PM - Maintenance Notification

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SAP Plant Maintenance - Maintenance Notification 

 

Create Maintenance Notification   - IW21

Change Maintenance Notification - IW22

Display Maintenance Notification - IW23

List of Maintenance Notifications - IW28

 

Sap Maintenance notification plays an important role in Plant Maintenance.

It is used to notify maintenance department about the abnormal or exceptional situation in technical objects at the plant.

It is also used for planned maintenance activity and to notify planners.

Tasks can be defined in notifications, which can be used for reporting analysis. you can use notifications for preliminary planning or as a request maintenance

The notification can also be used as a request maintenance, before the order is created. Through different steps of processing, the notification will get different status are related to the status.

 

OSNO - OUTSTANDING NOTIFICATION OR NOTIFICATION CREATED

NOPR - NOTIFICATION IS IN PROCESS

NOPT - SHOP FLOOR PAPER PRINTED

ORAS - ORDER CREATED 

NOCO - NOTIFICATION COMPLETED 

DLFL - DELETION FLAG INDICAITON 

 

When you create the notification, it is very important to choose the Appropriate notification type, because all the reporting type is based on the notification type.

 

There are totally three types of maintenance notification in the standard types :

1. M1 - Maintenance Request  - Notification of a malfunction or problem that has occurred 


2. M2- Malfunction Report       - Request for Tasks to be performed.


3. M3- Activity report               -  Documentation of activities to be performed. 

 

 

In the initial screen, Must fill the short description, Maintenance required Equipment, and fill the long text box if required( for the extended note purpose)

 

On to the down of the Maintenance notification screen, We have got the Catalog profile, The catalog profile has play crucial role in the Maintenance. From the catalogs, generate a various reports to analyze and track the maintenance activities, costs and inventory management.

Reports that can fetch from the Catalog profile :

MATERIAL USAGE REPORT, ROOT CAUSE FAILURE, COST ANALYSIS REPORT, MTTR AND MTBF ANALYSIS, COST ANALYSIS REPORT, INVENTORY MANAGEMENT REPORT

 

You can maintain manually the catalog profile in T code - QS41

 

 

Once you filled the catalog profile, On the next step you are about to give the TASKS

Fill the Tasks for the maintenance notification as a planned one. And you release the Tasks as you mentioned before., The status of the Tasks changed TSOS into TSRL

 

After release the Task make sure the Maintenance notification is in PUT IN PROCESS if not., kindly put the notification in process

The status of the maintenance notification has changed into OSNO to NOPR

 

Assign the relevant Activities to be perform, for the particular notification that needs.

 

 

Once your Activities get completed, Need to Complete the Tasks first.

 

After the tasks completed the the TSRL status is changed into TSCO, On the notification the status has changed into ACTO from OSNO.

 

And Now we are able to complete the Maintenance notification in Standard way

 

The status of the notification, should be in ATCO status where all the activities and Tasks are completed for the notification and the Notification status should be in NOCO.