Outlining the Standard Corrective Maintenance Process

A person sitting at a desk with various office equipment and a wireless signal icon, suggesting a remote work or home office setup.

The actions undertaken to process various maintenance procedures, from the occurrence of failure through to corrective maintenance, are as follows:

Notification
Order
Material reservation and goods issue
External service
Confirmation
Integration to logistics, accounting, and HR

A Maintenance Notification helps to describe the technical condition for an object. With the help of the Maintenance Notification, the maintenance crew can describe the status of a malfunction, assign it to the corresponding equipment and set a technical status. In addition, a breakdown of a technical object can be set over a temporary period.

The plant maintenance order is used to plan, execute, and control maintenance on technical assets. The Maintenance order is created either as a result of a malfunction on a technical asset or to carry out preventive maintenance (planned maintenance). The order consists of operations that can hold capacity and component requirements; the operations can be linked by relationships.

A Task List contains all operations that have to be processed to perform a maintenance task. All Operations in the task list can also include materials (for example, spare parts), work instructions, safety measures, or default times.

One Task List can be used in several Maintenance Plans. When the Task List has changed, the change will automatically be transferred to every new Maintenance Object to be called. When Tasks are processed within a maintenance order, each operation can be tracked by a status that is displayed in the Maintenance Order.

Excursion: Corrective Maintenance

The Maintenance Plan is the central object for planned maintenance. It describes the maintenance and inspection tasks to be performed at a maintenance object and can have different intervals and triggers.

The Single Cycle Plan uses one characteristic to schedule a maintenance call. For example, this can be for weeks, months, or kilometers.

The Strategy Plan calls Maintenance objects depending on a strategy. Such strategy can have different intervals - for example, a basic maintenance every week, a medium maintenance every 3 months and a major maintenance every year.

The Multiple Counter Plan derives the scheduling of the maintenance calls from multiple counter. So a maintenance can be call when either the car kilometer reader exceeds 30.000 km or after 1 year.

The Maintenance Calls is an object that is generated by the system for a due maintenance task.

The image is a table that shows the steps involved in a process, the responsible party for each step, and the integration to SAP CO and SAP MM systems. The steps include Transport/Investigation of damage, Creation of notification/forwarding, Capacities check (optional), Creation of order, and Planning resources/releasing. The responsible parties are PM Officer and Planning Unit. The integration to the SAP systems is also shown.

Scenario:

Failure at a Truck:

Engine → Maintenance Notification

Tasks:

Fixing of failure by technical platoon
Usage of spare part
Usage of production tools
Transport to maintenance shop

The image is a table that outlines the steps involved in a process, the responsible parties, and the integration with SAP CO, SAP MM, and SAP FI systems. The steps include Stock transport order/goods issue, Executing order, Confirmation, Return spare part (damaged), and Technical completion. The responsible parties are Disposition, Mechanics, Work center Manager, Disposition, and Technical Platoon. The integration to the SAP systems is also shown.

This figure illustrates the next 5 steps, naming the processor, and the integration.

The image is a process diagram that shows the flow of information and activities related to employee qualifications, job positions, maintenance work scheduling, and updating maintenance orders. The key elements include Qualifications, Employee, Job, Position, Work Center, Maintenance Orders, Maintenance Work Scheduling, Qualification Matching, and Human Resources.

The figure, Work Center and Qualification Integration, shows the Defense and Security specific work center integration. The two fields of Human Resources and Plant Maintenance are linked with each other.

Work center links provide the connection between work centers and other objects within the SAP System. You can link a work center to the following objects:

Cost center
Qualifications
Staffing positions
People