Overview of Meters for Assets

Oracle Maintenance provides you the ability to define and use meters to track your asset utilization. You can define multiple reusable meter templates that can then be assigned to the applicable assets. You can also set up multiple meters for an asset to track different parameters of the asset.

The meters are created to model a physical meter that's installed on an asset. The physical meters have mechanical or electrical properties that define how they capture and record the utilization of an asset over time. The meter templates can be modeled for both types of meter: Continuous meter (for example, an Odometer) and Gauge meter (for example, a Thermometer).

The meter readings provide a historical record of an asset use or asset condition at user-defined intervals. The meter readings provide insight into the asset conditions and requirements that can be useful in scheduled and unscheduled maintenance. Typically, the meter readings are tracked by a physical counter on the asset or by the computer controls that are used to operate and monitor the asset. Few examples of the meter readings are number of operating hours, number of cycles, revolutions, and so on.

As part of meters management, you can perform the following tasks:

• Define a meter template for an asset.

• Associate a meter to an asset.

• View the asset meter details.

• Delete an asset meter that doesn't have any meter reading history.

• Enter new meter readings.

• View meter reading history.

• Insert, edit, and disable meter readings in history.

• Edit the asset meter details.
• Manage meter templates