EAM focuses on managing fixed assets through their lifecycle, including maintenance, service, and repairs.
EAM Functions/Functionalities
External Assignment:
Outsourcing repairs or tasks when the organization lacks necessary personnel or facilities.
Sending equipment out for upgrades.
Refurbishment:
Upgrading equipment to extend its lifespan or improve performance.
Preventive Maintenance:
Performing maintenance proactively to prevent breakdowns.
Aiming to preempt failures rather than reacting to them.
Project-Oriented Plant Maintenance:
Managing maintenance for plants or a customer's plants as projects.
Recognizing that plant equipment maintenance involves many moving parts.
Shift Reports and Shift Notes:
Maintaining records of work done on equipment.
Ensuring continuity and preventing redundant tasks.
Providing proof of completed work that has been done to the equipment.
EAM Organizational Structure
Familiar Levels:
Client
Company Code
Plant
EAM-Specific Levels:
Maintenance Plant: Plant where technical objects are installed.
Maintenance Planning Plant: Plant where maintenance tasks are planned and prepared.
Maintenance Planner Group: Responsible for planning and processing maintenance tasks in a work center.
*Planning Plant Oriented of the Unit
Details of EAM-Specific Levels
Maintenance Plant:
Includes technical objects solely for maintenance.
Specifies the location of the maintenance plan.
*Plant Section that fixed assets are going to be maintained.
Example: Buildings, machines, vehicles at an army post.
*Indicates responsibility for working assets.
Maintenance Planning Plant:
The plant where maintenance tasks are planned in a work center.
Maintenance Planner Group:
Responsible for planning and processing maintenance tasks.
Vital to note which work center plans are being made for.
Master Data
Functional Locations
Hierarchically organized structures representing systems, buildings, or areas.
Normally fixed and do not move.
*Relates to the maintenance plan where the work centers are.
*Where work centers are found.
Examples: Technical systems, facilities for maintenance.
*Base, crane
Criteria for Structuring/Defining Maintenance Objects:
Spatial: Relates to buildings.
Technical: Relates to technical objects like pumping plants or cranes.
Functional: Relates to the role being played, such as production of bicycle frames or packaging.
Can subdivide objects into similar maintenance units.
*If a particular location deals with buildings, then it can group of the buildings in the organization together.
Advantages of Functional Locations
Structural depiction of a technical plant, showing physical location.
Planning and performing maintenance tasks.
Verification of maintenance tasks.
Data storage for extended periods.
Cost monitoring.
*Historical analysis to improve the behavioral aspect of the organization.
*Exists as long as the organization exists.
*Analysis under different condidtions
Equipment
Individual and autonomous technical units.
Physical objects for which maintenance tasks are planned and performed.
Usually mobile.
Examples: Pumps, personal computers, replacing fans, engines.
Can be placed in functional locations.
Advantages of Equipment Management
Administration of individual objects and data.
Labeling equipment to avoid confusion, especially with similar equipment.
Cost object tracking.
Monitoring costs associated with equipment usage and maintenance.
Data gathering and analysis for extended periods.
Bill of Materials (BOM)
A complete, structured list of all components of a fixed asset (equipment, building, machinery).
Important for knowing what goes into making the fixed asset, which aids in maintenance, parts replacement, and repairs.
Can be allocated to functional locations or equipment.
*Related to the single level and multi level.
*Material that is needed to maintain the equipment itself.
*Semi finished material that has its own bill of materials.
*Assemblies
Advantages of Having a BOM
Structuring of objects.
Grouping and defining equipment based on components.
Service parts planning and maintenance orders.
Knowing the parts needed for maintenance during planning.
*Maintenance Task Lists
EAM Process: Planned Repair
Five steps:
Notification: Recognizing malfunctions or requirements.
Planning:
Controlling:
Implementation:
Completion:
1. Notification
Gathering malfunctions and other requirements.
Content of notification:
Technical object (equipment).
Location data (where the equipment is).
Reporting party (who reported the issue).
Description of the issue.
Date of notification.
Breakdown of the fault.
Location of the damage.
Damage cost code. (Mechanics will tell you in the code, for example.)
2. Planning
Order creation (maintenance order).
Triggered from a notification.
Steps involved:
Steps to be performed to fix or maintain the asset.
Spare parts required (knowledge of the BOM is vital).
Any specialized tooling.
*Maintenance orders can be created from maintenance plans, notifications, or created without reference documents.
*Maintenance Plans
*Material Reservations can take place upon orderly.
*Plant costs are calculated based on internal activity rates and external service costs.
3. Controlling
Order release is carried out once planning has been completed.
Maintenance orders provide:
Mass change/edit.
Availability check for spare parts.
Capacity requirements planning.
Printing work instruction sheets.
4. Implementation
Performing the planned maintenance.
Planned and unplanned material withdrawals (goods issued) are possible.
5. Completion
Order completion steps:
Time confirmation.
Technical completion confirmation.
Technical completion (ends the process).
*Customer billing can be performed after successful technical completion.