Changing a Maintenance Strategy 

Use

It may be necessary for you to change a maintenance strategy, for example, because you find the best solution for scheduling after a certain period has elapsed. In this case, you can change the scheduling parameters or the cycle in which the maintenance packages should be performed.

After the changes have been made, the activities contained in the maintenance plan are performed in the new maintenance cycle. If you change a package from a 1 month cycle to a 2 month cycle in a strategy, all the maintenance tasks assigned to this package are scheduled at 2 month intervals from now on.

You can use a maintenance strategy in several maintenance plans simultaneously. This means that when you change a maintenance strategy, some changes are copied into all the maintenance plans to which this strategy has been assigned. It therefore makes sense to find out to which maintenance plans a maintenance strategy was assigned by performing a where-used list for maintenance strategies before you make any changes.

For more information about the effects of the changes, see Scheduling Parameters.

Procedure

To call up the individual functions in the table, choose Logistics ® Plant Maintenance ® Planned Maintenance ® Maintenance Planning ® Maintenance Plans ® Change and select a strategy.

Function

Menu Path/Pushbutton

What You Should Know

Changing a maintenance strategy header

Goto ® Detail

You can change the strategy description and the scheduling parameters.

To call up the following functions, click twice on Packages in the overview tree.

Adding maintenance packages

Choose New entries.

See Adding Maintenance Packages

Deleting maintenance packages

Edit ® Delete

Before the system deletes maintenance packages, it performs a series of checks to ensure that the packages are not being used in a maintenance task list. If the packages are being used in one or more task lists, the system issues a message in a dialog box informing you of this, and you will not be able to delete the packages.

It is possible to reactivate deleted maintenance packages. However, it is assumed that you have not saved the changes after deletion and have not exited the transaction (see Reactivating Processed Maintenance Packages.

Reactivating deleted, changed and added maintenance packages

  

Reactivating Processed Maintenance Packages

Copying maintenance packages

  

See Copying Maintenance Packages

Displaying a list of all changed maintenance packages

Selection ® All changed entries

 

 

This function is available if you have not saved and have not exited the transaction.

You can undo changes (see Reactivating Processed Maintenance Packages).

Displaying a list of all added maintenance packages

Selection ® All added entries

Displaying a list of all deleted packages

Selection ® Display deleted entries

See also

Deleting a Maintenance Strategy