A PM program consists of a collection of work task templates that together make up the list of activities for how a certain type of equipment is maintained. The purpose of a PM program is to make it possible to reuse or recycle the preventive maintenance information for a particular object when creating new PM actions. This prevents planning the information over and over again for each PM action, thus saving time in planning and preparation. Once a PM program is defined, it can be added to similar equipment objects to generate PM actions.
A PM program should be connected to one or more Item Classes. This helps to group similar objects on which the similar set of work task templates could be used.
The generated PM actions will receive the relevant information such as work order generation conditions, material requirements, work list requirements, and tool and facility requirements from the work task templates that are connected to the PM program. Note: You can connect work task templates that belong to the same item class that the PM program belongs to. There can be multiple sites connected to a single PM Program.
New PM programs can be created by copying existing PM programs. Note: You can only use this feature to create new PM programs, and not to create new PM program revisions. New PM program revisions are created using the New Revision command.
Revision control gives the possibility to perform modifications to a PM
program without creating new revisions. This can be enabled or disabled in two
ways; either on the
Site page or on the
PM Program page. If you enabled it on site, when new PM program is created using that
site will automatically get the Revision Control enabled and vise versa.
A PM program can have many revisions. The status of a PM program revision can be
any one of the following:
A new PM program revision can be created from active or obsolete PM Programs where there are no existing revisions in preliminary status.