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.

•    Production line workers and equipment users, who can use PM to manage maintenance issues more promptly and effectively. For example, preventive maintenance issues can be coordinated with production and unplanned maintenance to ensure that the work is done quickly and doesn't affect production.

•    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.

SAP PM Online Training at SAPVITS

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