equipment. View parent and component relationships so you can:

  • Report on equipment costs at the parent or component level

  • Review up to 25 levels of parent and component relationships

7.1 Reviewing Parent and Component History

Navigation

From Equipment/Plan Management (G13), choose Equipment Information

From Equipment Information (G1311), choose Equipment Search

You can toggle between parent and component history to display all current and previous parents for a component. You can also toggle to display all current and previous components for a parent. Use date fields to limit your inquiry to selected dates or leave the date fields blank to review the entire history of a component or parent.

To review parent and component history

  1. On Equipment Search, locate a piece of equipment.

    Figure 7-1 Equipment Search screen

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    Description of "Figure 7-1 Equipment Search screen"

  2. On Equipment Search, enter 13 in the following field to access the Parent History Inquiry for the equipment:

    • Option

    Figure 7-2 Parent/Component History screen

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  3. Toggle to alternately display component history.

7.2 Reviewing Current Equipment Components

Navigation

From Equipment/Plan Management (G13), choose Equipment Information

From Equipment Information (G1311), choose Equipment Search

You can display current component information for a selected parent.

To review current equipment components

  1. On Equipment Search, locate a piece of equipment.

  2. On Equipment Search, enter 7 in the following field to access Component Cost and Net Book Value (NBV).

    • Option

    Figure 7-3 Item Components screen

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  3. On Item Components, use options to access the level of component information you need.

7.2.1 What You Should Know About

Options on Item Components Description
Changing equipment parent/component relationships Enter 1 to access the Equipment Master. You can make changes to equipment parent/component relationships by changing the parent number for a piece of equipment .
Displaying parent information Enter 6 to display a component's immediate parent. The system displays the parent and the components of the parent.
Displaying the next component level Enter 7 to display all components of a specific piece of equipment. The component for which you select Next Level moves to the first display level, and its components display beneath it, according to the display level you choose.
Searching for similar equipment by category codes Enter 8 to search for all equipment whose category codes match those of a specific parent or component. The system displays the Equipment Search screen complete with category code values identical to those of the selected equipment.

If you access the Item Component screen from a menu rather than from Equipment Search, this feature is not available.