Preventive maintenance is most useful application to remain on top of all unplanned activities that you may face while managing your plants and facilities. Maintenance planner needs to maintain master data like Maintenance Plans, Maintenance Item, object list etc. so that consistent preventive maintenance orders could be created within planning period.
Based on the planning guidelines, maintenance planner needs to carefully enter large number of fields repetitively for every individual maintenance object. Any incorrect entries in master data could create orders that are not easily plannable. Managing these master data has been challenging task for most organization. SAP development team and our User group from various regions, has identified how to improve user experience while maintaining these master data.
Result of this joint work is described in Note 2539196. This note provides following improvements.
1. Copy preventive maintenance plans/item from a reference template
2. User specific defaults for preventive maintenance plans
These improvements help maintenance planner to reduce efforts in maintaining this master data and improve quality as well as consistency of the preventive maintenance orders created by scheduling engine.
Copy maintenance plans from the reference template
Maintenance planner are responsible for multiple types of equipment within a plant. Maintenance strategy of each type of equipment guides how the maintenance plans and items should be created for a given type of equipment.
Using this improvement, maintenance planner could take a well-defined maintenance plan and identify it as template maintenance plan. Screen below shows how to declare a maintenance plan as template.
When planner needs to create a new maintenance plan for a new equipment that needs same or similar maintenance plan, these templates could be used as reference to copy information. Planner has flexibility to select which set of data is useful for the new object.
User specific defaults
Maintenance plans has large number of fields. Most organization has evolved guideline based on the common good practices to ensure these fields are populated by planners consistently. New tab for Maintenance plan within EAM_USER transaction helps user to preset these values based on guidelines.
These new improvements would reduce number of clicks and entries that a maintenance planner must do while creating new maintenance plans.
If you think this blog gives you useful information, press like button, share with others and promote use of this improvements within your organization.
Prerequisites:
Read note 2539196 and its dependent notes
Activate business function LOG_EAM_CI_10
You will find more information in Innovation Discovery
Mark master blog as favorite to get information about further improvements that would be released soon!
Based on the planning guidelines, maintenance planner needs to carefully enter large number of fields repetitively for every individual maintenance object. Any incorrect entries in master data could create orders that are not easily plannable. Managing these master data has been challenging task for most organization. SAP development team and our User group from various regions, has identified how to improve user experience while maintaining these master data.
Result of this joint work is described in Note 2539196. This note provides following improvements.
1. Copy preventive maintenance plans/item from a reference template
2. User specific defaults for preventive maintenance plans
These improvements help maintenance planner to reduce efforts in maintaining this master data and improve quality as well as consistency of the preventive maintenance orders created by scheduling engine.
Copy maintenance plans from the reference template
Maintenance planner are responsible for multiple types of equipment within a plant. Maintenance strategy of each type of equipment guides how the maintenance plans and items should be created for a given type of equipment.
Using this improvement, maintenance planner could take a well-defined maintenance plan and identify it as template maintenance plan. Screen below shows how to declare a maintenance plan as template.
When planner needs to create a new maintenance plan for a new equipment that needs same or similar maintenance plan, these templates could be used as reference to copy information. Planner has flexibility to select which set of data is useful for the new object.
User specific defaults
Maintenance plans has large number of fields. Most organization has evolved guideline based on the common good practices to ensure these fields are populated by planners consistently. New tab for Maintenance plan within EAM_USER transaction helps user to preset these values based on guidelines.
These new improvements would reduce number of clicks and entries that a maintenance planner must do while creating new maintenance plans.
If you think this blog gives you useful information, press like button, share with others and promote use of this improvements within your organization.
Prerequisites:
Read note 2539196 and its dependent notes
Activate business function LOG_EAM_CI_10
You will find more information in Innovation Discovery
Mark master blog as favorite to get information about further improvements that would be released soon!
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