What Is an Asset

Asset records are used to track technological units, building technical equipment, machines, and instruments. For easier navigation, assets can be assigned to so-called asset groups. An asset group cannot combine assets from different localities.

• How do I create a new asset?
• Asset types
• Asset groups
• Asset lifecycle
• Asset maintenance

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Basic attributes

The following basic attributes can be recorded for an asset:

• Asset code (unique asset identifier)
• Asset name
• Asset type
• Locality
• Manufacturer
• Manufacturer model designation
• Registration number
• Serial number

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Time attributes

The following basic time-related details can be recorded for an asset:

• Year of manufacture
• Date put into operation
• End of warranty

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Components

Asset components are separate assets of a specific type that have a relationship to a parent asset. For example, you can record an air handling unit and, as a component, record a gas burner assigned to it.

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Documents

Any documents can be assigned to individual assets, such as operating manuals, image and drawing documentation, or other documents. A document can be assigned to an asset from your disk, or you can attach a document that has already been uploaded once; see the Documents module.