Preventive Maintenance
This module enables you to use preventive maintenance for assets in an effective and efficient way. These assets can belong to your customers or can be your own internal assets. The planned activities can be covered by service contracts. These activities could be agreed with the customers and, therefore, must be automatically controlled by the service order system.
The supported preventive maintenance policies are as follows:
- Usage-based maintenance (UBM), based on periods or based on counter readings.
A trigger for service can be based on the number of kilometers, mileage, or working hours. After a specified usage, the predefined service activities must be carried out. Measurements can be used to track the usage and to plan next activities. Agreements can be based on the usage of assets.
- Condition-based maintenance (CBM) based on visits and measurements or reported measurements.
Condition-based maintenance depends on the condition of the asset, including components, or configuration lines. You can register several measurements to describe the condition of the asset. You can carry out condition monitoring based on the reports generated from inspections or inspection history, which you can obtain from Service Order Control.
Maintenance planning can be triggered from the Planning and Concepts (SPC) module. However, configurations that are linked to contracts must be initiated from the Contract Management (CTM) module.
For each of the selected Installation groups, LN checks what serialized items are linked to the Installation groups. If serialized items are found, the related anonymous items or service items can be identified. The generated planning provides the activities that must be carried out. When the planned activities are released, these activities can be transferred into actual service orders.