Introduction to SAP PM (Plant Maintenance)

SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) is a software product that manages all maintenance activities in an organization. Plant Maintenance module consists of key activities to include inspection, notifications, corrective and preventive maintenance, repairs, and other measures to maintain an ideal technical system. It helps manage inspections, repairs and preventive activities. The plant maintenance SAP module can also record problems in SAP, plan material activities and labor and record the cost. Also, if desired, SAP PM can control automatic repairs and maintenance requests.

SAP PM application component provides an organization with a tool for all maintenance activities to be performed. All the activities that are performed under maintenance are interconnected and hence this module is closely integrated with other modules - Production Planning, Material Management, and Sales and Distribution. Using SAP PM, you can perform automatic repairs and facilitate maintenance requests in an organization. It allows you to record problems in SAP system, plan labor and material activities, and to record and settle the cost.

 

In an organization, you can identify, document, manage problems and perform enterprise asset management for any required assets.

To perform these activities, SAP Plant Maintenance contains the following functions −

 

1) Management of technical objects and equipment master record.

2) Planning of maintenance task.

3) Manage workflow notifications and work orders under maintenance order management.

 

Key Functions of Plant Maintenance include:

 

a) Inspection

Inspection is done to check the actual condition of a technical system.

 

b) Preventive Maintenance

Preventive maintenance is used to maintain high availability of the technical system. It includes maintenance planning and work scheduling activities for technical objects.

 

c) Repair

Repair involves all measures that can be performed to restore the ideal condition. Repair process can be performed at many planning stages - like work scheduling, resource planning and initial costing, etc. You can respond immediately w.r.t to a damage events causing production shutdown. You can create required purchase requisition and processed work orders to reduce the downtime.