Asset Hierarchy, Classifications and Types
Assets are maintained in a hierarchical tree, with defined parent-child relationships. Any asset can serve as a parent to other assets in the tree, and Maintenance Connection provides tremendous flexibility in organizing the tree to meet the unique needs of your organization. Some organizations have complex hierarchical trees with many levels defined. Other organizations have simpler hierarchies, with only a few levels of depth. Maintenance Connection helps your organization define an appropriate tree structure during implementation.
Each asset in the tree is identified by its asset classification, a name, and a unique identifier. Each asset record maintains complete information about the asset, including the maintenance history. Additional modules are maintained to store supplementary data on your assets, such as specifications, common failures.
Assets or locations with records beneath them are referenced as parent nodes of the list. A parent record can be defined purely for organizational purposes, or can be maintained like any other asset. This means you could maintain a node for Vehicles to store different vehicle records, even though you have no need to maintain the Vehicle Node.
In contrast, an HVAC unit might be a parent to HVAC components, such as coils. Even though this HVAC Unit is a parent node, it can be maintained like any other asset. An asset becomes a parent node whenever an asset is created beneath it. If a given asset has other assets beneath it, the asset will have Expand 
and Collapse 
buttons.
If an asset does not have organizational properties assigned to it—such as repair center, department or shop—the asset inherits the properties of its parent(s) during work order generation. This means when a work order is created on an asset, any organizational properties defined for that asset are populated in the work order. If the asset does not have a particular organizational attribute—such as repair center—Maintenance Connection searches up the list and populates the work order with the first repair center found.
Maintenance Connection maintains Asset Classifications to allow information common to multiple assets to be stored in one location for faster and more accurate data entry. For example, you might have an Asset Classification for HVAC Units. This allows your organization to define information common to HVAC Units in one place, and have that information automatically populated to all HVAC Units created. For example, you might define specifications for all HVAC Units—such as AMPS or Insulation Type—with defined minimum / maximum thresholds. Each time an HVAC Unit is added, these specifications will automatically be associated with it.
For each Asset Classification, there can be a large number of associated assets. For example, you would have one Asset Classification for Fire Extinguishers, even though you could have 500 Fire Extinguisher Assets maintained in your organization. Similarly, you would only have one Asset Classification for Floors, even though you could have many floors in a given building.
Properties of Asset Hierarchy
