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Purpose

Maintenance task lists describe a sequence of individual maintenance activities which must be performed repeatedly within a company. Task lists are used to standardize these recurring work sequences and to plan them more effectively. Many manufacturers deliver their technical objects together with maintenance task lists; these task lists are, however, frequently created within the company itself.

Activities for a technical object include for example

Task lists help to reduce the maintenance effort when standardized work sequences change, for example as a result of new legal regulations. You must carry out the changes at exactly one place in the corresponding maintenance task list. All maintenance orders and maintenance items that refer to the maintenance task list automatically receive the actual status of the work sequences.

Integration

Using maintenance task lists, you can reduce the time required to create maintenance orders and maintenance items as you can refer back to the operations and sequences already entered in the maintenance task list.

Moreover, you can include inspection characteristics from the Quality Management module in maintenance task lists and if necessary, include the task lists in the test equipment management function. This is advisable, for example, if you want to keep individual data for each piece of test equipment or if you want to have a record of the results history. For more information, see Structure linkTest Equipment Management.

Features

You can use maintenance task lists in the following areas of Plant Maintenance:

Maintenance task lists contain important information such as the spares and tools required for the work steps or the time required to perform the work.

Planned Maintenance

The term "Planned maintenance" includes all the maintenance work you can plan for the scope of work and deadlines, that is, inspection, maintenance and planned repairs.

In the PM application component, you can also define the intervals at which individual work steps should be executed in the task list for planned maintenance. You assign these task lists to a maintenance plan in maintenance planning. This ensures that only operations in the maintenance order that have been assigned to the maintenance package due can be copied when scheduling work. The system creates maintenance orders when a maintenance plan is due.

For more information, see Maintenance Planning

Ongoing Maintenance

All maintenance work that does not come under planned maintenance is classed under ongoing maintenance.

Task lists for ongoing maintenance serve as the basis for a maintenance order and can be used based on the results of the current inspection.

You can also use maintenance task lists as a model and aid for capturing data when processing maintenance orders by assigning a task list to an order. This considerably reduces the amount of work preparation for maintenance activities.

If, for example, you are creating a maintenance order for a task whose operations have already been described in detail in a maintenance task list, enter only this task list and the performance deadlines in the order. The system will copy the individual operations from the maintenance task list.

For further information, see Work Scheduling with Maintenance Task Lists.

You can copy operations from task lists into an order automatically. For further information, see Worklist for Notifications and Assigning a Task List to a Notification.

Configurable Maintenance Task Lists

It is also possible to create super task lists in which you describe all possible operations for maintenance activities for different object types. According to requirements, you can configure a suitable variant for a technical object from the super task list which means that you do not have to create your own task list every time.

For further information, see Configurable General Maintenance Task Lists

 

 

 

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