The following blog is written by Dave Louie – Senior Education Consultant in the North America SAP Education Delivery Organization. Dave specializes in the areas of Plant Maintenance (PM), Project System (PS) and Materials Management (MM). He is also a subject matter expert in the areas of Suppler Relationship Management (SRM). Dave has 15 years of SAP experience and is one of the authors for the Plant Maintenance certification exam. He is certified in Plant Maintenance (Associate level) and Materials Management (Professional level). Dave can be contacted via email at dave.louie@sap.com.
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Customers need to have a more flexible way to manage roads, power lines, cables, etc. other than using the Functional Location technical object. However, functional location can’t completely satisfy the requirements and doesn’t offer the flexibilities which required managing this type of objects. This type of object sometime will extend beyond a predefined area(s) such as a single technical object (functional location/equipment) or a hierarchal structure.
Linear Asset Management enables a company to describe, display, and manages linear assets such as pipelines, roads, railway tracks, power lines and cables. Linear assets are technical systems with a linear infrastructure whose condition and properties can vary from section to section (dynamic segmentation). It is a special type of asset that has an associated length dimension. This dimension is represented by means of start and end points, or by specifying the asset length.
Linear assets are created as technical objects (functional locations/equipment) within Plant Maintenance. Linear data is stored within the technical object master data under the “Location” tab. Regular and preventive maintenance tasks can be carried out with maintenance orders. Defects or damages can be monitored by using start point, end points, and offset. Linear data fields have been added to the “Location” tab of maintenance notification and work order. It is also reflected in the operation of the work order.
In Customizing, you need to define a technical object category (for functional locations and equipment) and a view profile containing the sub screens for linear asset management. The objects Function Locations, Equipment, and Measuring Points also have been enhanced with linear data fields.
SAP Customizing → Plant Maintenance and Customer Service → Master Data in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service → Technical Objects → Linear Asset Management
Additional information on Linear Asset Management can be found in SAP Education training class DPM65 – Enhancements in EAM SAP ECC 6.0 EhP 1 -5 and online training course DPM65r.
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