Planning in Plant Maintenance using MCB.

Hi Experts,
My client is into Mining Industry. This is a Greenfield SAP Implementation.
Client is not clear with the Planning requirements in the Plant Maintenance module.
Therefore, I have suggested that all the Standard Businenss Content Extractors and relevant Queries will be delivered as part of Maintenance Planning.
I tried but could not find any Plant Maintenance Planning (MCB) related DataSources and Queries in the BI 7.0 Business Content page @ http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/f6/7a0c3c40787431e10000000a114084/frameset.htm.
Could you please help me with this?
Thanks in advance,
Chandu

Hello Chandra,
We are in the Health Care sector and I have a similar requirement as of yours. We are not really sure what all we would require from PM, so we are thinking to go ahead with all the Business Content Reports and I have been asked to install all the Cubes, DSO's, Extracots, Reports Etc, Etc....
I just also have the above link in my hand and it doesn't give us a whole lot clear picture..? So how did u carry out with your requirement? What all you ended up installing? Please do share it, will be a great help for me.
Thanks in advance, Venu.

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