SAP Plant Maintenance
Plant Maintenance Defined
Plant maintenance is the service and repair of assets and equipment. During normal operations, plant equipment will experience wear and tear that require maintenance. This can include scheduled or non-scheduled maintenance. Types of maintenance can include preventative, predictive, corrective, and shutdown maintenance. Master data is essential for equipment, locations, catalogs, bill of materials, and counters like wear and tear. Automation allows a plant to identify, document, manage, and execute maintenance to streamline the process while managing labor and recording costs.
SAP Plant Maintenance
Key Components of SAP Plant Maintenance include:
- Inspection: Reviewing the condition of the systems or equipment.
- Preventive Maintenance: Maintaining ideal conditions of the systems or equipment.
- Repair: Restoring the systems or equipment.
Plant Maintenance Defined
Plant maintenance is the service and repair of assets and equipment. During normal operations, plant equipment will experience wear and tear that require maintenance. This can include scheduled or non-scheduled maintenance. Types of maintenance can include preventative, predictive, corrective, and shutdown maintenance. Master data is essential for equipment, locations, catalogs, bill of materials, and counters like wear and tear. Automation allows a plant to identify, document, manage, and execute maintenance to streamline the process while managing labor and recording costs.
SAP Plant Maintenance
Key Components of SAP Plant Maintenance include:
- Inspection: Reviewing the condition of the systems or equipment.
- Preventive Maintenance: Maintaining ideal conditions of the systems or equipment.
- Repair: Restoring the systems or equipment.
Four groups of users that benefit from plant maintenance are:
- Operations Managers: Obtain metrics, improve decision making, and plan budgeting.
- Production Line Workers: Manage maintenance issues promptly and effectively.
- Maintenance Personnel: Improve work processes and efficiency by reviewing maintenance records.
- Purchasing Departments: Purchase parts and services.
3 goals are to:
- Maximize availability of plant operations through planned maintenance.
- Extend the life span of the plant, equipment, and machinery by minimizing the wear and tear.
- Reduce the cost of down time due to improper maintenance.
The importance of plant maintenance is to keep machinery, parts, and equipment in good operating condition to avoid any production downtime. Keeping the maintenance at top of mind can help control expenses and keep accurate budgeting.
Vendor partners to support your plant maintenance include: Thales, Forcam, and SAP .
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders are:
- Improve the Efficiency of Your SAP Plant Maintenance Operations by Automating Master Data Processes. This whitepaper outlines an approach to improve operation efficiency through SAP data management.
- How to Use Data Collection to Run a Remote Warehouse. Robert Brice explains how to rethink traditional approaches to data collection and process operations in your
- Discover SAP’s Approach to Intelligent Asset Management: The convergence of EAM and APM. Explore business capabilities and asset lifecycle management needs.
1259 results
-
Ask the FI/CO Expert: How to Manage Customizing Activities Directly in Production Without Using Transports
In response to a reader’s question, the author explains how to add a new G/L account to the financial statement version directly in the development system. Two confusing vocabulary words, “current settings” and “message control,” have an impact on this everyday task. Key Concept This month Nathan Genez takes a turn answering the Ask...…
-
A Roadmap to Effective Business Process Management
ManagerThis guide to an enterprise-wide business process management (BPM) strategy focuses on the features in SAP Solution Manager that you can use for the four phases of BPM. It also highlights the use of solution maps and third-party products (such as ARIS, HP Quality Center, and HP QuickTest Professional) that have standard integration adapters for...…
-
A Step-by-Step Setup Guide to SAP Solution Manager Adapter for SAP Quality Center by HP: Part 2
ManagerIn the second half of this series on setting up the integration between SAP Solution Manager and SAP Quality Center by HP, find out how to set up and finalize the connection between the two systems. Key Concept The integration between SAP Solution Manager and SAP Quality Center by HP enables quality assurance teams to...…
-
Control the Request for Change Status Changes Based on the Related Change Documents Status
ManagerLearn how to control the status change of a request for change based on the status of the lower-level documents — the related change documents included in the request for change scope. Key Concept A request for change is a formal proposal for a change in one or more configuration items, or to services, procedures,...…
-
Use Business Blueprints to Their Highest Potential for a Successful Implementation
ManagerLearn how proper use of the Business Process Repository and Business Blueprint can help set your organization on the course for a successful implementation and establish a foundation for effective support. Explore how to set your project scope and create relationships between scope items and objects to support traceability and transparency in change management. Key...…
-
A Checklist for an SAP Solution Manager System Audit
Manager/GRCSAP Solution Manager’s features make it a challenging candidate for a system audit and review. Use this matrix to establish your approach to auditing SAP Solution Manager. Key Concept Most SAP applications are easy to classify as either transactional or analytical applications, which makes them relatively simple to audit. However, SAP Solution Manager is not...…
-
Use SAP Solution Manager’s Extensive Reporting Capabilities to Ensure Consistent Performance Across Your System Landscape Through Proactive Monitoring
SAP/Solution Manager Learn about SAP Solution Manager 4.0’s reporting options and how to use them to ensure consistent performance across your system landscape. Key Concept SAP Solution Manager 4.0 includes a wide range of reporting options for generating technical and administrative information about your system landscape, including SAP EarlyWatch Alert Reporting, Service Reporting, EarlyWatch Alert...…
-
Use Multiple FI Functions to Manage and Calculate Accounts Receivable Item Interest on an Ad Hoc Basis
Have you ever asked the following question: Do you charge interest on overdue receivables? Was the reply that you received similar to this response: Not always, but we want the ability to do so at any given time. With some behind-the-scenes configuration across a few areas of the FI modules within SAP ERP and some...…
-
How Companies Use Service Management to Increase Revenue and Retain Customers
Find out how companies are using different service delivery models — including service contracts and product service letters — to transform their service processes to maximize service revenues. In addition, take a look at service billing using CRM Billing and contract entitlements before and after service is provided. Key Concept Service order management allows users...…
-
SAP CRM Intellectual Property Management: Effectively Manage Intellectual Property Sales with License Sales Contracts
Learn about the unique characteristics of license sales contracts, which are used to sell intellectual property rights in SAP CRM-Intellectual Property Management. Key Concept SAP CRM-Intellectual Property Management’s (IPM) license sales contract helps companies manage the sale of intellectual property (IP) rights by capturing contractual information such as the rights being sold, fees being charged...…
Your request has been successfully sent