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You may, for example, want to create a container for a specific plant, inside of which is a container for each building. You may even have a container for each floor within a building. To locate the equipment record for a pump that is malfunctioning, you can drill down on the appropriate plant, building, and floor; this narrows the list of equipment records that you need to scroll through to find and create a service call for the correct equipment.
Containers can also be used for reporting purposes; by organizing equipment records per the example above, you can keep track of how much work and money is going into a specific building or plant. You can also analyze the amount of preventative maintenance vs. emergency repair service that is performed at each level of the hierarchy; for example, if one pump has undergone more emergency repairs than the others, it may need more frequent scheduled maintenance or to be part of a replacement schedule.
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