SAP Plant Maintenance Overview
SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) is an ingredient of the SAP ERP that supports
businesses help and maintains devices and systems. SAP PM Module aim is to plan
and record one of the important assets of business equipment. It collects
equipment’s data and helps to largest use them in order to improve their
valuable life. However, this module’s abilities are not just restricted to
equipment.
SAP PM integrates with other
SAP modules like Materials Management (MM), Quality Management (QM), Production
Planning (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), and
Human Resources (HR).
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SAP PM is composed of
ingredients for the three main activities that help companies to manage systems
or equipment
• Inspection: This verifies the actual status of the systems or
equipment.
• Preventive
maintenance: This helps to support ideal requirements for the system or
equipment.
• Repair: For replacing the systems or equipment.
SAP PM allows you to control
resources demands and perform some repairs automatically. You can use it to
record the problems, plan labor and material activities, and record and
compensation costs.
Applications
of SAP Plant Maintenance
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Feasible for organizations acting in fields of
technical, service, IT, Petrochemical, transportation
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Gather information for equipment’s, buildings,
tools, etc. as well as work centers
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Saving historical data regarding equipment’s
location as well as its maintenance activities
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Possibility of preventive planning based on
time, condition and combinational
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Managing Emergency, Corrective and Preventive
Maintenance
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Managing requests and reasons for breakdowns
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To have the impact of repair costs on both
Material and Asset Value
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Differentiating between plan and actual time
and material consumption for maintenance activities
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Managing equipment codes vs. material codes of
similar tools
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Possibility of integrating production lines
and their production rate, with equipment usage which leads to transition from
time based planning to condition based planning
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Managing criticism and complaints for
guaranty/warranty related products
Advantages
of SAP Plant Maintenance
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Integration with Quality Control dept. by
equipment’s calibration plan
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Integration with Finance dept. by allotment
and allocation of each PM activity cost (spent time, material, service)
accurately to exact related receiving centers (production lines or official
departments)
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Integration with Finance dept. by allocation
of budget to maintenance activities
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Integration with Procurement dept. for
purchasing plan of materials which are to be consumed in upcoming maintenance
activities, instead of using safety stock which are assumed to be consumed for
emergency activities
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Integration with Procurement and Finance dept.
by correlating external service procurement and maintenance activities (both
data and accounting documents)
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Integration with Production and Planning dept.
for capacity planning of work centers based on maintenance activities downtime
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Integration with Project Management dept. by
assigning PM activities to WBS levels
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Integration with Human Resource dept. for employee
assignment to work centers and reporting based on each person’s actual work
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Floating possibility of preventive maintenance
cycles, especially when maintenance activities are postponed because of
inability of stopping production lines for PM activities
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Possibility of defining separate BOM from
production BOM, in order to determine equipment related spare parts, while
taking advantage of both BOMs
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Online reporting of planned services based on
different criteria (work centers, equipment categories, etc.)
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Segregating outstanding PM activities from
accomplished ones, based on equipment, defect reason, responsible person,
activity type, etc.
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Adjustability of predefined activity lists,
based on equipment’s specific parameter (e.g. capacity, engine type)
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Automatic update of maintenance plans based on
modifications in related task lists
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One-time definition of equipment’s activities
regardless of different cycles, and have cycle-specific activities when it’s
time to service
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controlling correct work Start/Finish using
systematic permits (LOTO technique) for high safety required processes
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Possibility of performing on mobile devices
(Equipment information review, repair requests processing, defect recording,
order processing, measurement recording, time confirmation, material
consumption recording), in addition to authorization restriction for field
technicians
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Time saving by shortening the process of
complaints against warranty related materials/costs by means of condition
definition for automatic processing of such complaints, in addition to
connection with vendor/customer accounting documents
·
Breakdown Analysis using important PM indexes
(Mean Time To Repair, Mean Time Between Repair)
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Material consumption analysis for maintenance
activities
SAP PM Module Training
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SAP PM Online Training
course with SAPVITS helps you identify and classify Plant Maintenance from a
day-to-day business perspective. With SAP PM Training Course, you gain deep insights into Plant Maintenance planning,
a method of Plant Maintenance, Modern management of Plant Maintenance,
Functional Locations and equipment, Breakdown Maintenance and Corrective
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