Describing Maintenance Plans

In a company, it's necessary to check which machines and plants must be checked on a time or performance basis.

Maintenance Plans Overview

A maintenance plan can consist of several maintenance items. In this case, an order (or notification or service entry sheet) is created for each maintenance item.

For example, in a maintenance plan, you must maintain different components of a water pump. You can create a maintenance item for the pump itself, another item for the electric motor, and a third for the pump gears. Each maintenance item has its own task list. All of the items are part of the same maintenance plan and have the same times (the same scheduling data).

As of SAP S/4HANA 2023 you can assign a list of objects also in the Fiori Launchpad to a maintenance item using the Manage Maintenance Items app. The objects that can be assigned are: Functional location, Equipment and Assembly.

As of SAP S/4HANA 2023 a new authorization object Maintenance Plan Category (I_MPTYP) is available in the apps Manage Maintenance Plans (F5325) andManage Maintenance Items (F5356). It has the field Activity (ACTVT) with values Add/Create, Change, Display, Delete, Display change docs, Display value help.

When you view the call objects for a maintenance item in the Manage Maintenance Items app (F5356), you can view the completion date and time, scheduled start date and time, scheduled end date and time, basic start date and time, basic end date and time, required start date and time, and required end date and time in your local user time zone. The system converts the system time zone into the time zone of the current user as set in the SAP Fiori Launchpad and the browser.