Definition
The maintenance cycles and packages contain the time or performance condition when maintenance must be performed.
Use
A distinction is made between
maintenance plan types which are created without a maintenance strategy and those created with one.You create maintenance cycles directly in the maintenance plan for maintenance plans that were created without a maintenance strategy (for example, single cycle plan or multiple counter plan).
To create multiple counter plans, you can use a copy model for maintenance cycles, known as
Maintenance plans which are created with a maintenance strategy (for example, time- or performance-based strategy plans) use the task list specified in the maintenance plan as a reference to the so-called maintenance packages. The maintenance packages themselves are defined in the maintenance strategy.
Structure
Maintenance packages and maintenance cycles contain the following data:
Maintenance Packages |
Maintenance Cycle |
Package number |
|
Short text and description |
Short text and description |
Cycle duration |
Cycle duration |
Unit of measurement |
Unit of measurement |
Hierarchy |
|
Offset and offset short text |
Offset and offset short text |
Preliminary buffer and follow-up buffer |
Integration
The following example describes integration for maintenance packages:
The maintenance order (PM order) is defined as the
You finally assign the individual operations for the maintenance task list to the maintenance strategy assigned to the task list. You assign the maintenance package "every 10,000 km" to the operation "oil change".
Through the assignment of maintenance packages to operations, you define the frequency (in this case, every 6,213.71 miles) in which the operations should be performed.
See also
Displaying a Maintenance Package Sequence for a Maintenance Strategy.