| # Physical Breakdown Structure, Service Physical breakdown enables you to display the relation between serialized items. Physical breakdown relates the serialized items with each other (through parent-child relations). You can explode the physical breakdown to display a (multi-level) breakdown structure that displays the complete structure of the serialized items within a configuration. The concept of physical breakdown is introduced in Infor ERP LN 6.1. Create physical breakdown You can set up a physical breakdown to manage product configurations (breakdown structures) during service and maintenance activities. In the Service Order Control module, you can handle the service-order activities, to update active physical breakdowns. Select the Configuration Status Usage check box in the Configuration Management Parameters (tscfg0100m000) session. You can maintain the physical breakdowns in the Physical Breakdowns (tscfg2110m000) session. You can create a physical breakdown using any of the following options: As-built structure Item breakdown ASCII file Project-breakdown structure Activate physical breakdown Set the top-serialized item to Active to activate the physical breakdown. All the events and changes to the physical breakdown of an item are automatically logged. Physical breakdown log Physical breakdown log is used so that every change in physical breakdown structure is traceable and formally controlled. The initial physical breakdown and all the modifications identified with the action taken that have been executed on it are stored in the physical breakdown log. Select the Create Physical Breakdown Log check box in the Configuration Management Parameter (tscfg0100m000) session to create a physical breakdown log. Note The installations or removals are logged automatically, but only if both of the following conditions are met: The serialized item's status in the Serialized Items (tscfg2100m000) session is Active. In the Configuration Management Parameters (tscfg0100m000) session, either the Configuration Status Usage check box or the Create Physical Breakdown Log check box is selected. The graphical browser framework (GBF) that you can start in the Physical Breakdowns (tscfg2110m000) session, also uses the data in this session. |