A PM (Preventive Maintenance) action is a template for creating future work orders, based on certain conditions. One PM action can generate many work orders.
Revision control give you the possibility and control on deciding having revisions of PM action or do all updates on the PM action itself without having revisions. This can be performed in two ways; either on the Site page or on the PM Action page. If you enabled it on site, when new PM action is created using that site will automatically get the Revision Control enabled and vice versa. A PM action revision that is in active status can only be updated with restriction if revision control is enabled and major changes such as entering new jobs and templates, adding/removing work list lines, changing criteria associated with maintenance plan, changing maintenance organization, etc, cannot be performed. When major changes are required, a new PM action revision has to be created. If revision control is disabled you can make any changes to the same PM action without having to create new PM action revisions but it will not be possible to keep track of any changes done.
The status of a PM action revision can be anyone of the following:
The status of the PM action revision can be changed by using the Status button. A new PM action revision can be created from a PM action which is in Active or Obsolete status if there is no PM action revision currently in the Preliminary status.
All PM actions and revisions are valid from the date of creation to the time period specified in IFS/Application Services by default. However, it is possible to limit (to cap) the effectiveness of individual PM action revisions by providing each PM action revision with a life span of its own. This feature is used when generating PM Plans. The life span of the individual PM action revision should be less than the time period specified in IFS/Application Services for the capping to take place. Note: To generate work orders, a PM action revision must be active and valid. The valid to date of new revision is copied from the latest revision of the PM action and not from the revision from where new revision is created.
A Preventive Maintenance Action is used for defining a maintenance task for an equipment or a linear asset object, which require material, work lists, and resources (Personnel and Tool/Equipment) in order to be executed properly. The planning of this kind of task is often important, either because of the resource requirements, or because of timing issues, i.e., the PM action must be performed at a certain time in order not to obstruct the production. A PM action can for example be a Monthly inspection, Yearly shutdown, etc.
On a PM action you can enter information about the equipment or linear asset object, action to be taken, maintenance organization responsible for executing the work orders, work list requirements, external costs and expenses, material requirements and resource (Personnel and Tool/Equipment) requirements. Furthermore, you can organize these requirements with the help of jobs. You can also specify generation conditions and connect documents. Additionally, you can plan jobs and related work lists on the PM plan of a PM action revision.
To administer changes for multiple PM Actions at the same time, the PM Administrator assistant can be used. Here as a first step (Current Settings) search for the PM Actions you want to change. As a second step (New Settings) specify the changes wanted. Finally as a third step (Table of Amendments) get a list of current PM Actions to be changed, evaluate the result and decide which one to change.