A strategic business approach that applies a set of business and IT solutions in support of collaborative creation, management and use of product definition information across the extended enterprise from concept to end of life – integrating people, processes,business systems, and information. Product Life cycle consists of three interacting life cycles in the organization: product definition, production definition and operational support.

Overview of the Business Processes:

Overview of my SAP PLM with the key functional areas:

• Program and project management
• Life-Cycle Data Management
• Life-Cycle Collaboration
• Enterprise asset management
• Quality management
• Environment, Health & Safety

Document Management Functions:

• Using the document info record
• Object links to other SAP R/3 objects
• Managing original files
• Storage of Original files in secure areas
• CAD-integration
• Document distribution
• Customizing
• Internet Scenarios

Configuring, maintaining and using the system to classify objects:

• Characteristics maintenance
• Class maintenance
• Object classification
• Options for using the classification system to find objects
• Class hierarchies and characteristic inheritance
• Object dependencies in classification
• Customizing, including maintaining class types and classifiable object types
• Applications of classification

Complex Plant Maintenance projects (such as shutdowns or revisions) in Enterprise Asset Management:

• Course Content Planning & budgeting Scheduling & capacity planning
• Execution Response to changes Completion and analysis Notes

Plant Maintenance in Enterprise Asset Management and SAP solution portfolio:

• Organization of Plant Maintenance
• Technical objects
• Breakdown maintenance
• Corrective maintenance
• Spare parts
• Preventive maintenance (maintenance plan)
• Project-oriented maintenance (short overview)
• Work clearance management (short overview)
• Mobile solutions (short overview)
• Reporting and analysis

Structuring and Managing Technical Objects:

• Structuring of Functional Locations
• Using, Classifying and Customizing Equipment
• Usage of Maintenance Bills of Materials
• Customizing for Bills of Material
• Working with and customizing Serial Numbers
• Measuring Points and Counters
• Object Services
• Partners and Addresses
• Status Management
• Warranties

Schedule Work and Maintenance Planning

• Task List Management & Customizing
• Single Cycle Maintenance Planning
• Maintenance Planning with Strategy: Time-Based Maintenance Strategy
• Strategy Plan Scheduling (Time-Based)
• Maintenance Planning with Strategy: Performance-Based
• Maintenance Plan Scheduling (Performance-Based)
• Maintenance Planning with Cycles of Different Dimensions
• Maintenance-Plan-Based Sales of Services
• Condition-Based Maintenance
• Maintenance-Plan-Based Test Equipment Management

Customizing settings for Maintenance Processing.

• User Interface: SAP GUI, Enterprise Portal, Mobile Solutions
• Notification Category and Type
• Configuration of the Notification Interface
• Priorities, Field Selection and Object Information
• Catalogs and Catalog Profiles
• Setting up an Order Type, Work Center, Capacity Planning
• Scheduling, Permits, Workflows, Printing
• Material Availability Check
• Completion Confirmation
• CATS

Integration between Maintenance Order Processes and Financial and Management Accounting

• Cost flow in the maintenance process (estimated costs, planned costs, actual costs)
• Period end closing process for maintenance orders including settlement
• Budgeting and cost planning (individual budgets, maintenance projects, investments, maintenance budgets)
• Plant Maintenance Information System (info structure, update)
• Key figures and queries in Business Information Warehouse (BW) relevant to Plant Maintenance

Work Clearance Management:

• Overview of Work Clearance Management
• Asset Structuring
• Work Clearance Management Architecture
• Approval and Permit Process
• Lockout / Tagout Process
• Integration of WCM with Maintenance Processing
• Further functions
• Customizing