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 Maintenance Notifications (PM-WOC-MN)

Purpose

You use this application component in maintenance processing in the event of a malfunction or exceptional situation to:

  • Describe the technical problem of an object

  • Request the maintenance department to perform a necessary task

  • Document work that has been performed

Maintenance notifications document maintenance tasks completely, and make them available for analysis in the long term. You can use them for preliminary planning and execution of tasks.

Integration

Maintenance processing for unplanned tasks can be divided into the following three major areas:

  • Description of the object condition

    The most important element in this area is the maintenance notification . It is used to describe the condition of a technical object or to report a malfunction of a technical object and request that the damage be repaired.

  • Execution of the maintenance tasks

    The most important element in this area is the maintenance order . It is used to plan in detail the execution of maintenance tasks, trace the progress of the work performed, and to settle the costs for the maintenance tasks.

  • Completion of maintenance tasks

    The most important element in this area is the maintenance history . It is used to store the most important maintenance data on a long-term basis. You can call up this data at any time for evaluation purposes.

This enables you to process all the tasks that are executed within Plant Maintenance, as well as operations that do not belong directly to Plant Maintenance, such as investment, modifications, conversions, and so on.

Features

When you enter a notification for a maintenance object, the system automatically copies all the relevant object data (for example, installation location cost center).

You can use maintenance notifications as the basis for creating maintenance orders, in order to:

  • Plan tasks in detail

  • Track work progress

  • Enter and settle costs for the maintenance tasks

When planning concrete tasks in a maintenance order, you can make reference to several maintenance notifications. If one or more notifications already exist for a maintenance order, you can also enter the technical data for the assigned object retrospectively for these notifications.

During processing or upon completion of a maintenance order, you can also create maintenance notifications as completion confirmations in the form of activity reports.

Follow-up tasks can result from maintenance notifications, such as printing a certain paper, triggering an SAP function, or initiating a workflow.

When a maintenance notification is technically completed, its data is included in the maintenance history.

Note Note

When displaying and editing maintenance notifications, you can use preconfigured side panels to display context-sensitive data and charts, call Web services, or visualize objects in the SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer.

For more information and prerequisites, see Working with Side Panels in Plant Maintenance .

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