Over the lifetime of a piece of equipment, it will move through a series of statuses. This article lists these statuses and explains each one.
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Requested
- When an equipment entry is initially created, it is placed in the Requested status. It will remain in the requested status until approved using the Approve option in the Actions menu on the Equipment screen.
- You must have the enabled under your user role to add a new equipment item.
Approved
- Once a piece of equipment has been approved, it advances to the Approved status provided that a Purchased Date has not been specified on the Info tab of the Equipment screen.
- The equipment item must have a Request status before it can be approved.
- You must have the Approve Equipment Permission enabled to approve an equipment item.
Purchased
- Once a piece of equipment has been approved and the Purchased Date has been specified on the Info tab of the Equipment screen, the equipment will advance to the Purchased status.
- You must have the enabled to mark the status of the equipment item as purchased.
In Service
- Once a piece of equipment has been approved and the In-Service Date has been specified on the Info tab of the Equipment screen, the equipment will advance to the In-Service status.
- The equipment will remain in this status for its useful life until it is disposed of.
- You must have the permission enabled to mark an equipment item status as In Service.
- Once the equipment is in service, the main equipment information becomes read-only for all users except those whose role allows the Equipment Admin permission.
Out of Service
- Marking a piece of equipment with an Out of Service status will prevent that piece of equipment from being available throughout the Aspire system.
- You must have the permission to manually mark an equipment asset as out of service.
- A piece of equipment that is marked as Out of Service will not be available in the following areas of Crew Mobile and Aspire: Equipment, Equipment Inspection, Equipment Meter Reading screen, or the Request Equipment Service section of Crew Mobile.
- You cannot mark equipment out of service from the New Equipment screen. The Audit Info tooltip will retain the most recent Out of Service date, and the user assigned the status. Equipment Inspections containing an inspection category score of a Critical status will automatically be marked as Out of Service.
Disposed
- When the Disposal Date has been specified on the Info tab of the Equipment screen, the equipment will advance to the Disposed status.
