Need help to calculate capacities of tool life and forecast problems

Question

We want to track the parts and suppliers tools in SAP and calculate the capacities and tool life to forecast upcoming problems. We need to capture this information in PM module and track shelf life and create maintenence  plans  for parts. How can I create maintenence plans for the parts? I am aware of equipment and FLOCs to create maintence plans but not aware of creating maintence plans for parts!. Can somebody provide guidance?

Answer 1

The following is an idea to achieve your requirement on your pre-condition that you can not have Equipment numbers to your Tools
So, the previous reply hints at having Measuring points (Counters)  on the Press with various tools in Measuring Positions. i.e The Press 3000001 will have one Measuring point say 1234 with a characteristic say NoOfTanks pressed where Tool-Id (maintained outside SAP say Tool001) is given in Measuring Position field. Similarly another MPoint on 3000001, say 1235 will have same characteristic, but with Tool002 in MPosition field.. and so on..
You will be creating documents on these MPoints (Counters) as per No of Tanks pressed. So when the Counter reading  of a MDoc of a MPt (say 1235) reaches 10000, you will perform maintenance activity on Tool002.
Here comes the decision of yours to do it (watching for maintenance call) manually or through development. Manually means you will watch IK17 report and upon CntrRdg reaching 10000 you will perform the Maintenance Activity and record the same in the Document text / Longtext (MDTXT field)  of the 10000 TotcntrRdg  document.
OR
To get this alert (Notification or even Order) triggered by the system, you can use User-Exit IMRC0001, This is the job of your ABAPer.
If some way is suggested by experts, in standard maintenance scheduling itself, then obviously, naturally you should be adopting the same.
Best of luck
Jogeswara Rao K