Enter Criteria for Calendar Generation

Explanation

Use this activity to enter criteria required for calendar-based generation of PM actions that will occur at regular intervals. When you create a PM Plan, you have several alternatives to specify start date, interval, and unit of measure. In PM Action on the Maintenance Triggers tab, in section Calendar.

The Calendar ID field is optional and can be used to avoid that PM lines are created during certain calendar periods, e.g. according to seasonal patterns. This is for example useful to make sure no PM lines are created during a vacation period if production stand still during that period. This calendar can be used in conjunction with the maintenance organization calendar which makes sure the PM lines are created on working days. But while the calendar of the maintenance organization will move lines outside working time forward to next coming working day , this calendar will make sure such lines are omitted from the maintenance plan."

Example:

Suppose we have a Maintenance Calendar which only has work days Monday-Friday. This calendar is connected to the maintenance organization entered on the PM. You create a maintenance plan beginning at 2015-08-15 and which is to take place every third month. The maintenance plan will look like the following:

2015-08-17
2015-11-16
2016-02-15
2016-05-16
2016-08-15
2016-11-15

Please notice that the PM’s planned for 2015-08-15 (Saturday), 2011-11-15 (Sunday) and 2016.05-15 (Sunday) are moved forward to the next coming work day.
However, if we create a new similar PM action but add the very same calendar to the Calendar ID field of the PM Action form, following maintenance plan will be created:

2016-02-15
2016-08-15
2016-11-15

Please note that all the planned PM’s that were moved forward to next coming work day are now instead omitted from the maintenance plan.
 

Prerequisites

System Effects

As a result of this activity, a calendar PM Plan for a specified criteria will be created in the Maintenance Plan tab.