SAP Plant Maintenance – Overview
SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) application component provides an organization
with a tool for all maintenance activities to be performed. All the activities
that are performed under maintenance are interconnected and hence this module
is closely integrated with other modules - Production Planning, Material
Management, and Sales and Distribution.
Using SAP PM, you can
perform automatic repairs and facilitate maintenance requests in an
organization. It allows you to record problems in SAP system, plan labor and
material activities, and to record and settle the cost.
In an organization, you
can identify, document, manage problems and perform enterprise asset management
for any required assets.
To perform these
activities, Plant Maintenance contains the following sub modules
• Management of technical objects and equipment
master record.
• Planning of maintenance task.
• Manage workflow notifications and work
orders under maintenance order management.
Key Functions of SAP Plant Maintenance
Following activities are
performed under Plant Maintenance
Inspection
Inspection is done to
check the actual condition of a technical system.
Preventive Maintenance
Preventive maintenance
is used to maintain high availability of the technical system. It includes
maintenance planning and work scheduling activities for technical objects.
Repair
Repair involves all
measures that can be performed to restore the ideal condition. Repair process
can be performed at many planning stages - like work scheduling, resource
planning and initial costing, etc. You can respond immediately w.r.t to a
damage events causing production shutdown. You can create required purchase
requisition and processed work orders to reduce the downtime.
SAP PM Integration with Other SAP Modules
In SAP PM, you can
integrate with other modules such as Material Management, Production Planning,
Personnel Management, and Sales and Distribution. These modules are used to
keep the current data as per the requirement in Plant Maintenance and are
initiated automatically to maintain the current data in the system.
Following are the key
modules in which integration is performed with SAP Plant Maintenance
• SAP Material Management
• SAP Sales and Distribution
• SAP Personnel Management
• SAP Controlling
• SAP Production Planning
Benefits of SAP Plant Maintenance
There are generally four
groups of users that benefit most from SAP PM
•
Maintenance and operations managers, who can use PM to obtain metrics on
equipment performance or maintenance deployments. They can use PM to improve
maintenance decision-making by running reports on work that's planned, in the
process, or completed. Management can also budget for equipment replenishment
by having accurate and up-to-date data on equipment maintenance history and
relative maintenance costs.
•
Maintenance personnel and technicians, who can use PM to improve work
processes and efficiency, For example, technicians can use PM to review
maintenance records.
•
Purchasing departments, who can use PM to manage and execute the
purchase of non-stock spare parts and services needed for maintenance work.
These groups are generally integrated with maintenance groups.
Everything in SAP PM
revolves around master data, which stored in and manipulated in centralized
master data tables. Master data types in PM include equipment, functional
location, class (specifications for objects), characteristics, task lists,
catalog (data about maintenance history in codes), construction types
(materials BOMs), measuring points, and counters (captured data about equipment
use, such as wear and tear or consumption). The master data is used to create
transactional data in the SAP ECC, such as creating a maintenance record in PM,
purchase order in MM, production order in PP, or sales order in SD.
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