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 Simplified Management of EAM Functions 3

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY_3

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Available From

SAP enhancement package 7 (SP05) for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical Usage

Central Applications

Application Component

Plant Maintenance (PM)

Required Business Function

Simplified Management of EAM Functions 2 (LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY_2)

This business function provides you with enhanced functions for planning and performing maintenance tasks on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance. This business function enables you to use several functions in maintenance orders, notifications, task lists, and maintenance plans on the Web UI that up to now were only available in the respective SAP GUI transactions. In addition, you can use quickviews and side panels to get further information about maintenance objects and create personalized list views to select and process maintenance documents efficiently.

You can use the features of this business function in the following ways:

  • In SAP NetWeaver Portal with the business packages Business Package for Maintenance Worker 1.61 and Business Package for Generic EAM Functions 1.61

  • In SAP NetWeaver Business Client with the PFCG roles Maintenance Worker (SAP_COCKPIT_EAMS_MAINT_WORKER2) and Generic EAM Functions (SAP_COCKPIT_EAMS_GENERIC_FUNC2)

Prerequisites

  • You have installed the following components for the version mentioned and higher:

    Component Type

    Component

    Required for the Following Features Only

    Software component

    SAP_APPL 617, EA-APPL 617

    SAP NetWeaver

    Portal Content (optional)

    SAP NetWeaver 7.4

    Business Package for Generic EAM Functions 1.61

    Business Package for Maintenance Worker 1.61

  • You have activated the business function Simplified Management of EAM Functions 2.

  • You have made all the necessary settings in Customizing for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service under Start of the navigation path Master Data in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Maintenance Worker End of the navigation path.

Features

Personalizing the Web UI

Users typically work with tabular overviews to process data in maintenance documents, such as costs and operation data in orders and malfunction and activity data in notifications. Being able to create personalized views for the tabular lists of orders, notifications, task lists, and maintenance plans makes it easier to search for and process maintenance data specifically relevant for you. You can personalize the table by displaying and hiding table columns as well as sorting, filtering, and grouping the table entries. You can then save your personal settings as your own view. In addition, you can have the system highlight search results in the list as well as add up the table entries in numeric table columns, and you can export the table to a spreadsheet.

For more information, see Personalizing the Web UI.

Quickviews

When processing maintenance documents, it is often necessary to access information about linked documents, technical objects, materials, or long texts. Up to now, the only way to access this information was by navigating to the corresponding objects in the system. On the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance, this business function provides quickviews that display essential information about each object when you hover over it. In the quickview for a piece of equipment, for example, the category, manufacturer, location, and status information are displayed as well as a link to the functional location where it is installed. You can configure each individual quickview to display certain information for the users.

For more information, see Quickviews.

Work Overview, Master Data Overview, and POWL

The Order and Notification Information Center provides an optimized work overview for processing orders and notifications. In this work overview you have extended search options, you can personalize your list and create different views, and you can display your favorites as well as the most recently accessed orders and notifications. In addition, there is a separate work area for accessing orders and notifications directly. To process technical objects, you can use the Information Center in the Master Data Overview.

In the Order and Notification List (POWL) you were already able to process orders and notifications from your personal worklist. However, only a limited amount of selection criteria for configuring this list was available. With this business function, you can use additional selection criteria for configuring your own personal worklist. This business function also enables you to display table columns in the Order and Notification List for monitoring costs and dates and to use side panels to access further information about maintenance documents and materials. You can also set all the available system statuses for orders and notifications in this list.

For more information, see Working with Personal Object Worklists (POWL).

Structure List for Technical Objects

You can display structure lists for any technical objects that are part of a hierarchy. Structure lists not only make it easier to find technical objects and materials in orders, notifications, task lists, and maintenance plans, but they also provide essential information about the technical objects and components. You can also use the structure list in the operation details to assign materials to order operations.

For more information, see Selection of Technical Objects from the Structure List.

Setting Additional System Statuses in Orders and Notifications

Up to now, some of the system statuses that you were able to set in the SAP GUI transactions for orders and notifications could only be displayed on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance. With this business function, you can change the system status in orders, notifications, and in the Order and Notification List as follows:

  • Maintenance Order: Do not execute, Complete (Business), Cancel business completion, Lock, Unlock, Set Deletion Flag, Reset Deletion Flag

  • Maintenance Notification: Put in Process Again, Set Deletion Flag, Reset Deletion Flag

The technical IDs of the system statuses that are set for the current order or notification are displayed in the Identification Region. The descriptions of these system statuses are displayed in a tooltip.

Enhancements for Inspection Rounds

For inspection rounds, you can assign technical objects and assemblies to maintenance orders and task lists at operation level. In the operation details, you can enter measuring points as production resources/tools for the technical objects that you have assigned at operation level.

Note Note

To be able to use this function, you must also activate the business function Enterprise Asset Management Part 4 (LOG_EAM_CI_4).

End of the note.
Enhancements for Maintenance Orders

The following new functions for processing maintenance orders are available on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance:

  • You can create and edit long texts directly in the operation data and in the operation details (on the Material tab). A new popup is available for entering the long text.

  • You can create orders using a template (reference order). When you create a new order by copying an existing order, you can specify whether you want to copy the relationships, settlement rules, linked documents, and order descriptions as well.

  • When you process an order, you can run a cost simulation. The system calculates the costs and displays this information on the Costs tab.

  • You can create order operations by copying existing operations.

  • On the Operation Data tab, you can assign a new task list to the order. The assigned task list is displayed in the General Data.

  • You can assign materials using a catalog in the order operation details. An Open Catalog Interface (OCI) is provided for this.

  • You can assign technical objects and materials using a structure list.

  • You can set additional system statuses in the order that up to now you were only able to display. You can set these system statuses in the Order and Notification List as well.

  • For inspection rounds, you can assign technical objects and assemblies at operation level. In the operation details, you can enter measuring points as production resources/tools for the technical objects that you have assigned at operation level.

For more information, see Maintenance Order.

Enhancements for Task Lists

The following new functions for processing task lists are available on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance:

  • When creating, changing, and displaying a task list, you can enter a validity date that can be the current date or a date in the past or future.

  • You can create and edit long texts directly in the operation list and in the operation details (on the Material tab). A new popup is available for entering the long text.

  • For inspection rounds, you can assign technical objects and assemblies at operation level. In the operation details, you can enter measuring points as production resources/tools for the technical objects that you have assigned at operation level.

  • You can assign technical objects and materials using a structure list.

For more information, see Task List.

Enhancements for Maintenance Notifications

The following new functions for processing maintenance notifications are available on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance:

  • You can enter activities and use them to confirm the work you have completed. On the Activities tab, you can select predefined activities or create your own and enter descriptions. You can also enter and confirm the time spent on each activity.

  • On the Malfunction Data tab, you can document damages by selecting predefined damage codes or by manually entering the damages along with descriptions and object parts. In the details for the damages, you can describe the causes and enter activities.

  • You can assign a task list to the maintenance notification. If this notification is later assigned to an order, the system copies the operations of the task list to the order.

  • You can create long texts directly in the malfunction data, task data, and in the activities, and edit the long texts in a popup. You can have the first few lines of the long text displayed in a quickview.

  • You can create notifications using a template (reference notification). When you create a notification by copying an existing notification, you can specify whether you want the linked documents to be copied to the new notification as well.

  • You can set additional system statuses in the order that up to now you were only able to display. You can set these system statuses in the Order and Notification List as well.

  • You can assign technical objects using a structure list.

For more information, see Maintenance Notification.