Parent/Component Relationships

You can use parent and component relationships to group components in the system. For a piece of equipment, you can track the history of its immediate parent or any of its components. The system accommodates as many as 25 levels of components, which is useful if you use complex or interchangeable equipment assemblies.

A parent piece of equipment consists of other parts or components. It also can be a component of another piece of equipment.

A parent also can be a virtual or logical piece of equipment with component relationships to other logical equipment. For example, a manufacturing line can be a parent, and the associated manufacturing machinery can be components of the manufacturing line.