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 Work Center

Definition

In the Plant Maintenance (PM) application component, the following work centers exist:

  • Main work center

  • Performing work center

  • Work center as production machine

The work centers are distinguished by work center type (for example, production work center, maintenance work center). The work center type determines which data can be maintained in the master record for the work center.

The Main Work Center

The main work center usually represents one person or a department, responsible for ensuring that the maintenance work in an order is executed by the work centers performing the individual operations.

The Performing Work Center

The performing work center usually represents one person or a group of people who perform the maintenance work in the operations of an order.

The Work Center as Production Machine

For Plant Maintenance, this work center represents the reference object for a maintenance order: The work center can also be maintained, that is, the maintenance work described in the order operation can be performed on the work center itself.

At the same time, in Production, this work center represents a machine. Therefore, the work center can also manufacture products.

Note Note

In the system, the performing work center and work center as production machine are both simply called "work center".

End of the note.

Use

The Main Work Center

The main work center must be entered in the order header, whereupon its master data is copied into the order as a default.

During internal processing, the main work center is also used as a default for the performing work center.

In addition to the main work center, you can create a specific employee, who has been represented in the Human Resources (HR) component with their own master record, as Person responsible .

The Performing Work Center

In addition to the main work center, you can create a specific employee, who has been represented in the Human Resources (HR) component with their own master record, as Person responsible . You can also assign other employees to an operation in the Requirement assignment .

The performing work center is managed in the operation data for the order. It is proposed as a performing work center for the operations in the order. Since capacities are assigned to the performing work center and costs assigned using the activity type, the performing work center is required primarily for capacity planning, scheduling and cost determination.

It is also possible to create operations without entering a performing work center. A control key, which is not linked to a cost center or an activity type, must then be assigned to these operations. It may be that the operations are simply used for documentation purposes, for example, operations that only contain safety instructions or specifications for the production/resources tools to be used. Operations without a specified performing work center are also used in external processing.

The Work Center as Production Machine

The work center as production machine is managed in the location data for the technical object of an order. It is only entered if the technical object at which maintenance work should be executed is a machine in Production.

Since machine capacities are assigned to the work center as production machines, the work center as production machine is required primarily for capacity planning of the machine, for example, non-operational periods for the machine must be planned as effectively as possible.

For more information about the work center in Production, see Work Center .