About Asset Hierarchy Configuration

Parent Family: Functional Location
Relationship: Functional Location Has Functional Location(s)
Child Family: Functional Location
Display Field: Functional Location Description
Taxonomy Category: Taxonomy Category
Taxonomy Class: Taxonomy Class
Taxonomy Type: Taxonomy Type

GE Digital APM is built on the premise that, within your company, there are multiple records that can be organized into a hierarchy. This organization relies on the parent-child relationship between records to represent the fact some records can belong to other records.

The Hierarchy can be modified to reflect a custom family. However, the baseline configuration relies on the Functional Location family and the fields in each Functional Location record to define which location each represents. Because there is only one Functional Location family, it is used to store data about all of your locations, where the values in each Functional Location record identify which type of location it is.

The baseline configuration assumes that Functional Locations have Functional Locations and that Equipment is found at the lowest levels of Functional Locations. For example, three pieces of equipment might belong to the same Functional Location, meaning the Functional Location resides on a higher level of the hierarchy than the Equipment.