Introduction to SAP Asset Strategy and Performance Management

Features

• Templates

  Define template that helps you to define the attributes attribute group, causes and effects. You use this create template of the following types:

  • Model template

  • Equipment template

  • Spare parts template

  • Location template

  • System template

• Models

  Model and assign business entities such as instructions, documents, announcements, parts information of the model. A model is an abstract representation from the manufacturer that defines all maintenance and specification information related to a new or existing product. A physical equipment is an instance of a model. A model is based on a template and allows users to add values to the definitions used in the underlying template.

• Systems

  Model systems and sub-system that help the operators to create hierarchies in addition to functional location hierarchy. This allows you to view the associated topology diagram and relevant connections can be made using the APIs.

• Equipment

  Create a piece of equipment based on an existing model, and add additional information such as operator, equipment installation information, equipment location information, and assign documents relevant to the equipment. In addition, it allows you to view the assessment score details of an equipment.

• Location

  Create a location and assign it to your item of equipment. This assignment is made based on the functionality of the items of equipment. A functional location corresponds to a virtual record of the location where an equipment is installed. This is based on a template and allows users to add values to the definitions used in the underlying template. In addition, it allows you to view the assessment score details of a location.

• Performance Improvement

  Provide suggestions or solutions about a piece of equipment, its process, or maintenance.

• Groups

  Group together different business objects for multiple purposes. In addition, you can view the assessment score details of groups.

• Spare Parts

  You use this feature to perform various operations on a spare part such as creating spare parts, viewing spare parts, and deleting spare parts. Spare parts are components that are kept in your inventory as spare. Typically, these components are not fitted into your item of equipment, but can be fitted into the item of equipment when needed. If these spare parts are fitted into the physical item of equipment, you can assign these spare parts to the corresponding model on the network.

• Failure Modes

  You use this feature to view the probable failure that could occur to piece of equipment or a model. A total of five objects can be assigned.

  The failure mode keeps the operator informed about possible failures and helps them to handle the failure modes efficiently.

• Announcements

  You use this feature to perform various operations on an announcement such as creating an announcement, viewing an announcement, updating an announcement, deleting an announcement, and assigning documents, models, items of equipment and locations (of type Availability) to an announcement.

  An announcement is the information that a manufacturer communicates to all his equipment owners or operators. For example: an existing instruction has been updated, or spare parts of an item of an equipment has been updated.

• Instructions

  You use this feature to set-up steps that help the user to carry out a specific task. The manufacturer shares the instructions with the operator. The instructions help the operator to maintain the equipment better.

• Assessment Templates

  You use this feature to create assessment template. This used while assessing equipment, location and groups. This can be of following types:

  • Risk and criticality assessment template

  • Questionnaire template

• Assessment

  You use this feature for assessing and viewing the calculated scores. This can be of the following types:

  • Risk and criticality assessment

  • Questionnaire

• Impacts

  You use this feature to view the impacts from the conducted risk assessments. For example an event may impact multiple aspects each with its own severity. This is defined as impacts for example safety of people and plant, environmental compliance, operational loss, financial impact and so on.

• Scale and Dimensions

  You use this feature to define the question and answers based on which the assessment is done.