Obsolete Equipment

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Obsolete equipment stands for equipment that has been taken out of service. When you tell MainBoss that a particular piece of equipment has been declared obsolete, the record for that equipment is removed from the normal Equipment table and placed in the Obsolete Equipment table.

Keeping obsolete equipment records in a special table serves several functions:

The records are still available to you for the purpose of comparison. For example, you may find it useful to compare meter readings on an old piece of equipment to meter readings on a new one; this can tell you how the new equipment stacks up against the old.
Records on obsolete equipment are not stored in the normal Equipment table. This makes the Equipment table shorter and easier to scan through; it also avoids the possibility of confusing an obsolete piece of equipment with newer replacements.
If it happens that you want to bring an old piece of equipment back into service, MainBoss makes it easy to move the record from the Obsolete Equipment table back to the normal Equipment table. For more information on putting obsolete equipment back into service, see Restoring Obsolete Equipment to Service.

Note: When you make a piece of equipment obsolete, MainBoss does not automatically delete information about spare parts associated with that equipment. For example, the Spare Parts report will show the comment MADE OBSOLETE when a spare part is associated with obsolete equipment. If you want to remove such lines from the Spare Parts report, you must open the equipment record for the obsolete equipment and remove all the spare parts records associated with that equipment.

For more on the normal equipment table, see Equipment.