About Maintenance

Maintenance collects important data about each the operation and maintenance of each asset, which enables you to receive optimal performance from your business equipment. After AVEVA Production Management collects this information, it can feed the data into your Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system to maximize the operation and longevity of key equipment.

By feeding crucial information about equipment operation and performance into an EAM system, Maintenance helps you to:

• Monitor equipment condition and load.

• Schedule predictive and preventative maintenance activities.

• Measure the effectiveness of maintenance systems.

Collect data about equipment usage

Maintenance collects data about equipment usage, such as run-time information, number of starts, and load factors. This information can be collected automatically, added manually, or both, and is available to users for validation, confirmation, and analysis.

Some of the uses for Maintenance are:

• Automatically capture the actual run hours for equipment and send them to an EAM system.

• Automatically capture actual run hours per process order for equipment and send them to an ERP system for accurate job-cost accounting.

• In conjunction with the Metrics and Downtime modules, Maintenance can gather and analyze summary information for a specific time period.

Generate and view maintenance request

Maintenance also provides an online facility to record maintenance order requests and link them with external maintenance systems for high-level activity scheduling.

• Create maintenance requests (manual or automatic) and send them to an EAM system.

• View maintenance orders (and their updates) that were created in an EAM system.

Related topics

• Add an equipment usage record

• Work with Maintenance data