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Maintaining an Equipment Category 
In this Customizing table you define the description for an equipment category. This allows you to control which basic characteristics a equipment master record such as a vehicle master record should have. Using these control characteristics, you can decide how many and which equipment categories you require.
A view profile for technical objects are defined.
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1. In Customizing for SAP R/3, choose Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ®Master Data in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ®Technical Objects ® Equipment ®Equipment Categories ® Maintain Equipment Category.
2. Choose New Entries.
3. Enter the following data:
Field Name |
User Action and Default Values |
Category |
Enter a one-digit character to distinguish individual technical objects according to their use. Example: D |
Reference Category |
M = Machines P = Production Resources/Tools S = Customer equipment, defines history-relevant fields of an equipment master record. |
Equip. Cat. |
Enter a description indicating the meaning of the specific equipment category. Example: DSD Vehicle |
Checkbox A |
Use this indicator to prohibit alphanumeric equipment numbers for this equipment category, for example, when external number assignment is allowed. X = Alphanumeric equipment numbers are prohibited <Blank> = Alphanumeric equipment numbers are allowed |
Checkbox C |
Use this indicator to define whether change documents should be written in order to trace changes made to the master data. There are two options: X = Change documents should be written <Blank> = No change documents required. |
Checkbox W |
Specifies whether one of the following workflow events is generated when maintaining equipment master data: · PieceOfEquipment.Created · PieceOfEquipment.Changed · PieceOfEquipment.LocationChanged |
Object Info |
No entry. |
Profile |
Assign a view profile for the master data maintenance from the input help. This entry controls which (fleet-specific) views for a fleet object should be displayed on the screen. |
Ctyp/MatNo |
Ensures that the construction type and material number are kept synchronous in the master record for serialized equipment. Choose default indicator settings from the input help. (There is no check if construction type and material number are synchronous). |
4. Save your entries.