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.