Plant Maintenance Activities

Question

Dear Colleagues
We are relooking at the configuration in our SAP PM module. Am particularly interested in going with the best practice in allocating the correct Plant Maintenance Activity types to the correct Work Order Types for both Preventative and Unpreventative/Unscheduled maintenance. What is the conclusive list of activity types and what rule or determination can we make in the assignment of these maintenance types to the order types
Regards
Gibson

Answer 1

Dear,
The advantage of the PM activity types is that, it helps the maintenance department to execute the reports based on PM activity type.Because for some users it may be difficult to execute reports based on Maintenance Order type if you have several types for different plants in same company code.
And also it helps to trigger automatic "PERMIT" for the maintenance order activities if you configure the "PERMIT" system with classification controls.I mean to say is that, you may be using similar maintenance order type for different activities at shop floor.But only few of them needed "Permit" from safety or process department to execute Maintenance work.In such cases it helps engineering team to have automatic assignment of PERMIT  to the maintenance order.
WE can not have bench mark for these PM activity types, as this configuration depends upon the business finally.
You may choose, as follows(This is just example for you):
Preventive Maintenance - Preventive Maintenance activity type
Calibration - Calibration maintenance activity type
Predictive - Predictive Maintenance Activity type
General Maintenance - Shut down and Oppurtunity and Insulation/Cladding and Painting etc...
Regards,
Pardhu