Maintenance Planning (CS-AG/PM-PRM-MP)
Purpose
Ensuring a high availability of objects in the long term is an important part of Plant Maintenance. Planned maintenance is used to avoid system breakdowns or the breakdown of other objects, which - in addition to the repair costs - often result in much higher costs subsequently owing to production breakdown.
There are many benefits in using planned maintenance within your company. It is the generic term for inspections, preventive maintenance and planned repairs, for which the time and scope of the work can be planned in advance.
In addition to internal company aspects for planned maintenance, external factors should also be considered. An increasing number of conditions set by legislative bodies demand more stringent requirements on planned monitoring and maintenance of objects. External requirements can be:
Manufacturer recommendations
The manufacturer of your technical objects may recommend certain procedures to ensure that the objects always function optimally.
Legal requirements
There may be labor protection laws or laws concerning the safety of objects which require you to maintain your technical system on a regular basis.
Environmental requirements
Effective planned maintenance can also help to prevent breakdowns which could lead to environmental hazards.
Another reason for planned maintenance is the need for quality assurance, since, for example, the quality of products manufactured at a technical system is substantially affected by the operating condition of the production plant.
It is also often more cost-effective to maintain objects regularly, and therefore prevent a much more expensive breakdown. You can determine the data required for this using past data supplied by the system.
Integration
The
Maintenance Planning
component is integrated with the following components and sub-components of the SAP System:
Plant Maintenance
application component
Maintenance task lists
Maintenance orders
Maintenance notifications
Work clearance management
Customer Service
application component
Service orders
Service notifications
Materials Management
application component
Service procurement
Service entry sheets
Quality Management
application component
Inspection characteristics
Inspection lots
Sales and Distribution
application component
Outline agreements
Features
You can use maintenance plans to describe dates and the extent of preventive and inspection maintenance tasks which can be planned for technical objects. You can ensure that your technical objects are always maintained on time and in this way, ensure that they function optimally.
Generation of Maintenance Call Objects
The system generates maintenance call objects during the scheduling process. The following maintenance call objects are available in the overview:
For rough planning of tasks
PM notification
Service notification
For detailed planning of tasks
PM order
Service order
For detailed planning of tasks and history for the damage processed in the notification:
Maintenance notification and maintenance order simultaneously
Service notification and service order simultaneously
For customer service:
Maintenance plans with reference to an outline agreement
For Quality Management using the link to QM inspection characteristics:
Inspection lots
For service procurement in purchasing:
Service entry sheets
Additional Functions
Scheduling overview and simulation
In a graphic as a Gantt diagram
As a table in the
SAP List Viewer
As a table in an additional navigation tree
List with calculated maintenance dates
Cost display for maintenance plans
Archiving of maintenance plans
Split-Level Maintenance
One of the most significant advantages offered by the
Plant Maintenance
application component is the option of split-level maintenance. You can create a maintenance plan, and consequently also the maintenance call objects, for example, at the following levels:
Pieces of equipment
Functional locations
Materials
Material and serial numbers
Assemblies
The possibility of split-level maintenance allows you to plan and perform maintenance tasks for the following objects:
An individual piece of equipment which operates independently of other equipment (for example, a vehicle)
Functional locations (for example, a production line) which may comprise several pieces of equipment
Thereby you can maintain the whole functional location, rather than the independent technical objects it comprises.
An assembly within a piece of equipment (for example, a pump motor)
Materials
Material and serial numbers