Single Cycle Plan and Strategy Plan
Definition
Single cycle plans or strategy plans are maintenance plans with which you can show time-based or performance-based maintenance cycles.
Use
You use single cycle plans to show simple maintenance cycles .
A single cycle plan is the simplest form of maintenance plan. You create a single cycle plan and define exactly one time-based or performance-based maintenance cycle , in which you specify the interval at which the maintenance plan should be executed.
It might be used, for example, for the annual maintenance of a car or for the repair of a photocopier after every 10,000 copies.
In contrast, you use strategy plans to show complex maintenance cycles .
You create a strategy plan and assign a maintenance strategy in which you have defined the maintenance cycles (in the strategy maintenance packages ). A maintenance strategy contains general scheduling information, and can therefore be assigned to as many maintenance plans and maintenance task lists as required.
For example, it makes sense to use a strategy plan if different maintenance tasks for a car are due in different cycles: oil check every 1,242.74 mi, oil change every 6,213.71 mi.
For more information, see Time-Based Maintenance Plans and Performance-Based Maintenance Plans .