How to set up Maintenance

1

Prepare for Maintenance

Before you set up Maintenance, do the following:

• Define the entire plant hierarchy. You can better decide where to place Maintenance reporting points if you can see the completed hierarchy.

• Define users. When you set up the Maintenance module, the ExternalNumber property is added to user properties so that you can assign an Originator ID to each user.

• (Optional) Define equipment types so that you don't repeat the same configuration task for similar types of locations.

• (Optional) Define period definitions. With period definitions, you can specify repeatable lengths of time in the plant process; for example, every 15 minutes, every day, or every shift.

• (Optional) Define time events. With time events, you can base events on dates and times; for example, only once at 2:00 p.m. on 11 May 2007, at 2:00 p.m. every Thursday, or every 15 minutes between 11 May 2007 and 11 June 2007.

2

Associate equipment with locations

Specify the equipment that is relevant to the locations in the plant hierarchy.

• Assign an equipment ID to a location

3

Define a Maintenance reporting point

You can define the properties of reporting points to specify how AVEVA™ Production Management captures data about equipment usage.

In the plant hierarchy, locate positions to add Maintenance reporting points.

4

Define when to capture data about equipment usage

Reporting points can contain different conditions that specify when to capture data about equipment usage.

• Add and configure a Maintenance capture condition

5

Define what information to capture

Define fields and specify the field properties to specify what information to capture.

• Add a Maintenance custom field