Efficient plant maintenance is vital to a company’s ability to optimize and harmonize its production processes. For companies using SAP’s R/3 system, the effective implementation and use of the Plant Maintenance (PM) component represents a strategy with considerable practical benefits.

This course offers a clear introduction to this small but sophisticated component and provides a highly practical guide to implementing PM. Beginning with an examination of the key business processes underlying PM functionality, the Course goes on to cover all the crucial aspects of maintenance planning and execution in R/3. Particular attention is given to integrating plant maintenance with a company’s natural process flow.

Classifying Plant Maintenance from a Business perspective

• Definitions
• Traditional forms of Organization in Plant Maintenance
• Planning in Plant Maintenance
• Plant Maintenance Methods
• Benchmarking in Plant Maintenance based on key performance
• Modern Plant Maintenance management

Getting Started with Release 4.6

• The PM menu with easy access
• The business workplace
• Support Line Feedback as in interface to SAP
• PM Documentation in the SAP Library

Objects in R/3 PM

• Managing Technical Objects
• Functional Locations and equipment
• Using other Logistics master data in PM
• Measuring points and counters
• PM Work Centers
• Maintenance Task lists and maintenance plans
• Maintenance Notifications
• Maintenance Orders

BP: Breakdown Maintenance and Corrective Maintenance

• Tasks of the PM Technician
• Tasks of the PM Planner
• Tasks of the Controller

BP: Planned Maintenance

• Tasks of the PM Technician
• Tasks of the PM Planner
• Tasks of the Controller

Integrative Aspects

• General
• Integration of MM
• Integration Production Planning
• Integration of Quality Management
• Integration of Project Systems
• Integration of Investment Management
• Integration of Controlling
• Integration of Asset Accounting
• Integration of Human Resources

Interfaces to Non-SAP Systems

• Interface to process control systems
  and building control systems
• Interfaces to CAD systems