Plan the maintenance for the company's equipment. The service item tracks the maintenance on the equipment.
In a maintenance plan, the service item is linked to a:
Resource of the type Machine.
Work center.
Machine center.
For each service item, several maintenance plans can be created for different types of maintenance (for example, preventive, hardware, software) each with its own interval.
The maintenance interval can be a simple date, a quantity (usually hours), or an estimated yearly quantity in combination with a quantity-based interval to calculate the next date. In the maintenance plan, material and resources can be specified and are copied to the service order when it is created.
Maintenance service orders are created with a batch task that can run periodically. When resources are allocated to the order, an absence entry is created for the equipment to block the capacity. The absence entry is made per date, so even when only a few hours are allocated to the service order, the whole day is blocked.
Maintenance intervals
Type | Description |
|---|---|
Date | The interval is based on dates and calculated with a date formula. When created, the assumption is that the work date is the last planned date from which the next planned date is calculated. The last planned date is updated from the service order when the maintenance is completed. |
Quantity | The interval is based on the quantity of running hours and assumes that these running hours are tracked. When created, the last planned quantity starts at 0 (but can be modified). The last planned quantity is updated from the service order. |
Normative Quantity | When quantities are not tracked in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, use the normative quantity interval. For this method, specify the Service Interval (Qty) and a normative estimated Quantity (Year). Assuming that running hours are evenly spread over the year, the app calculates the Next Planned Date. Last Planned Date and Last Planned Quantity are updated from the service order. |
Maintenance costs
Yearly maintenance costs are calculated from the lines in combination with the frequency. For example, when the maintenance interval is set at 6M, the frequency is set to 2 and the costs from the lines are multiplied by that number.
Besides calculating costs, the details on the lines are also used to add lines to the service order. In that way, material is planned for the service order (service lines are considered as demand) and resource and expense lines are prepared.
References
To learn more about plant maintenance in Industrial Equipment Manufacturing, see the references in the following table:
To | See |
|---|---|
Learn how to link a maintenance plan to a service item | |
Learn how to create a maintenance plan template | |
Learn how to generate maintenance orders |