Use

You can use shift notes and shift reports to enter and evaluate special events that occur within a shift for technical objects.

You use a shift note to create comments about a person, machine, or other special points that cannot be entered elsewhere in the system.

The person responsible for a shift generates a shift report manually at the end of a shift, as a PDF document, as a way of documenting and subsequently evaluating all the confirmations and shift notes entered during the shift, for example.

You can also include the following objects in the shift report:

There are two new authorization objects for controlling which activities a user can perform for shift reports:

The following authorization objects are also available for shift notes and shift reports:

For more information, see Shift Reports and Shift Notes .

Prerequisites

You have defined the Customizing settings for shift notes and shift reports for technical objects, under  Plant Maintenance and Customer Service Maintenance and Service Processing Shift Reports and Shift Notes.