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Classification of Maintenance Plan
Maintenance planner creates maintenance plans to ensure proper level of preventive care for various assets and avoid costly breakdowns. It is obvious that strategies to maintain similar type of assets under similar operating conditions should be similar. It is also important to track some of the maintenance plans from legal or environmental compliance. For comprehensive review of how assets are performing, it is essential to establish relation between various plans of similar assets that are operated similarly.
A new enhancement delivered by SAP, allows classification of maintenance plans. The new feature is available to all the SAP customers who are having their ECC systems higher than EhP6, The delivery of this new features is done using SAP Notes, ensuring that you do not have to go through an upgrade of your system. It also ensures that your existing maintenance plans could be used without any change.
With this feature you have now a new Classification Type ‘080’ pre-delivered by SAP and it could be used for classification of maintenance plans. As an example, you would like to classify various maintenance plans for various horizontal pumps in your plant. Each of these pumps may have various operating duty cycle, application criticality or compliance category. You may now create a class with class type ‘080’ and add characteristics as shown in an example below to classify maintenance plans for your pumps..
Newly created class can be assigned to the maintenance plans to classify it with required information as shown below. Such assignment can be done with transactions to create or change maintenance plans.
Once plans are classified, user can use IP15 or IP16 list reports to search maintenance plans with defined characteristics and assigned values. This simplified search capabilities allows them to manage Maintenance Plans for various equipment or functional location.
Once a plan is classified, it can be also converted as a template and used to create new plans as a reference to copy the class along with defined characteristics and assigned values.
Please note that the features are presented in SAPGUI screens, but same functionality is additionally available in simplified WEBDYNPRO screens.
You will require Business Function Enterprise Asset Management Part 12 (LOG_EAM_CI_12). Refer note “2648464 – Classification of Maintenance Plans” to get further information about this new functionality. You can also refer SAP help documentation ( Link ) to get further details.
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Good feature, will benefit business by moving to system rather than doing all these classifications in excel. Can use this feature to classify maintenance plans and to find out critical PMs which are defined based on various requirements (operational, statutory etc.).
Nice information's . thanks a lot Hemant for sharing.
regards
Subhrant
Hi Hemant,
We have activated LOG_EAM_CI_12 in our system and able to maintain classification in Maintenance plan however not getting section "Classification data" in T/code IP15 and IP16.
Is there anything we are missing.
Regards,
Amandeep Kumar
Hello Amandeep,
Not sure what may have gone wrong.
All the information to activate this functionality is explained in note and documentation https://help.sap.com/viewer/930f133a36a843318dc3347afe00a9d6/6.18.13/en-US/adf6ac3fb6624eb3b934e145f6aed4d7.html
IF there are issues in implementing notes, you may have to contact support team,
Regards
Hemant
Hello Amandeep,
For activating the business function LOG_EAM_CI_12, Activation of business functions to be followed in the below sequence.
And its corresponding SAP notes & ABAP manual activities for activation of Switches recommended need to be implemented. It is not straight forward and lot of prerequisites / dependencies are there.
Follow the below sequence for sap notes implementation.
Note Number
Sequence order
Comments on Pre requisites
2896879
1
Pre requisite of 2599170
2599170
2
Pre requisite of 2599222 & 2648361
2599222
3
Pre requisite of 2539196& 2648361
2648361
4
Referenced by 2727607
2727607
5
prerequisite of 2635253
2635253
6
Having prerequisite notes as 2651811, 2651862, 2727607
2635252
7
Prerequisite of 2648464
2648464
8
Having prerequisite notes as 2635252, 2635253
Warm Regards,
Anil Raj