Configuring Enterprise Asset Management

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Configure the Enterprise Asset Management application to manage the life cycle of your enterprise connected and non connected assets.

Configuration overview

Configuration of the Enterprise Asset Management application by system administrators involves performing the following tasks. Depending on your organization's needs and requirements, some configuration tasks are optional.

Task

Required/optional

Resource

Install the Enterprise Asset Management application

Required to use the Enterprise Asset Management application.

Installing Enterprise Asset Management

Enterprise Asset Workspace

Install the Enterprise Asset Management for Healthcare application

Optional. This application provides functionalities, features, and workflows of Enterprise Asset Management that support healthcare-related roles and asset models

Installing Enterprise Asset Management for Healthcare

Install the OT Asset Management application

Optional. This application helps you to manage assets of the Industrial model category for Operational Technology.

Installing OT Asset Management

Install the Enterprise Asset Management for Data Center and Network Asset Management (DCNAM) application

Optional. This application provides the functionalities, features, and workflows of Enterprise Asset Management but for mission-critical facility-based enterprise assets and linear assets only.

Installing Enterprise Asset Management for Data Center and Network Asset Management (DCNAM)

Install the Enterprise Asset Management for Providers application

Optional. This application adds DaaS provider-based functionalities and workflows to the base Enterprise Asset Management application

Installing Enterprise Asset Management for Providers

Install the EAM Demo Data application

Optional. This application provides demo data for the Enterprise Asset Management application.

Install EAM Demo Data

Configure and activate agentic workflows

Optional. This task enables you to configure and activate any agentic workflows that you want to use in the Enterprise Asset Management application.

Configure and activate agentic workflows for Enterprise Asset Management

Manage tabs that appear in the Enterprise Asset Workspace

Optional. This task enables you to hide or display various tabs in the Enterprise Asset Workspace.

Configure tabs in the Enterprise Asset Workspace

Create model categories

Optional. This task enables you to create model categories that are not already included in the Enterprise Asset Management application.

Create model categories

Configure classification codes

Optional. These tasks enable you to configure and manage classification codes for your enterprise models.

Create a source for classification codes

Import classification codes

Create a classification code

Configure failure and resolution codes

Optional. These tasks enable you to configure and manage failure and resolution codes for asset maintenance.

Manage failure and resolution codes

Create sites for asset groups

Optional. This task enables you to create sites for your asset groups.

Create a site in the Enterprise Asset Management application

Create linear asset types

Optional. This task enables you to create linear asset types that are not already included in the Enterprise Asset Management application.

Create linear asset types

Create stockroom types

Optional. This task enables you to create stockroom types that are not already included in the Enterprise Asset Management application.

Create a stockroom type for enterprise assets

Map roles to enterprise classes

Optional. This task enables you to map Enterprise Asset Management roles to enterprise model and asset classes.

Map enterprise roles to enterprise classes

Configure calibration settings

Optional. These tasks enable you to configure and manage various settings for your enterprise asset calibrations.

Create a calibration category for your enterprise asset calibrations

Create a quality standard for your enterprise asset calibrations

Create a service frequency for your enterprise asset calibrations

Create a calibration attribute library

Configure asset Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Optional. These tasks enable you to configure and manage your enterprise asset TCO.

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for enterprise assets

Configure risk settings

Optional. These tasks enable you to configure and manage various settings that help you track and monitor your enterprise asset risks.

Managing risk in Enterprise Asset Management

Configure key performance indicator (KPI) settings

Optional. These tasks enable you to configure and manage various settings that help you track and monitor your enterprise asset KPIs.

Configuring settings to monitor asset key performance indicators (KPIs) in the Enterprise Asset Workspace

Configure shipping

Optional. These tasks enable you to configure and manage your enterprise asset shipments.

Managing enterprise asset shipments

Create knowledge articles

Optional. This task enables you to create knowledge articles about the Enterprise Asset Management application.

Create a knowledge article for Enterprise Asset Management

Integrate Google Maps with linear assets

Optional. This task enables you to configure and manage integrations between Google Maps and linear asset geo maps.

Configure Google Maps to integrate with linear assets

Opt-in to the Enterprise Asset Management Content Service

Optional. This task enables your organization to share unnormalized enterprise model data with ServiceNow to improve the normalization process,

Opt-in to the Enterprise Asset Management Content Service

Enterprise Asset Management normalization

Edit Field Service Management settings for the Work management view

Optional. This task enables you to modify your Field Service Management configurations so that you can access the Work management view.

Edit Field Service Management configurations for the Work management view

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