Preventative Maintenance
Preventative Maintenance
MAINTENANCE
Introduction
Preventative Maintenance Plans are used to create
reoccurring Work Orders. SAP Preventative
Maintenance Plans consist of:
• Plans
• Maintenance Items
• Task Lists
• Operations
• Scheduling Parameters
Terminology
• Strategy - Is the plan weekly, monthly, yearly, or hourly?
• Start of Cycle - Last time this Work Order was done.
• Shift Factor - Allows you to move the next scheduled PM based on
completion date.
• Call Horizon - Specifies when an Order should be generated with
reference to a calculated due date. This allows for planning.
• Object List – Actual Functional Location and/or Equipment Stops on
a route.
• Maintenance Items – A template that Work Orders are created from.
• Task List - Where operations are maintained and the frequency
cycles are determined.
• Operations - Step by Step instructions, Job Duration, and Resources
per Work Order. Different frequencies allowed on same Task List.
Five Rules to Create a PM
1 Determine Strategy
– Due date and frequency
– Does a plan already exist with this strategy that fits needs?
2 Determine the Shift Factors
– Based on completion date
– Based on calendar date
3 Determine the Maintenance Item including Task List
– Can an existing task list be used?
– Create a new task list?
4 Determine if there will be an Object List
5 Determine Scheduling
– Start of Cycle with proper due dates
– Call Horizon
PLANS
• Consists of:
– Operations
– Maintenance Strategy
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Yearly
– Maintenance Packages
• A Maintenance Package is a list of frequencies
available to a Strategy.
OPERATIONS
To hide/unhide the
Plan Header
information
Create additional
maintenance items
Return to Plan Header
Scheduling
Parameters tab
Save the Plan
Save
Schedule the Plan
MAINT ITEMS- Work Order template and Object List EACH ITEM CREATES A WORK ORDER.
THE OBJECT LIST CONTAINS THE
DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL LOCATIONS
WHERE WORK IS TO BE DONE.
STRATEGY
DEFINES THE FREQUENCY AT WHICH SPECIFIC OPERATIONS ARE EXECUTED.
SCHEDULE THE PLAN DETERMINES THE START OF CYCLE BASED ON THE LAST TIME THE WORK ORDER WAS DONE.
ALLOWS NEXT PRODUCED WORK ORDER TO CHANGE BASED UPON COMPLETION. DETERMINES
WHEN THE WORK ORDER SHOULD BE GENERATED TO MEET THE DUE DATE.