Grid Maintenance and Operations 

Use

You use this business scenario to maintain and operate transmission and distribution grids. This scenario provides various maintenance strategies that allows the grids to function reliably at the lowest possible costs. This includes preventive or reliability-based maintenance, as well as detailed planning of the maintenance budget.

You can also integrate external systems such as SCADA or outage management systems into the processes. The Work Clearance Management process supports activities in safety-critical areas.

Prerequisites

Business partners	SAP application component	Configuration
Transmission company and distributor	SAP R/3 4.6C	Use the SAP Solution Manager

Process Flow

The business processes run as follows:

       1.      Phase-In Equipment

       2.      Time-Based Preventive Maintenance

       3.      Counter-Based Preventive Maintenance

       4.      Condition-Based Maintenance

       5.      Corrective Maintenance

       6.      Breakdown Maintenance

       7.      Emergency Maintenance

       8.      Inspection

       9.      Work Clearance Management

   10.      Phase-Out Equipment

   11.      Refurbishment Processing

   12.      Maintenance Cost Budgeting (based on SAP NetWeaver 04 and SAP ECC 5.0)