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Whether you´re working on an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) implementation, upgrade, or optimization project, this comprehensive guide will provide you all the details necessary to bring your plant maintenance system to life. Learn how to configure EAM to support planning, execution, and settlement processes for plant maintenance measures. Project team leads and key users will benefit from step-by-step configurations and best practices, and will learn how to avoid common obstacles.

Highlights:

Order handling
Customizing
Maintenance planning and processing
Mapping: orders and functions
Preventative maintenance
External processing
Linear Asset Management
Pool Asset Management
Subcontracting
Deadline monitoring
Cross-plant maintenance
BAdIs

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Acknowledgments ... 11

1. About This Book ... 13

1.1 Target Audience ... 14

1.2 What This Book Can and Cannot Do ... 15

1.3 Structure of This Book ... 16

1.4 How to Read This Book ... 17

2. SAP Projects in Plant Maintenance ... 21

2.1 A Possible Process for Your SAP Plant Maintenance Project ... 21

2.2 General Risk Factors and Success Factors in SAP Projects: An Empirical Survey ... 28

2.3 Tips for Your Plant Maintenance Project ... 32

3. Organizational Structures ... 73

3.1 General SAP Organizational Units ... 74

3.2 The Plant from a Maintenance Perspective ... 85

3.3 Maintenance-Specific Organizational Units ... 89

3.4 Work Centers ... 93

4. Generic Functions ... 105

4.1 Object Information ... 106

4.2 Status Management ... 108

4.3 Number Assignment ... 114

4.4 Warranties ... 117

4.5 Measuring Points and Counters ... 121

4.6 Permits ... 125

4.7 Partners ... 127

4.8 Documents ... 133

4.9 Field Selection ... 142

4.10 List Variants ... 146

4.11 Multilevel Lists ... 150

5. Structuring of Technical Systems ... 153

5.1 Structuring Elements ... 153

5.2 Functional Locations and Reference Functional Locations ... 155

5.3 Equipment ... 167

5.4 Fleet Management ... 177

5.5 Links and Networks ... 186

5.6 Linear Asset Management ...189

5.7 Materials and Assemblies ... 201

5.7.1 Material Types ... 202

5.7.2 Field Selection ... 218

5.8 Serial Numbers ... 225

5.9 Bill of Material ... 232

6. Maintenance Processing ... 243

6.1 Notifications ... 245

6.2 Orders ... 279

6.3 Completion Confirmations ... 408

7. Preventive Maintenance ... 419

7.1 Task Lists ... 421

7.2 Maintenance Plans ... 431

8. Additional Business Processes ... 437

8.1 External Processing ... 438

8.2 Refurbishment ... 454

8.3 Subcontracting ... 471

8.4 Calibration of Test/Measurement Equipment ... 477

8.5 Pool Asset Management ... 514

8.6 Maintenance Event Builder ... 533

8.7 Shift Reports and Shift Notes ... 535

9. Usability ... 547

9.1 Category 1: The User´s Own Options ... 549

9.2 Category 2: The IT Department´s Nonprogramming Options ... 568

9.3 Category 3: The IT Department´s Programming Options ... 589

Appendices ... 609

A. Project Plans and Overviews ... 609

A.1 Functional Scope of SAP EAM and Assignment of Priorities ... 609

A.2 Authorization Objects in SAP EAM ... 614

A.3 BAPIs for Plant Maintenance ... 616

A.4 Customer Exits for Plant Maintenance ... 623

B. The Author ... 629

Index ... 631

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Liebstückel, Karl
Dr. Karl Liebstückel is Professor of Information Management and Business Software at the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He has been Chairman of the German SAP User Group (DSAG) since 2007 and leads its Plant Maintenance and Service Management work group.

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