Plant Maintenance and Operations 

Use

You use this business scenario to maintain and operate power plants. To optimize power plant operation, this scenario provides various processes for mapping maintenance strategies, such as preventive or reliability-based maintenance, as well as budgeting, planning, execution, and logging.

Measures for health and safety at work can be managed using the Work Clearance Management and Industrial Health and Safety processes.

Analytics tools are available to optimize the reliability of equipment.

Prerequisites

Business partner	SAP application component	Configuration
Power plant operator	SAP R/3 4.6C	Use the SAP Solution Manager

Process Flow

The business processes run as follows:

       1.      Phase-In Equipment

       2.      Shutdown Management

       3.      Emissions Management

       4.      Industrial Hygiene and Safety

       5.      Change and Configuration Management

       6.      Time-Based Preventive Maintenance

       7.      Condition-Based Maintenance

       8.      Counter-Based Preventive Maintenance

       9.      Breakdown Maintenance

   10.      Corrective Maintenance

   11.      Emergency Maintenance

   12.      Inspection

   13.      Work Clearance Management

   14.      Shift Management

   15.      Dispatching / Scheduling

   16.      Maintenance Cost Budgeting

   17.      Phase-Out Equipment

   18.      Refurbishment Processing