Criterion for grouping Maintenance Items under a Maintenance plan

[dennis_rechards]

Hi Experts,

    Seeking advise on the grouping of maintenance items into a maintenance plan into PM.

I want to understand, what is the basis/factors to be considered here while grouping several maintenance items under one maintenance plan. In my scenario, there are Approx. 100K equipment existing. It's not feasible to create one plan for every equipment. Hence

1. We can identify multiple similar equipment (say 5 KW DC motors of same kind) and create item for one of these. Rest all equipment can be defined as Object list items. here we will define one maintenance item for these-- > say ITEM-1

2. Similarly we can create ITEM-2,3,4... Now I want to assign these items under a maintenance plan.   I want to know....

(A) What is the criterion for selecting the ITEM here under a particular plan ? Can it be the same start date of the maintenance cycle means all items having similar start date can be assigned under one plan?

(B) How to take care the case of a big equipment , having many arms (equipment), whose maintenance need to be taken care on different dates. Can we make a single plan for such big equipment and assign all small equipment by creating separate Items. If yes...how to take care the different dates.

Please advise...

Regards

Denny

[peter_atkin · Accepted solution]

Denny

All maintenance items on a plan adopt the same scheduling parameters. These multi-item plans ensure that the orders created from the each item are grouped together and will not become misaligned (unlike single plan/item combinations).

As an example, lets say you have 3 pump/motors on a skid:

So you may want to create a maintenance item for each of the 3 pump/motor sets with identical task lists/Packages etc, and then link these items to a single plan.

The plan would then ensure that the orders come out at the same time. If the orders are created early enough (via IP30), then your schedulers/planners can move the start dates of the individual orders to ensure that the 3 pump/moor sets are shut down and isolated at different times ensuring continued production.

So in essence, the plan is used for longer term planning, the orders are then rescheduled according to shorter term requirements.

One thing to bear in mind with multiple-item plans is when you use task lists which have differing packages - especially if these packages are hierarchical. You can sometimes find that hierarchical packages from one task list are suppressing lower level packages on another task list.

PeteA

[sebastian_lenartowicz]

Greetings Dennis,

Consider that for Items belonging to one Maintenance Plan, you are always going to have the same Schedule, i.e. all the Orders are going to be scheduled and called at the same time (accounting for the Maintenance Strategy, if used). Also, if you restart or modify the scheduling parameters, you do it for all the Equipments in the Plan.

You will need some input from your Maintenance responsibles to determine the best way to group your Equipments in a Plan. Generally, these should be Equipments that should all be maintained around the same time regularily.

You will need to ensure that the grouping of Equipments in the Maintenance Plan supports the business and allows timely execution of maintenance without disruption to operations. For example, in a railway company it would not make sense to put all the automotives on one Maintenance Plan - but it might make sense to do this for some automotives and some cars.

On the other hand, if you've got e.g. lifting equipments, it makes sense to schedule the maintenance of the lifting arm on the same plan as the truck.

[Former Member]

In Business scenario, generally Inspections will be done for small equipments viz., Pumps, Motor, etc., together. In case of any other Preventive Maintenance can be done together separately.

Based on that, you can group the equipments. Equipment can be grouped based on Functional Location or on Plant Section or on Plant level itself.

All the Maintenance plan Header details viz., Packages / Cycle, Shift Factors, Tolerances, Cycle Modification factor, Call Horizon, Scheduling Period, Start date are same, then you can go ahead with grouping with above mentioned strategy.

For big equipments as well, Inspections can be possible together sometimes. So you can follow above mentioned points.

Its based on the operations what they are doing on preventive maintenance, frequency & other given parameters.