MAM 7.6.1.2:

Question:
What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATIONS table?

It looks like that table is a unique list of classifications and their descriptions. But I don't think I understand what it's used for.
As a novice, I would have thought that I could just store the classification description in the CLASSSTRUCTURE table -- and avoid the need for an additional table.

Thank you.
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#Maximo

The Classifications table is to hold the classification + its description, just like the failurecode does as well.  As the classification can be reused, just like the failurecode, for the same code you want the same description.  Please note the the classification description (CLASSSTRUCTURE.CLASSIFICATIONDESC) and Classstructure description (CLASSSTRUCTURE.DESCRIPTION) maybe different.  Each time you use the same classification say BATTERY having a description of "Battery", in the classstructure description is blank.  

This allows you to customize the description that appears in the drilldown vs the classification list (these point to different descriptions). so rather than having the same code duplicated and having BATTERY and BATTERY1 and BATTERY2, you only need to use the BATTERY classification with the classstructure description providing the variation i.e. Lead Battery, Gel Battery, Hydrongen Battery.

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Craig Kokay,
Lead Senior Maximo/IoT Consultant
ISW
Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed June 02, 2021 06:28 PM
From: User1971
Subject: What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATION table?

MAM 7.6.1.2:

Question:
What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATIONS table?

It looks like that table is a unique list of classifications and their descriptions. But I don't think I understand what it's used for.
As a novice, I would have thought that I could just store the classification description in the CLASSSTRUCTURE table -- and avoid the need for an additional table.

Thank you.
#Maximo
#AssetandFacilitiesManagement

I've been doing some testing regarding classifications, descriptions, etc.








Question:

@Craig Kokay said:
"This allows you to customize the description that appears in the drilldown vs the classification list (these point to different descriptions)."

As far as I can tell, the only place that the CLASSSTRUCTURE.DESCRIPTION gets used is the Classifications application list view. 
Is that correct? Is that what Craig meant by "drilldown vs the classification list"?



Thanks.
#Maximo
#AssetandFacilitiesManagement

Think of Classifications as a Taxonomy.  As Craig used Battery as an example, you might have Battery, Lead, Wet, 12V, 6 Cell, Automotive for one, and another as Battery, Alkaline, Dry, 1.5V, D, Flashlight.  The description being generated by the Classification attributes. This is typical of Items

Since classifications can be applied to a wide variety of objects, the manner of application can vary widely.  Using classification for Work Orders and Assets are not the same from the standpoint of the Workorder or the Asset but from the classification perspective they mechanics are the same.  The classification of SRs and workorders has a wide range of applications and usage.  You can get really inventive on how you use classifications expecially for Workorders and SRs.  For Items, assets and locations the classification is more standardized to provide a way of managing the object in a way that will normalize the nomenclature and characteristics of the object to consistently define all similar objects of like nature.

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Bradley K. Downing , MBA
IBM Certified Adv. Deployment Prof. Maximo v7.6.1
IBM
Bakersfield CA
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed June 02, 2021 06:28 PM
From: User1971
Subject: What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATION table?

MAM 7.6.1.2:

Question:
What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATIONS table?

It looks like that table is a unique list of classifications and their descriptions. But I don't think I understand what it's used for.
As a novice, I would have thought that I could just store the classification description in the CLASSSTRUCTURE table -- and avoid the need for an additional table.

Thank you.
#AssetandFacilitiesManagement
#Maximo

I think of CLASSIFICATIONS as a bag of terms and CLASSSTRUCTURE as arrangements of terms from that bag into hierarchies -- with an arbitrary limitation that you can only use each CLASSIFICATION once in a given hierarchy path. The description of the leaf of the current hierarchy path may / will likely differ from the description of the contextless term from the bag.

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Blessings,
Jason Uppenborn
Sr. Technical Maximo Consultant
Ontracks Consulting
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed June 02, 2021 06:28 PM
From: User1971
Subject: What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATION table?

MAM 7.6.1.2:

Question:
What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATIONS table?

It looks like that table is a unique list of classifications and their descriptions. But I don't think I understand what it's used for.
As a novice, I would have thought that I could just store the classification description in the CLASSSTRUCTURE table -- and avoid the need for an additional table.

Thank you.
#Maximo
#AssetandFacilitiesManagement

Original Message:
Sent: Wed June 02, 2021 06:28 PM
From: User1971
Subject: What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATION table?

MAM 7.6.1.2:

Question:
What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATIONS table?

It looks like that table is a unique list of classifications and their descriptions. But I don't think I understand what it's used for.
As a novice, I would have thought that I could just store the classification description in the CLASSSTRUCTURE table -- and avoid the need for an additional table.

Thank you.
#Maximo
#AssetandFacilitiesManagement

Hi User1971,

The classifications table is just a library of classifications.

When you add a new classification, it asks BMXAA0223E - xxxxx is not a valid classification. Would you like to add it?

So, you say yes.  It after saving goes into the list of classifications. Then at some stage later you reuse the same classification, the description appears automatically.



If you reuse the code, you can then use the CLASSSTRUCTURE.DESCRIPTION to provide a new description.

So using this on a work order, when you select from the classification hierarchy, it looks like this

Normally, though these REPA codes would be a child of another hierarchy.

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Craig Kokay,
Lead Senior Maximo/IoT Consultant
ISW
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Ph: 0411-682-040
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed November 10, 2021 12:02 AM
From: User1971
Subject: What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATION table?


Original Message:
Sent: Wed June 02, 2021 06:28 PM
From: User1971
Subject: What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATION table?

MAM 7.6.1.2:

Question:
What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATIONS table?

It looks like that table is a unique list of classifications and their descriptions. But I don't think I understand what it's used for.
As a novice, I would have thought that I could just store the classification description in the CLASSSTRUCTURE table -- and avoid the need for an additional table.

Thank you.
#AssetandFacilitiesManagement
#Maximo

Think of the Classification as a set of nouns that describe something and which can get reused. PUMP, FAN, CENTRIFUGAL are all nouns. The Class Structure joins these nouns into a hierarchy PUMP \ CENTRIFUGAL or FAN \ CENTRIFUGAL.  It goes back to when PSDI had a subsidiary MRO.com which had buyer, supplier and exchange software for purchases of MRO materials and parts. We acquired the SMD (Standard Modifier Dictionary) from IHS because if someone is going to hook buyers and suppliers together then it would only work if everyone could recognise the same terminology. SMD works based on Nouns for both classifications and attributes, so you end up with a Noun library as Craig said.

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Andrew Jeffery
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed November 10, 2021 12:02 AM
From: User1971
Subject: What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATION table?


Original Message:
Sent: Wed June 02, 2021 06:28 PM
From: User1971
Subject: What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATION table?

MAM 7.6.1.2:

Question:
What's the purpose of the CLASSIFICATIONS table?

It looks like that table is a unique list of classifications and their descriptions. But I don't think I understand what it's used for.
As a novice, I would have thought that I could just store the classification description in the CLASSSTRUCTURE table -- and avoid the need for an additional table.

Thank you.
#Maximo
#AssetandFacilitiesManagement