Remove a Maintenance Group from an Active Maintenance Program
Explanation
This activity is used to remove a maintenance group and the connected maintenance
plan from an active maintenance program. The purpose of this activity is
to enable phasing out a maintenance group that is no longer used.
Once a maintenance program has been activated and serials connected to the
program and the maintenance group, you cannot remove this maintenance group
from the later revisions of the maintenance program. When a new revision of
a maintenance program is activated, all the serials connected to the maintenance
program will automatically be moved to the new revision of the maintenance program.
If the maintenance group of the serial does not exist in the new revision of
the maintenance program, an error will occur.
The process of phasing out a maintenance group from an active maintenance
program is as follows:
- Create new revision of a maintenance program. Make sure that all the
maintenance groups in the old revision of the maintenance program also exists
in the new revision.
- Make the necessary adjustments to the new revision of the maintenance
program, including adding new maintenance groups.
- Activate the new revision of the maintenance program.
- Identify all the serials using the maintenance group that should be
phased out. For all these serials, change the maintenance group to the new
one.
- Click Remove Maintenance Group in the Define Maintenance
Program/Maintenance Groups tab or the Maintenance
Plan page to remove the maintenance group from the active
maintenance program.
Prerequisites
- The maintenance program must be in the Active status.
- All the serials connected to the maintenance group that is to be removed
from a maintenance program, must be connected to a different maintenance
group in the same or different maintenance program.
- The maintenance group to be removed cannot be the last group for the
part number, within the maintenance program.
System Effects
- If the combination of the selected maintenance group and maintenance
program do not have any serials connected to it, and if the maintenance
group to be removed is not the last maintenance group connected to the maintenance
program, the maintenance plan and its maintenance group will be removed
from the active maintenance program.
- An entry will be created in the maintenance program journal.