Plant Maintenance

This presentation document provides a comprehensive guide to SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM). SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is a comprehensive SAP solution designed to manage an organization’s physical assets throughout their lifecycle, from acquisition to retirement. It encompasses various strategies and processes for maintaining assets, aiming to optimize asset performance, minimize downtime, and control maintenance costs. EAM integrates with other SAP modules to provide a holistic approach to asset management.

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Preventive Maintenance (PM) in SAP Plant Maintenance is a systematic approach to equipment servicing that aims to reduce failures and downtime while improving return on investment and productivity. This quick intro document explores the fundamental concepts, components, and implementation of preventive maintenance within the SAP ecosystem. The document elucidates the importance of PM, its core elements, and the intricate processes involved in creating and managing maintenance plans. It provides insights into the various types of maintenance strategies, scheduling parameters, and key transactions, offering a clear understanding of how preventive maintenance functions within SAP to optimize equipment performance and streamline maintenance operations.

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This ppt presentation, prepared for Oil&Gas Industry company, provides an overview of SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), an integrated module within the SAP ERP system for managing maintenance operations. The document covers SAP PM functionality including master data, work order management, preventive maintenance, and integration with materials management and financial accounting.

List of presentation topics covered for SAP Plant Maintenance module are:

• SAP PM Overview: Outlines the benefits of SAP PM such as industry best practices, integration, improved information quality, and reduced document flow.
• Master Data: Discusses key PM master data objects like functional locations, equipment, bill of materials, work centers, classifications, characteristics, and measuring points. These define the maintenance objects and attributes.
• Work Order Management: Explains the processes for creating notifications and work orders, planning, scheduling, executing, settling costs, and reporting on maintenance activities.
• Preventive Maintenance: Describes setting up maintenance strategies, plans, and items to schedule and perform preventive maintenance.
• Integration: Highlights integration of PM with Materials Management for material requirements planning and procurement and with Finance for capturing actual costs.

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This document provides a comprehensive business user guide and training manual for Predictive Maintenance functionality in the SAP S/4HANA system. It covers the end-to-end predictive maintenance process flow, explaining how to leverage IoT-connected assets to anticipate equipment failures and minimize costly downtime through data-driven insights.

List of content covered in the document are:

• Creating Measuring Points to define critical assets parameters and acceptable threshold ranges
• Capturing Sensor Measurement Readings in the system via Measuring Documents
• Configuring the system to automatically generate Notifications when thresholds are breached
• Converting Notifications into Predictive Maintenance Orders to schedule preventative work
• Executing Order Planning, Material Reservations, Settlement & Completion workflows
• Leveraging Fiori interfaces for streamlined measuring point and document creation

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This document provides training on the calibration maintenance process in SAP PM (Plant Maintenance). It outlines the steps for scheduling, executing, recording, and settling calibration orders to ensure equipment accuracy meets specifications. The guide covers how to assign master instruments, record inspection results, make usage decisions, settle orders, and obtain calibration certificates. It aims to equip SAP PM users to effectively perform calibration upkeep.

List of content covered in the Calibration Maintenance training manual:

• Maintenance Scheduling Overview: Checking scheduled calibration orders
• Master Instrument Assignment: Linking equipment to master gauges needed for calibration
• Releasing and Executing Orders: Releasing orders and recording results versus master standards
• Usage Decision: Deciding whether equipment passes or fails calibration
• Settlement: Settling order costs to cost centers after calibration complete
• Completion and Reporting: Completing orders and generating calibration certificates
• FIORI Overview: Brief overview of FIORI tile to display master inspection characteristics

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This PDF document provides an overview of the warranty management configuration in SAP to enable automated tracking of products and services under warranty. It outlines the scope of warranty solutions in SAP, including identifying warranty-covered items, validating claims, defining warranty pricing and invoicing impacts, and monitoring warranty expenses. A typical warranty claim process flow is explained for the automotive industry.

The document then provides a step-by-step guide to configuring warranty claim management in SAP, including defining claim types, assigning number ranges, setting up decision codes, pricing conditions, action matrices to control claim processing statuses, account determination procedures, validations/substitutions, and output determinations for credit notes. Key configuration transaction codes and paths in SAP are listed for each step.

Following step-by-step configuration to be carried out for warranty claim management in SAP:

1. Define Warranty Claim Type
2. Assign Number Range for Claim Type
3. Define Decision Codes
4. Define Pricing for warranty claim
5. Maintain Pricing Condition Records
6. Define Action Matrix for Claim Processing
7. Define GL Account Determination Procedure for Claim Processing
8. Assign Pricing, action matrix and GL Account Determination Procedure to Claim Type
9. Implement Validation/Substitution for claims (Optional)
10. Define Output Determination for claim credit note
11. Maintain Output Condition Records

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