Maintenance Strategy

Hi team,
In my client case I have to use key date bsae strategy "B" for mainteannce planning.with 3M, 6M & 12 M , What should be hierarchy , there is no overlapping for maintenance package bec these three packages required for three different types of machines,with 3 ,6 & 12 months. should it be same hierarchy with H1. & one thing should i need to maintain : Factory calender as per my company factory calende."
Thanx in advance.

Hi,
In general If several maintenance packages are due at the same time, they must have the same hierarchy.If a maintenance package is to replace other maintenance packages when due, it must have a higher hierarchy.
So basically the choice of maintaining the same hierarchy or different hierarchy depends on how the operations are set up and what operations need to be performed from the task list.
If its the same operation for all different types of equipment then you would need to have different hierarchies and assign the operation to all packages in the task list.But then you could have achieved this by creating a simple time based single cycle plan and associate the same task list to three different types of equipment.You wouldn't have to create the Strategy plan at all.
If they are different operations then they could have the same hierarchy, if none of the operations need not be replaced by a different operation.Otherwise they would need different hierarchy.
Yes , you would need to assign your factory calendar to the strategy.If one hasn't been defined, you could define the same using transaction SCAL.
Regards
Narasimhan

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