Plant inventory / logger

Added by Nikos Theodorou almost 7 years ago

Dear all. I am responsible in a plant to check the condition of all the facilities (ex ups, air-conditioning, petrol engines...).
There is a BMS where I centrally collect the status of the condition of all the items. I would like to use redmine in order to :

create an inventory of all the machines
write for each machine the alarms that I get at the BMS
open tickets in redmine where I will write malfunctions of the equipment and what was the solution
track the visit of the technicians for each facility and what they have done.

I think that Redmine can help me. Can you advise me how to organize it?
I will create a Project ex. Plant and sub-projects each of the machines that I will track. So one sub-projects could be ex. Ups

I don't know how to handle the trackers and categories.
Any thoughts how to best organize it?
Thank you in advance.

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RE: Plant inventory / logger - Added by Bernhard Rohloff almost 7 years ago

Hey Nikos,

this looks like an interesting use case for Redmine. In my opinion, everything you have written could be done with it.
So if you ask me how to organize this, I would do it with one or two projects and a couple of trackers. Switching between projects for different tasks is not the biggest strength of Redmine so I would keep it simple. You get very much out of the issues module with custom fields and filters.

So the steps I would do:

Create a project "Plant" or another more appropriate name
Create custom Trackers for Inventory, BMS-Error, Trouble report, Technician report,
Create custom fields for the trackers if needed (inventory number, facility type, place, etc)

You can link your reports and errors to your inventory issue ( link or as parent issue ) so you can quickly get them collected in one view.

How many facilities do you manage? Are there many of the same type? How often do you need to switch between your tasks?

Greetings,
Bernhard

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