About Equipment and TML Groups

Before you can conduct a Corrosion Analysis on an asset, an Equipment record must exist in the GE Digital APM database to represent the asset on which you want to perform the corrosion analysis. The types of records that you create in your Corrosion Analyses will depend upon what your Equipment records represent.

Before you can create TML Groups, an Asset Corrosion Analysis and Corrosion Analysis Settings must be created for an asset, represented by an Equipment record. Equipment records can be created manually via Record Manager, or they may be loaded into your database from another data source (e.g., SAP). After assets exist, you can create TML Groups.

Consider, for example, a piping circuit that contains three piping lines. You might want:

• One Equipment record to store all of the information for the piping circuit and the three piping lines.

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• One Equipment record to store information for the piping circuit and three TML Groups to store information for the individual piping lines (one TML Group for each piping line). These TML Groups would be linked directly to the Equipment record that stores information for the piping circuit.