Deactivating/Dismantling Equipments - effects on Preventive Maintenance

[Former Member]

Dismantling a piece of equipment means uninstalling it from its current installation location. It may be done in order to:

1. Install it at a different location.

2. Indicate that the equipment is not in operational use and is going to be stored at some storage location for a while. Some other equipment will be installed in its place.

In case 2, the equipment is not subject to breakdown maintenance. However, preventive maintenance may still be carried out. The scheduled preventive maintenance plans will keep generating call objects for this equipment.

But, preventive maintenance may not be needed to be carried out for certian kinds of equipments while they are not in operational use. To stop generation of call objects agaisnt such equipments, we Deactivate the equipment master record alongwith Dismantling it. Call objects are not generated for equipments that are deactivated and hence no preventive maintenance will be carried out until they are Re-installed and Activated.

I need to know if we are handling things in accordance with standard practices by following the measures described above. Secondly, I am concerned about the validity of the assumption that whether preventive maintenance is needed for a certian uninstalled equipment depends on the kind of equipment it is (electrical, mechanical or whatever).

Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.

Regards,

Farhan Shaikh

[Former Member]

The question has been answered in EAM forum

[Former Member]

Another way doing that would be scheduling your PMs on basis of the functional location. So then, no matter what equipment is installed, you get a call for the maintenance of the current equipment.

But this is based on the assumption that there is always an equipment installed.