Activity Type in SAP PM

Dear Masters,
We have a field in order screen "PMActivType" can anybody explain me what is it used for and what is it necessary to define PMactivity types in configuration?
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
Activity types are used to calculate the Internal Labor cost based on the Planned hours & Actual hours. In the Maintenance Order, Planned labor hours for Internal Operation will be maintained in Operation tab.
Activity Pricing will be done by FICO people in KP26, for the activity types against cost center. For example, there are electricians, mechanics & technicians.
For those people, based on their salary (in case of permanant employee of the company) or hour basis (in case of contract employee), these pricing will be done.
For Electricians, Per hour charge would be 10 INR.
For Mechanics, per hour charge would be 8 INR.
Work centers would have been created for these people. In the costing tab of work center, activity types & cost centers will be assigned. For these activity types & cost center combination, pricing will be done in KP26.
In Maintenance Order, based on operation type, work centers will be assigned.
For Example
In the order, first operation will be done by Mechanics. Second operation will be done by Electricians, again 3rd operation will be done by Maechanics.
Based on that work center selection in operations, activity types will be assigned. For the activity type & cost center in work center, we have defined the price in KP 26 already.
For first operation, work hour is 3 hrs. So planned cost would be 24 INR (3 hrs * 8 INR / hr)
For second operation, work hour is 5, so planned cost would be 50 INR.
For 3rd operation, same calculation based on the hours in operation & cost.
Once you do confirmation, actual cost will be calculated in the same way.
I hope this will be clear.
Regards,
Maheswaran.

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/6a/cb576b895211d4a81b00104b59c1ec/frameset.htm
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