Understand parent entities and inheritance

The entity tree structure in the Physical Entities module allows you to create a hierarchical model of the entities in your organization that represents the actual relationships of entities in your plant.

In addition to allowing you to model the structure and locations of the entities in your plant, the parent–child relationship between entities also provides an inheritance of certain associations of the parent entity to its child entities. This allows you to control aspects of your entities more easily by simply changing the association at the parent level—which changes will be inherited by its child entities—instead of having to make the changes individually for each child entity. It can also allow jobs that are queued to a parent entity to be run on any of its available child entities.