Entering General Operation Details

Entering Operation Descriptions

You can explain the work steps that need to be carried out by entering a short description for the operation or suboperation in the table field Description. The system uses this description as the first line of the long text.

In some cases it might be necessary to explain complicated or safety-relevant operations in more detail. You can use the long text editor for this. You can exit long texts in the operation details or directly in the operation data. A popup is available for entering the long text. You can have the first few lines of the long text displayed in a quickview.

Displaying Splits in Operations and Suboperations

During capacity planning in the corresponding SAP GUI transactions, you can split the operation and assign the splits to personnel numbers. You can do this for operations and suboperations.

You can only change the splits for operations in the SAP GUI transactions. On the SAP Web UI, you can only display the splits in the operation details on the Requirements tab page. This tab page on the SAP Web UI not only displays the split data that can be found in the corresponding SAP GUI transactions, but additionally provides you with information on the system status of the splits in the Status table column.

Assigning Task Lists

By choosing the Assign Task List pushbutton, you can assign a task list to each operation.

For more information, see Notifications and Task Lists in Maintenance Orders.

Entering Materials

For each operation, you can enter materials that are required for doing the maintenance work. You enter the materials in the operation details on the Materials tab page. By choosing the appropriate pushbuttons, you can either find the required spare parts in a structure list or in an OCI catalog that is connected to your system.

If you have activated the business function EAM, Integration with SAP 3D Visual Enterprise (LOG_EAM_VE_INT), you can find the spare parts using a graphical viewer. By choosing the pushbutton Select using Visual Enterprise Viewer, you display a popup with a 2D image or a 3D scene of the spare parts. You can then select one or more spare parts in the graphic and copy them to the spare parts list.

If you want to assign several materials with similar data to the order operation, you can copy one or more materials you have already assigned by selecting a material and choosing the Copy Material pushbutton. The system copies all the essential material data and creates a new material item. You can then modify any of the copied data as required.

In the Requirements Date column, the system displays the date on which the required material quantity should be available. This date is automatically determined. If you manually overwrite it, the system automatically selects the checkbox in the Manual Reqmt Date column and no longer allows this material to be automatically scheduled. You can also determine whether or not the respective material should continue to be automatically scheduled by selecting or deselecting this checkbox.

Entering Production Resources and Tools

For each operation, you can enter production resources and tools that are required for doing the maintenance work. Production resources and tools can be, for example, tools for repairing an object, measuring and calibration devices, or technical drawings. You enter the production resources and tools (PRTs) in the operation details on the Production Resources/Tools tab page. In the menu of the pushbutton Add Production Resources/Tools you can select which kind of PRT you require for the maintenance work (such as equipment, documents, measuring points) and assign the appropriate PRT.

Scheduling and Relationships

Displaying Additional Fields

If you have defined additional fields in Customizing, you can display them in the Operation Details on the Additional Fields tab page. You can use the input help to choose precisely one field key for each operation. For this field key, the system then displays all the fields that have been defined and named customer-specifically in Customizing, such as additional quantity fields, date fields, or checkboxes.

Copying Operations and Creating Suboperations

You can copy operations and suboperations by selecting one or more operations/suboperations and choosing the Copy Operation pushbutton. The system copies the operation with all the data that has been entered and assigns it a higher operation number. The system copies the operation data as default values that you can overwrite manually. You can also change the operation number assigned by the system.

You can create suboperations by selecting an operation and choosing the pushbutton New, which inserts the suboperation directly under the operation you marked. You can also create suboperations by copying an operation and turning it into a suboperation. You do so by first copying an operation in the list, then manually changing the operation number and entering a suboperation number. When creating the new suboperation, the system only copies the data from the copied operation that is allowed for suboperations.

Personalization Options in the Operation List

Enhanced functions for both personalizing the operation list as well as sorting and filtering data are available on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance. In Plant Maintenance applications, the system uses the generic design template List ATS component to display data in lists. This function enables you, for example, to group data according to the suboperations of specific operations or to display all operations that have been assigned a specific suboperation.

For more information, see Personalizing the Web UI.

Setting the User Status in the Quickview

You can use the quickview for the table column User Status when you process order operations to set new user statuses or to reset user statuses that have already been set.

For more information, see Changing the User Status in the Order.