Maintenance Events and Revisions
In general, the terms revision and maintenance event both refer to a period of time during which several maintenance activities need to be planned and executed together on one or more technical objects. In some cases, it may be necessary to temporarily shut down a technical object so that service or maintenance work can be performed.
To facilitate the planning of the maintenance activities, you can create an object called a revision or maintenance event and, for example, assign maintenance orders to it.
The term Revision is used if you create and manage this object in SAP GUI.
Via transactions IWR1 (standard), OIOB (simplified) or WPS1 (WPS-controlled).
- The term Maintenance Event is used if you create and manage this object in the SAP Fiori app Manage Maintenance Planning Buckets.
When you create a maintenance event using the Manage Maintenance Planning Buckets app, you need to select a Maintenance Event Type, when you create a revision via SAP GUI you need to select a Revision Type.
Maintenance Event Types and Revision Types are defined in a common Customizing table. In Customizing both are referred to as Revision Types. The following revision types are available:
- WPS-Controlled (Maintenance Event Builder)
- Not WPS-Controlled
- Planning Bucket
- Planning Bucket with Administrative Order
Maintenance Events in Resource Scheduling and other Apps
Maintenance Events and Revisions are part of standard SAP S/4HANA - so they are available as additional fields (filters) in the apps of Resource Scheduling (RSH) as well as in a number of standard apps - and help to organize and structure your work load.
For example, the fields can be used in the following apps:
- Resource Scheduling for Maintenance Planners (RSH)
- Manage Work Center Utilization (RSH)
- Manage Maintenance Schedule for Assets (RSH)
- Maintenance Scheduling Board (RSH)
- Maintenance Planning Overview (standard S/4HANA)
- Find Maintenance Orders (standard S/4HANA)
Checking Maintenance Schedule for Assets
The Manage Maintenance Schedule for Assets app allows you to visualize an asset in its hierarchical structure. You can graphically view the maintenance work planned for the asset and all its sub-assets and show maintenance events to easily find time periods during which the asset is available for maintenance.
Activate one of the columns Technical Object, Functional Location or Equipment - just as in app Resource Scheduling for Maintenance Planners.