| # Preventive Maintenance This module enables you to use preventive maintenance (Service Planning and Concepts SPC) for assets in an effective and efficient way. These assets can belong to your customers or can be your own internal assets. The planned activities can be covered by service contracts. These activities could be agreed with the customers and, therefore, must be automatically controlled by the service order system. You can define a unique maintenance concept for each product. The supported preventive maintenance policies are as follows: Usage-based maintenance (UBM), based on periods or based on counter readings. A trigger for service can be based on the number of kilometers, mileage, or working hours. After a specified usage, the predefined service activities must be carried out. Measurements can be used to track the usage and to plan next activities. Agreements can be based on the usage of assets. Condition-based maintenance (CBM) based on visits and measurements or reported measurements. Condition-based maintenance depends on the condition of the asset, including components, or configuration lines. You can register several measurements to describe the condition of the asset. You can carry out condition monitoring based on the reports generated from inspections or inspection history, which you can obtain from Service Order Control. To support the definition of maintenance concepts, a library with (reference) maintenance concept can be consulted. For items, (reference) maintenance concepts can be defined and stored in a library for ease of use. When the maintenance concept is set up and agreed upon, the corresponding Maintenance Predictions can be generated, and maintenance planning can subsequently be generated. The following figure provides an overview of the ERP LN Service Planning and Concepts (SPC) module. At the upper-left corner of the figure, you see two key elements that serve as a basis for setting up maintenance concepts. Maintenance concepts are sets of activities that must be carried out in line with a particular maintenance policy, which includes reference activities and anonymous items or service items. Reference activities identify the type of work and the resources required for carrying out specific maintenance activities. You can link these reference activities to specific anonymous items or service items. Maintenance concepts are used to plan preventive maintenance activities. You can use the generic maintenance concept to generate a prediction of the activities that must be carried out. This prediction contains, on a relative time scale, the expected moments for these activities. You can generate these predictions by anonymous item, by usage class, and by combinations of anonymous item and class. This generation results in a more specific maintenance concept, which in turn can be used for the actual maintenance planning. Maintenance planning can be triggered from the Planning and Concepts (SPC) module. However, configurations that are linked to contracts must be initiated from the Contract Management (CTM) module. For each of the selected clusters, ERP LN checks what serialized items are linked to the clusters. If serialized items are found, the related anonymous items or service items can be identified, through which the maintenance concepts that must be used can also be found. The generated planning provides the activities that must be carried out. When the planned activities are released, these activities can be transferred into actual service orders. |