For example:
A strategy has a 1-month, 3-month, and 12-month package. When the maintenance plan is created, preventive maintenance is already taking place in your company. Two weeks ago, the eighth 1-month package was executed. The start in the cycle enables the maintenance plan to start not with the first 1-month package, but with the ninth 1-month package due and the third 3-month package.
Schedule Functions
Factory calendar: For the strategy plan, the factory calendar for the strategy is copied into the scheduling parameters as a default value. It can be changed for each strategy plan.
Cycle start: Start date for calculating planned and call dates.
Call horizon: The call horizon determines when a maintenance call object (for example, a maintenance order) is generated for a waiting maintenance call.
Scheduling period: The scheduling period determines the period of time for which the system generates planned or call dates during scheduling.
Completion requirement: The completion requirement determines that the next maintenance call object is generated when the previous call object has been completed.
Shift factors: The shift factors for the early/delayed confirmation of a maintenance task define the percentage of the shift that should be considered for the next date.
Tolerances for shift factors: The tolerances for early/delayed confirmation define the time period, for which positive or negative differences between actual and planned dates don't affect subsequent scheduling.
Factory calendar: You can use your own calendar if necessary.
Cycle modification factor: You can use the cycle modification factor to change the cycle times for a maintenance strategy individually for each maintenance plan. A cycle modification factor greater than 1 extends the cycle times valid for the strategy, a factor less than 1 reduces them.
Scheduling indicator: The scheduling indicator specifies the type of time-based scheduling involved.
Time-Based Scheduling TypesTime (= based on calendar): The dates are calculated in calendar days.
Time - key-date-based: The dates are always calculated from the cycle start for the respective key date.
Time: Using factory calendar: The dates are calculated in working days.