This must-have guide teaches you how to make the most of SAP Plant Maintenance (PM). Learn how to use SAP from a maintenance perspective, and how to align SAP PM functions with your own workflow. In addition, discover the power of SAP PM and how to use it with your own best practices.

The authors break plant maintenance down into three key areas: building best practices with the right people, making sure the SAP configuration matches the company’s best practices, and measuring SAP PM success. The book also provides explanations of the key obstacles to a successful plant maintenance implementation and presents solutions for each. In addition, it explores topics such as organizational preparation and focus, common configuration and implementation issues, and the information systems of plant maintenance. Throughout this comprehensive reference book, you’ll find useful, real-world examples that demonstrate the topics at hand. This is the one resource you need to understand how to approach SAP PM according to your own maintenance best practices.

Highlights

• Intoduction to Plant Maintenance and SAP PM
• Plant Maintenance Education
• Successful SAP PM Techniques
• Technical Object Structure Functionality
• Capturing Reliability History
• Planning, Execution, and Improvement of Maintenance Work
• Preventative Maintenance Strategy
• SAP Plant Maintenance Data
• Plant Maintenance Performance Health

About the Author(s)

John Hoke started Reliability Solutions, Inc. in 2003, and leads the SAP PM and Maintenance Consulting and Assessment Processes, while supporting the SAP Training Efforts. Lorri Craig joined Reliability Solutions, Inc. in 2004, and focuses on training practices using SAP PM. Lorri is responsible for the Training Development and Delivery, and supports the SAP PM Consulting and Assessment Processes.

Table of Contents

1 ... The Maintenance Health Assessment ... 21
... 1.1 ... Maintenance Needs a Computerized Maintenance Management System ... 22
... 1.2 ... The Required Mindsets for Reliability Success ... 25
... 1.3 ... The Methodology of Reliability Success ... 29
... 1.4 ... The Skills that Drive Reliability Success ... 34
... 1.5 ... Testing for SAP PM Readiness ... 38
... 1.6 ... Summary ... 41

2 ... SAP PM Basic Knowledge ... 43
... 2.1 ... The True Return on Investment of SAP PM ... 43
... 2.2 ... SAP Overview from a Plant Maintenance Perspective ... 48
... 2.3 ... Beginning with an End in Mind ... 57
... 2.4 ... The SAP Software Hierarchy ... 61
... 2.5 ... Evolving from the Newspaper Culture to the Internet Culture ... 72
... 2.6 ... Envision an Effective Implementation ... 77
... 2.7 ... Summary ... 79

3 ... SAP PM Education ... 81
... 3.1 ... How Ineffective Training Will Manifest Itself ... 81
... 3.2 ... Dealing with Audience Diversity ... 82
... 3.3 ... How to Educate and Train at the Same Time ... 84
... 3.4 ... SAP PM Teaching Tools ... 88
... 3.5 ... Train the Trainer Methodology ... 92
... 3.6 ... Testing for and Expecting Knowledge ... 94
... 3.7 ... Summary ... 96

4 ... Successful SAP PM Techniques ... 99
... 4.1 ... What Systems Require Continuous Support ... 99
... 4.2 ... Managing the Pace of Effective Support ... 110
... 4.3 ... This Is a Healthy SAP PM Installation ... 113
... 4.4 ... Job Descriptions and Skills Needed ... 121
... 4.5 ... Summary ... 123

5 ... Technical Object Structure Functionality — Setting the Foundation ... 125
... 5.1 ... Dependable Technical Object Structure Benefits ... 125
... 5.2 ... Technical Object Functionality ... 131
... 5.3 ... Common Application and Configuration Opportunities ... 151
... 5.4 ... Summary ... 162

6 ... Capturing the Reliability History Needed To Improve ... 163
... 6.1 ... Why Having a Dependable Notification Process is Important ... 163
... 6.2 ... Notification Functionality ... 166
... 6.3 ... Notification Application Design and Configuration Overview ... 187
... 6.4 ... Summary ... 206

7 ... Effective Planning, Execution, and Improvement of Maintenance Work ... 209
... 7.1 ... How the Maintenance Order Contributes to the Reliability Improvement Effort ... 209
... 7.2 ... Order Design and Configuration Overview ... 211
... 7.3 ... Order Application Overview Work Order Application ... 238
... 7.4 ... Common Application and Configuration Opportunities ... 259
... 7.5 ... Summary ... 268

8 ... Implementing an Effective SAP Plant Maintenance Preventive Maintenance Strategy ... 269
... 8.1 ... Why Having a Good Preventive Maintenance Process Tool is Important ... 269
... 8.2 ... SAP Preventive Maintenance Functionality ... 271
... 8.3 ... SAP Preventive Maintenance Application ... 283
... 8.4 ... Common Configuration and Application Barriers ... 296
... 8.5 ... Summary ... 300

9 ... Getting the Most Out of Your SAP Plant Maintenance Data ... 303
... 9.1 ... The Value of Data in SAP PM ... 303
... 9.2 ... Customized SAP Reporting Available to SAP PM ... 309
... 9.3 ... The Plant Maintenance Information System ... 312
... 9.4 ... Reporting Application of Selection Screens and List Displays ... 322
... 9.5 ... Summary ... 340

10 ... Measuring SAP Plant Maintenance Performance Health ... 341
... 10.1 ... You Get What You Measure ... 341
... 10.2 ... SAP Effectiveness Metrics ... 342
... 10.3 ... Summary ... 360

A ... The Authors ... 363