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Yes, a child asset in IBM Maximo can have a different location than its parent. By default, child assets inherit the parent’s location, but this can be changed manually in the Assets application. Simply update the location field of the child asset while keeping the parent-child hierarchy intact. This setup helps track assets independently while maintaining relationships.

We wanted to do this as well, but every time we moved the child to a different location it would drop the parent association. We had to run "update maxvars set varvalue='1' where varname='KEEPTHEPARENT'" on the database to make sure the parent/child relationship remained after moving the child to a different location.

This is not an answer but I had the same question as well as the same problem James Hayes describes below. For some reason the interface here doesn't let me reply to specific response so I have to post an "answer'. For James: how did you run that update you described? I have had the exact same problem (dropping the parent/child relationship) when trying to move a child asset that is part of a model structure to a different location than its parent.