SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) Training

Plant Maintenance training is a mix of theoretical concept, case-studies, hands-on practice,and learning through examples. The organized structure of the course curriculum explains how to plan, schedule, and execute the set up process required for Plant Maintenance. How to define structure, manage documents, schedule tasks, corrective measures, customize settings for maintenance, generate reports and more will be explained. The integration of this Plant Maintenance module with other modules is also covered during the learning sessions.

Upon the completion of SAP Plant Maintenance Training, you will inculcate the following skills:

• Understand the complete Product Lifecycle Management
• Determine which documents to be prepared for managing complete record of work for integration, customization, and distribution
• Classify and maintain objects
• Manage complex plant maintenance operations such as planning, budgeting, scheduling, revisions, or shutdown
• Define proper maintenance plan that may include breakdown maintenance, project-oriented maintenance, work clearance and more
• Define structuring of functional locations and related details
• Schedule work and maintain planning based on different parameters covering time-based, performance-based, and role-based
• Establish integration between financial management, order process, information system and other related domains

Target audience

• Maintenance Managers
• Project Team Members
• Procurement Personnel
• Reliability Practitioners
• Planner/Schedulers
• Support maintenance
• Business Analysts
• Industry Specialist

Prerequisites

Candidates with basic understanding of the business processes of Plant Maintenance can take the best out of SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) Training.

Overview of PLM

• 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