Equipment Detail Tab

Use the Equipment Detail tab to enter fixed asset information, organization and details about the equipment.

Contents

Field Description
Equipment Type

Use this drop-down list to select the equipment type. This field is required. Valid options are:

  • Machine
  • Tooling
  • Test Equipment
Process Type

Enter, or click to select, the type of process for which the equipment is typically used. The process types listed are defined in the Process Types screen.

Expected Life

Enter the number that describes the equipment's expected life in terms of the unit of measure entered in the U/M field.

U/M

Enter, or click to select, the unit of measure of the equipment's expected life. Units of Measure are defined in the Units of Measure screen in Costpoint Product Definition.

Fixed Assets Information

Use this group box to link this piece of equipment to an asset number and item number already established in Costpoint Fixed Assets, or to a template ID. You are not required to enter information in this group box, which will be disabled if Costpoint Fixed Assets is not installed.

Field Description
Asset

Enter, or click to select, the asset number in Costpoint Fixed Assets that you want to link to this piece of equipment. The asset number's short description is displayed in the field to the right of the Item field.

Item

Enter, or click to select, the item number in Costpoint Fixed Assets that you want to link to this piece of equipment. This field may already display the item number associated with the number you entered in the Asset field.

Template

Enter, or click to select, the template number that will be used as the mechanism to automatically populate the Asset Master record with data from that template. The template's short description is displayed to the right of the Rev field.

Rev

Enter, or click to select, the revision number of the template you want to link to this piece of equipment. This field may already display a revision associated with the number you entered in the Template field.

Organization

Field Description
Organization

Enter, or click to select, the ID of the organization to which this equipment belongs. The organization name is displayed to the right of this field.

Org Abbrev

Enter, or click to select, the abbreviation of the organization to which this equipment belongs. If you entered an organization ID in the Organization field, this field displays the abbreviation associated with it.