Test Equipment Management 

Purpose

This scenario describes how to enter measurement readings and how to monitor the test and measurement equipment you create as technical objects, in the areas of plant maintenance or customer service. The aim of the inspection is to determine whether your technical objects meet the required quality standards, or whether they need to be repaired, rejected or replaced. You can:

Prerequisites

To manage test equipment and enter extended measurement readings, you must have created technical objects. If you want to automatically update the measurement documents in plant maintenance or customer service as a follow-up action to the usage decision you must:

In the scenario Test Equipment Management, you can combine business functions from the Quality Management (QM) component with functions from the Plant Maintenance (PM) component or the Customer Service (CS) component.

Component

Functions

Quality Management (QM)

Performing and documenting quality inspections on test and measuring equipment

Plant Maintenance (PM)

Managing test equipment; maintenance planning;
Scheduling maintenance operations and recording costs

Customer Service (CS)

Managing test equipment; maintenance planning;
Scheduling maintenance operations and recording costs

 

Process Flow

Preventive Maintenance Plan

Inspection Lot Creation

There are the following ways to create an inspection lot when entering measurement readings and monitoring technical objects:

Maintenance or Service Order

  1. You process an order if you:

The order causes a task to be performed on an object by a due date.

  1. If required, you plan the necessary capacity requirements for the work center where an operation is to take place.
  2. When all the operations have been recorded, you release the order. Once this order is released, the SAP System automatically creates an inspection lot relating to the technical object.

Quality Inspection for an Order

When the inspection lot is created, the system provides the required shop papers for the quality inspection.

  1. You inspect the technical object and record results for the measurements taken. The results are either directly recorded, or copied into the system from external measuring equipment using the QM interface.
  2. You can document any defects in the results recording function for the technical object. If you want to use the R/3 System to manage a defect you have identified, together with the corrective action for this defect, the system can automatically create a maintenance or service notification.
  3. If all the inspection characteristics have been inspected, the system valuates the inspection object or technical object. The object can be valuated automatically or manually. As a result, data for an inspection report is available.
  4. You make the usage decision for the technical object and decide whether the technical object is to be:
  1. You can confirm any costs incurred when results were recorded or when the usage decision was made in the maintenance or service order.

You can trigger the follow-up actions listed below, depending on the outcome of the inspection:

You close the order.

Result

After the inspection is completed, if no defects were found for your technical objects by the quality inspection, you have test equipment that complies with the quality standards.

If defects were found, you can decide whether the technical objects that no longer comply with the quality standard have to be rejected, repaired or replaced.

If the system automatically created a maintenance or service notification at defects recording, use a damage-related notification to create and process an additional order.