To minimize downtimes and maintenance costs, the technical systems in a company are inspected and maintained regularly. You want to understand the plans that can help you manage this maintenance. For this reason, you need to understand single cycle plans (time based) and strategy plans (time based).
Single cycle plans are used to manage the maintenance of machines and operational systems, which are always inspected and/or maintained in the same way at fixed intervals.
In this plan, the same activity is executed at regular intervals.
Some examples of a single cycle plans are as follows:
Annual inspection of fire extinguishers
Technical inspection every two years
Inspection of boilers every six years, as per pressure vessel regulations
The maintenance plan is composed of scheduling data and maintenance items, and is used for automatically generating maintenance call objects such as order, notification, and service entry sheet.
The scheduling data contains the following information:
Cycle or maintenance intervals
Scheduling parameters for fine-tuning scheduling
List of planned dates and call dates
A maintenance item contains the following information:
Planning data (for example, maintenance planning plant, maintenance planner group, order type, and so on)
Reference object
Task list (optional)
A maintenance plan can have one or more maintenance items. For example, in pump maintenance, one maintenance item refers to the pump transmission with the corresponding task list. Another maintenance item refers to the pump motor with the corresponding task list.
A task list is assigned to a maintenance item. The system calculates the times when the maintenance plan is scheduled.
In the case of a single cycle plan, the complete task list is always due.
How to Create a Single-Cycle Plan
