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Implementation Considerations
You should allow sufficient time for planning the structure. Weigh up all the pros and cons for your company that each structuring approach will bring. Note that it takes longer to restructure objects later than it does to structure them in the first place.
Before you start representing technical objects in the system, it is imperative that you read the corresponding texts in the Implementation Guide (IMG).
Integration
Structuring your systems forms the basis for implementing the application components Plant Maintenance (PM) and Customer Service (CS).
Features
Before you begin representing technical objects in the system, you should be aware of the organization of maintenance planning within your company. You should focus primarily on the structure of the entire company. This involves defining correctly the maintenance plants and maintenance planning plants in your system.
Maintenance Plant
The maintenance plant of a technical object is the plant at which it is installed.
Clarification plant C1 is located in plant 0001. Plant 0001 is therefore the maintenance plant of the clarification plant C1.
The maintenance plant of the clarification plant C1 is the plant 0001. The plant 0001 does not perform its own maintenance planning. It is assigned to plant 0002, in which a maintenance planner group works, and that, for this reason, is indicated in the system as being a maintenance plant. The maintenance planner group in plant 0002 plans for the plants 0001 and 0002. The maintenance plant for the clarification plant C1 is therefore the plant 0002. The way in which you represent the organization of maintenance planning in your company depends on the structure of the entire company. You have three options: Centralized Maintenance Planning
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Plants: Maintenance plants: Maintenance planning plant: Plants assigned to the maintenance planning plant: Assigned plants:
Plants: Maintenance plants: Maintenance planning plants: Plants assigned to the maintenance planning plant 0001 Assigned plants: Plants assigned to the maintenance planning plant 0004 Assigned plants:
0001, 0002, 0003, 0004, 0005 0001, 0002, 0003, 0004, 0005 0001, 0004 0002, 0003 0005
Once you have represented the organizational structure of your company, you can choose between three different options for representing technical objects: Functional structuring (only functional locations) Object-related structuring (only equipment) Combination (equipment at functional locations)
Functional Structuring
With this type of structuring, you subdivide your technical system into functional locations. For example, when you subdivide a production line into functional locations, you can represent the individual function units as functional locations in the system. If you use functional locations when structuring your technical system, you can also take into account the process-oriented or spatial structure of the system. For more information, see Functional Location and Reference Functional Location.
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Object-Related Structuring
With this type of structuring, you subdivide your technical system into pieces of equipment. A piece of equipment is an individual, physical object that is to be maintained independently, and that can be installed in a technical system or part of a technical system.
Combination
You can combine object-related structuring using pieces of equipment with functional structuring using functional locations. In this case, the pieces of equipment are installed at functional locations (installation/dismantling of individual objects at a functional location). The functional location represents the site where the technical tasks are performed. The piece of equipment represents the object with which the technical tasks are performed. Within the framework of a damage analysis, you will then be able to recognize, for example, whether or not damage occurring repeatedly is linked to the usage site, or is specific to the objects made by a particular manufacturer. For more information, see: Equipment Hierarchical Equipment Structure Equipment at Functional Locations
When you perform structuring from an accounting perspective, you assign the system and its technical objects to certain cost centers or tangible assets. You can use this type of structuring in addition to structuring from a functional and/or object-related perspective. For more information, see Equipment as Units of Tangible Assets.
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