Business Background (PM-WOC-MO)
Plant Maintenance and SAP ArchiveLink
In the PM application component, you can use maintenance orders (PM orders) to document maintenance tasks. You use the maintenance order to plan tasks in detail, monitor their execution, then enter and settle the costs which arise from the tasks. SAP ArchiveLink is a cross-application tool which supports you during the processing of maintenance orders. This tool enables outgoing documents to be stored quickly and efficiently in external content servers.
Shop Papers for Maintenance Orders
When you process a maintenance order in the PM application component, you can print and store different shop papers for this maintenance order. A shop paper is an outgoing document that contains information about the maintenance order or the contents of the order. In the PM application component, the following shop papers have been predefined for the maintenance orders:
The operation control ticket provides the maintenance employee responsible with a complete overview of the maintenance order. It also contains information about permits.
The job ticket is a paper that accompanies the order and provides the manual worker performing it with a complete overview of the order.
The material staging list shows the warehouse clerk which materials have been scheduled for each operation in this order.
Material withdrawal slips authorize the manual worker responsible to withdraw the materials required for the order from the warehouse. A material withdrawal slip is printed for each material component.
Time tickets are only printed for operations where indicated to by the control key. The number of time tickets specified per operation is then printed for each manual worker involved with the order. The worker records on the ticket the time that was required to perform the operation.
The employee responsible enters the technical report and, where necessary, relevant measurement and/or counter readings on the completion confirmation slip.
A list of technical objects (equipment or functional locations) which have been assigned to the maintenance order.
In the system, you can set which shop papers are available for which order types.
When Can the "Storage of Outgoing Documents" Scenario be Used?
When you create or change a maintenance order, you can print shop papers for the maintenance order. Depending on the storage mode that you have defined for shop papers, you can use the print function to select one of the following output modes:
When you store a shop paper, the system stores the document in the SAP ArchiveLink. As soon as a shop paper is stored, you can display it using the SAP ArchiveLink Viewer.