Service Integration - Plant Maintenance Design Details
Plan the maintenance for the company’s equipment. The service item is used to track the maintenance on the equipment.
In a maintenance plan the service item is linked to a:
- resource of the type machine
- work center
- machine center
For each service item multiple maintenance plans can be created for different types of maintenance (ie preventive, hardware, software, etc.) each with its own interval. The maintenance interval can be a simple date, a quantity – hours mostly, or an estimated year quantity in combination with a quantity-based interval to calculate the next date. In the maintenance plan material and resources can be specified which will be copied to the service order when they are created. Maintenance service orders are created with a batch projectwhich can be run periodically. When resources are allocated to the order an absence entry is created for the equipment to block the capacity. The absence entry is made per date, so, even when only a few hours are allocated to the service order, the whole day is blocked.
Maintenance Intervals
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Date | The interval is based on dates and calculated with a date formula. When created the assumption is that the work date is the last planned date from which the next planned date is calculated. The last planned date is updated from the service order when the maintenance is completed. |
| Quantity | The interval is based on the quantity of, running, hours and assumes that these running hours are tracked. When created the last planned quantity starts at 0 (but can be modified). The last planned quantity is updated from the service order. |
| Normative Quantity | When quantities are not tracked in Business Central the normative quantity interval can be used. For this interval method specify besides the Service Interval (Qty) a Normative, estimated, Quantity (Year). Assuming that the running hours are evenly spread over the year the app will calculate the Next Planned Date. Last PLanned Date and Last Planned Quantity are updated from the Service Order. |
Maintenance Costs
Yearly, Maintenance Costs are calculated from the Lines in combination with the Frequency. For example, when the maintenance interval is set at 6M the frequency is set to 2 and the costs from the lines are multiplied by that number. Besides the calculation of the costs the details on the lines are also used to add lines to the service order. In that way material is planned for the service order (the service lines are considered as demand) and resource and expense lines are prepared.
See Also
| To | See |
|---|---|
| Learn how to create a Maintenance Plan template. | Maintenance Plan Template |
| Learn how to link a Maintenance Plan to a Service Item. | Maintenance Plan |
| Learn how to generate Maintenance Orders. | Maintenance Orders |
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