Technical Attributes
The asset technical attributes capability empowers you to gain exhaustive visibility about the assets and helps you to make better decisions.
Technical attributes are a set of custom fields associated with assets. Technical attributes help you:
• Create specific information sets for assets. The information captured in technical attributes helps you to track and examine an asset over a period of time.
• Take appropriate decisions about the assets.
The attributes may vary based on product, product category, type of service offered, or product group. As an asset evolves with time and usage, the technical attributes also vary over time.
Asset technical attributes enable monitoring and capturing of additional attributes without causing maintenance overhead.
Using the asset technical attributes capability, the end users can:
• Create and manage technical attributes
• Create and use technical attribute templates
• View technical attribute history
To enable the asset end-to-end experience of asset technical attributes capability for users, you must create and manage technical attribute
template rules. The template rules are applied to the technical attribute templates, and in turn, drive technical attributes being associated with appropriate assets. Technical attributes are displayed for the associated assets and the objects with a lookup to assets.
Use Cases
• A manufacturing company tracks the usage count of the scanner using technical attributes. When the count reaches 100000, a product service campaign (PSC) is triggered to sell the customers a new scanner at a discounted rate in exchange for the current asset.
• A turbine manufacturing company tracks the temperature of the asset using technical attributes. When the temperature remains in a specific range for a period of time, either a maintenance plan work order is triggered or a product recall PSC is triggered.
• A healthcare device manufacturer has a requirement to monitor the power input information for all the mammogram devices of type DMR Plus. There have been issues with power fluctuation in the devices and the devices have been shutting down, so the company wants to monitor the power input scenarios. Also, the company wants to check whether the software version installed on the devices has any impact on the issue. To understand how you can use the technical attributes capability for this business use case, see
End-to-End Flow.
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