Business Background (PM-WOC-MN)
Plant Maintenance and SAP ArchiveLink
In the PM application component, you can use maintenance notifications (PM notifications) to enter, process and monitor different types of problems. These problems may, for example, involve malfunctions whose causes are related to internal or external factors. SAP ArchiveLink is a cross-application tool which supports you during the processing of maintenance notifications. This tool enables outgoing documents to be stored quickly and efficiently in external content servers.
Shop Papers for Maintenance Notifications
When you process a maintenance notification in the PM application component, you can print and store different shop papers for this maintenance notification. A shop paper is an outgoing document that contains information about the maintenance notification or the contents of the notification. In the PM application component, the following shop papers have been predefined for the different maintenance notification types:
The notification overview contains a summary of the relevant information in a maintenance notification (for example, data relating to the notification header and the items).
The breakdown report contains detailed information about the breakdown data (for example, start of malfunction, end of malfunction, breakdown duration) in a maintenance notification.
The activity report includes the activities from the notification header and the notification items.
An overview of the shop papers which are available for the different maintenance notification types is provided in the table of predefined shop papers under "Technical Realization" in
Storage of Outgoing Documents (PM-WOC-MN).When Can the "Storage of Outgoing Documents" Scenario be Used?
When you create or change a maintenance notification, you can print shop papers for the maintenance notification. 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.
Storage of Outgoing Documents
