Defining Maintenance Routes - Oracle Enterprise Asset Management

Operations are the instructions or tasks to perform a repair. Because each operation is associated with
a department, each operation contains assigned resources, for example, trades people, outside service
providers, and equipment (See: Defining Departments and Resources, Oracle Enterprise Asset
Management User's Guide). A Maintenance Route is the set of operations or jobs necessary to perform
an Activity. When a Work Order is created for an Activity, the Maintenance Route corresponding to the
Activity explodes to the Work Order (See: Defining Activities, Oracle Enterprise Asset Management
User's Guide); all operations specified in the Maintenance Route are copied to the Work Order as its
operations.

Maintenance Routes are not Asset Routes. For information on Asset Routes, See: Defining Asset
Routes, Oracle Enterprise Asset Management User's Guide.

Enterprise Asset Management operations differ from manufacturing operations because manufacturing
operations are performed sequentially, whereas eAM operations are not performed sequentially. In
Enterprise Asset Management, operations may not be sequential. You can specify that one operation is
dependent on another. Also, it is possible that two unrelated operations can happen concurrently. One
operation can depend on multiple operations. Multiple operations can depend on one operation. The
dependency may not be totally connected.

To define a maintenance route

1. Navigate to the Activity Workbench window.

2. Choose Launch.

Activity Workbench

3. Within the Activity Workbench pane, select the Activity for which you wish to create the Routing.
4. Choose Routing.

Routings
5. Select an Activity from the Item list of values.
6. Within the Main tab, enter an operation Sequence, or let the system automatically generate it
for you, according to your profile setup (See: Item and Operation Sequence, Oracle Bills of
Material User's Guide).
7. To copy or reference standard operations into a routing, use the operation Code list of values.
You can define a new standard operation by selecting Standard Operations from the Tools
menu.

If you use a standard operation code, the operation information for that code is copied into the
current operation. You can then update that information as desired (See: Creating a Standard
Operation, Oracle Bills of Material User's Guide).

8. Select a Department where the operation is performed.

9. Select the Referenced check box to indicate that any changes to standard operations are
reflected in the routing. If the standard operation is selected, this check box is selected by
default.
10. The Effective date defaults to the system date, but you can optionally change this (See:
Effective Date Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User's Guide).
11. Optionally enter a Disabled date to indicate the current operation's expiration.
12. Select the Description tab. Enter a Description for the current operation.
13. Optionally choose Routing Network to view the operation dependencies for the current asset
route.
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You can schedule operations to execute in parallel, sequence, or through dependent steps. In
the screen shot above, for example, Operations 20, 30, 40, and 50 are dependent on Operation
10, since there is a line connecting the operations. These operations also run in parallel to each
other. The operation numbers identify the sequence that they are performed (See: Preparing
Work Order Operations, Oracle Enterprise Asset Management User's Guide).

14. Optionally select an operation, then choose Operation Resources to view the resources
associated with the current department attached to this operation (See: Defining Departments
and Resources, Oracle Enterprise Asset Management User's Guide). Optionally you can modify
the resources listed (See: Assigning Operation Resources, Oracle Bills of Material User's
Guide).
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15. Save your work.

For information on all remaining fields, See: Creating a Routing, Oracle Bills of Material User's
Guide

For information on defining Activities using the Activity Workbench, See: Defining
Activities, Oracle Enterprise Asset Management User's Guide.