Plant Maintenance
The Plant Maintenance module of Evolution allows the user to define capital plant or equipment as either maintainable or non-maintainable. These values are held against user defined plant types, along with service and repair G/L accounts for recording activity. Plant structures can be created to break down say, a production line into discrete machines, or a specific machine into major sub assemblies that have different maintenance patterns. Once a plant type has been defined, it can have conditions attached to it.
One of seven conditions can be used to establish various types maintenance requirement:
- A specific Date
- Time Used - Sum of Processing time (hours) recorded against an item of Plant
- Units Produced - Sum of the quantities produced, recorded against the item of Plant
- Usage Occurrences - Number of times the item was used on different works order/operations
- Time Elapsed (Work Days)
- Time Elapsed (Calendar Days)
- User Defined
Once these conditions have been defined, maintenance events can be set up, either for service. Repair events follow a similar pattern but cannot be predicted in the same way as Services. Specific bills of repair and service BOMs and routings are also defined and a separate Plant Maintenance Planning process reviews the Plant Items and generates suggested actions in the same way that MRP schedules materials.
If CRP is in use, the effect of planned maintenance of equipment can be reflected in availability of production capacity.
