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Functional Locations allows to represent/describe technical installations in SAP and can be organized hierarchically according to functional, process-related or spatial criteria, so that upper elements represent large areas (a complete Production Unit with its differents sections/sub-sections), while lower elements represent more precise locations or process functions. Each individual Functional Location represents a place/a process function at which maintenance tasks can be performed.
Functional Locations structure is the backbone of the Maintenance information system. It allows to organize most data used in Maintenance (technical documentations, procedures, breakdowns, costs...)
Techinical objects (Equipments) can for example be installed at Functional Locations, in order to describe the physical devices used to fulfill the process function identifed by the Functioal Location.
A piece of Equipment identifies an individual physical device / machine in the technical installations (a reactor, a pump, a motor ...), which is maintained independently. Equipment are generally installed on a Functional Location, and can - during its lifetime - be moved to different locations.
Using Equipment allows you to perform the following functions in the system:
Assemblies are used to
A bill of material (BOM) is a complete, formally structured list of the components (spare parts) making up a technical object or an assembly. It contains the material numbers of the individual components together with their quantity and unit of measure. The components can be stock or non-stock spares.
Bill of Materials
Maintenance BOMs are used to easily identify the appropriate spare parts when repairing a piece of Equipement or a Functional Location.
Maintenance Task Lists describe the sequence of individual maintenance activities which must be executed in a repair or maintenance job.
Task lists can be specific to a Piece of Equipement, to a Functional Location, or can be generic (General Maintenance Task List).
Task list are useful for repetitive jobs, they allow to easily create the work order used to carry out each individual repair/job. They are mostly used in planned maintenance, but can also be used in normal maintenance.
The Document Management System (DMS) allows
The documents can either be located (stored) on a shared drive, in an External application, on Internet or in the SAP database (vault).
The DMS allows for example
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