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Table of Contents
A. Organization............................................................................................................. ....................6
1. Plant Maintenance................................................................................................. ................6
1.1. Maintenance Planning Plant.......................................................................... .....................6
1.2. Maintenance Plant............................................................................................ ..................6
1.3. Plant Section.................................................................................................................. .....6
1.4. Location.......................................................................................................... ....................6
1.5. Maintenance Planner Group................................................................................ ...............7
B. Master Data.................................................................................................................... ..............7
1. Plant Maintenance................................................................................................. ................7
1.1. Technical Objects (Structuring of Technical Systems).................................................... .....7
1.1.1. Functional Location.................................................................................................... ......7
1.1.2. Equipment..................................................................................................................... ...9
1.1.3. Fleet Object........................................................................................... ..........................12
1.1.4. Production Resource/Tool as Equipment............................................................ .............15
1.1.5. Reference Functional Location................................................................... .....................15
1.1.6. Bill of Material for Functional Location........................................................... ..................16
1.1.7. Equipment Bill of Material............................................................................. ...................16
1.1.8. Object Link.............................................................................................................. .........17
1.1.9. Installed Base............................................................................................. .....................17
1.2. Task Lists........................................................................................................... .................18
1.2.1. General Task List........................................................................................... ..................18
1.3. Maintenance Plans..................................................................................... ........................18
1.3.1. Single Cycle Plan........................................................................................................ .....19
1.3.2. Multiple Counter Plan...................................................................................................... .19
1.3.3. Strategy Plan.............................................................................................. .....................20
1.4. Solution Database.............................................................................................................. .21
1.4.1. Symptom....................................................................................................................... ...21
1.5. Additional Master Data................................................................................................ ........22
1.5.1. Warranty................................................................................................... .......................22
1.5.2. Counter/Measuring Point.............................................................................. ...................22
1.5.3. Revision............................................................................................................. ..............23
1.5.4. Catalog.................................................................................................... ........................23
1.5.5. Permit 23
C. Business Processes.................................................................................................... .................23
1. Plant Maintenance................................................................................................. ................23
1.1. Breakdown Maintenance Processing........................................................................... .......24
1.1.1. Notification......................................................................................................... ..............24
1.1.1.1. Notification Creation/Processing........................................................................ ...........24
1.1.1.2. Task Definition.............................................................................................................. .26
1.1.1.3. Notification Printing........................................................................................... ............27
1.1.1.4. Entry of Technical Findings.......................................................................... .................27
1.1.1.5. Notification Archiving................................................................................................... ..27
1.1.2. Order 27
1.1.2.1. Order Creation/Processing................................................................. ..........................27
1.1.2.2. Material Planning......................................................................................... .................30
1.1.2.3. Order Permit............................................................................................ .....................31
1.1.2.4. Order Release................................................................................... ...........................31
1.1.2.5. Work Clearance Management............................................................... .......................32
1.1.2.6. Order Printing.................................................................................... ...........................32
1.1.2.7. Order Execution................................................................................................. ...........32
1.1.3. Capacity Planning................................................................................................. ...........33
1.1.3.1. Capacity Evaluation.................................................................................... ..................33
1.1.3.2. Capacity Dispatching and Leveling................................................................... ............34
1.1.4. Modification of Technical Systems................................................................. ..................34
1.1.4.1. Installation, Dismantling and Modification of Equipment.................................. .............34
1.1.5. Material Movements........................................................................................................ .35

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1.1.5.1. Goods Issue Processing................................................................................. ..............35

1.1.6. Completion Confirmation......................................................................... ........................36
1.1.6.1. Individual Time Confirmation..................................................................................... ....37
1.1.6.2. Overall Completion Confirmation................................................................. .................38
1.1.6.3. Time Sheet Processing................................................................................... ..............38
1.1.6.4. Time Sheet Permit................................................................................. .......................40
1.1.6.5. Forwarding of Time Sheet Data to PM............................................................. .............40
1.1.6.6. Time Sheet Report............................................................................................ ............41
1.1.6.7. Service Entry Sheet.................................................................................... ..................41
1.1.6.8. Entry of Technical Findings.......................................................................... .................41
1.1.6.9. Measurement Document Processing................................................................ ............42
1.1.6.10. Measurement Document Archiving........................................................... ..................42
1.1.7. Settlement and Completion........................................................................................... ...42
1.1.7.1. Technical Order Completion.................................................................................... ......42
1.1.7.2. Order Settlement........................................................................................................... 42
1.1.7.3. Business Order Completion........................................................................... ...............43
1.1.7.4. Order Archiving............................................................................................ .................43
1.1.7.5. Historical Order - Entry........................................................................ .........................44
1.1.8. Information System.............................................................................................. ............44
1.1.8.1. Evaluations of Plant Maintenance Information System [PMIS].....................................44
1.2. Planned Maintenance Processing....................................................................................... 44
1.2.1. Maintenance Planning............................................................................. ........................44
1.2.1.1. Maintenance Plan Scheduling........................................................... ...........................44
1.2.1.2. Maintenance Call Processing............................................................ ...........................44
1.2.2. Notification......................................................................................................... ..............44
1.2.2.1. Notification Creation/Processing........................................................................ ...........44
1.2.2.2. Notification Printing........................................................................................... ............46
1.2.3. Order 46
1.2.3.1. Order Creation/Processing................................................................. ..........................46
1.2.3.2. Material Planning......................................................................................... .................49
1.2.3.3. Order Permit............................................................................................ .....................50
1.2.3.4. Order Release................................................................................... ...........................50
1.2.3.5. Work Clearance Management............................................................... .......................50
1.2.3.6. Order Printing.................................................................................... ...........................51
1.2.3.7. Order Execution................................................................................................. ...........51
1.2.4. Capacity Planning................................................................................................. ...........52
1.2.4.1. Capacity Evaluation.................................................................................... ..................52
1.2.4.2. Capacity Dispatching and Leveling................................................................... ............53
1.2.5. Modification of Technical Systems................................................................. ..................53
1.2.5.1. Installation, Dismantling and Modification of Equipment.................................. .............53
1.2.6. Material Movements........................................................................................................ .54
1.2.6.1. Goods Issue Processing................................................................................. ..............54
1.2.7. Completion Confirmation......................................................................... ........................55
1.2.7.1. Individual Time Confirmation..................................................................................... ....56
1.2.7.2. Overall Completion Confirmation................................................................. .................56
1.2.7.3. Time Sheet Processing................................................................................... ..............57
1.2.7.4. Time Sheet Permit................................................................................. .......................59
1.2.7.5. Forwarding of Time Sheet Data to PM............................................................. .............59
1.2.7.6. Time Sheet Report............................................................................................ ............60
1.2.7.7. Service Entry Sheet.................................................................................... ..................60
1.2.7.8. Measurement Document Processing................................................................ ............60
1.2.7.9. Measurement Document Archiving.............................................................. .................61
1.2.8. Settlement and Completion........................................................................................... ...61
1.2.8.1. Technical Order Completion.................................................................................... ......61
1.2.8.2. Order Settlement........................................................................................................... 61
1.2.8.3. Business Order Completion........................................................................... ...............61
1.2.8.4. Order Archiving............................................................................................ .................62
1.2.8.5. Historical Order - Entry........................................................................ .........................62
1.2.9. Information System.............................................................................................. ............62
1.2.9.1. Evaluations of Plant Maintenance Information System [PMIS].....................................62
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1.3. Project-Based Maintenance Processing.......................................................... ...................62

1.3.1. Notification......................................................................................................... ..............63
1.3.1.1. Notification Creation/Processing........................................................................ ...........63
1.3.1.2. Notification Printing........................................................................................... ............64
1.3.2. Order 65
1.3.2.1. Order Creation/Processing................................................................. ..........................65
1.3.2.2. Material Planning......................................................................................... .................67
1.3.2.3. Order Permit............................................................................................ .....................68
1.3.2.4. Order Release................................................................................... ...........................68
1.3.2.5. Work Clearance Management............................................................... .......................69
1.3.2.6. Order Printing.................................................................................... ...........................69
1.3.2.7. Order Execution................................................................................................. ...........70
1.3.3. Capacity Planning................................................................................................. ...........70
1.3.3.1. Capacity Evaluation.................................................................................... ..................70
1.3.3.2. Capacity Dispatching and Leveling................................................................... ............71
1.3.4. Modification of Technical Systems................................................................. ..................71
1.3.4.1. Installation, Dismantling and Modification of Equipment.................................. .............71
1.3.5. Material Movements........................................................................................................ .72
1.3.5.1. Goods Issue Processing................................................................................. ..............72
1.3.6. Completion Confirmation......................................................................... ........................73
1.3.6.1. Individual Time Confirmation..................................................................................... ....74
1.3.6.2. Overall Completion Confirmation................................................................. .................75
1.3.6.3. Time Sheet Processing................................................................................... ..............75
1.3.6.4. Time Sheet Permit................................................................................. .......................77
1.3.6.5. Forwarding of Time Sheet Data to PM............................................................. .............77
1.3.6.6. Time Sheet Report............................................................................................ ............78
1.3.6.7. Service Entry Sheet.................................................................................... ..................78
1.3.6.8. Measurement Document Processing................................................................ ............79
1.3.6.9. Measurement Document Archiving.............................................................. .................79
1.3.7. Settlement and Completion........................................................................................... ...79
1.3.7.1. Technical Order Completion.................................................................................... ......79
1.3.7.2. Order Settlement........................................................................................................... 79
1.3.7.3. Business Order Completion........................................................................... ...............80
1.3.7.4. Order Archiving............................................................................................ .................80
1.3.7.5. Historical Order - Entry........................................................................ .........................80
1.3.8. Information System.............................................................................................. ............80
1.3.8.1. Evaluations of Plant Maintenance Information System [PMIS].....................................80
1.4. Refurbishment Processing in Plant Maintenance................................... ............................81
1.4.1. Order 81
1.4.1.1. Refurbishment Order Creation/Processing............................................... ....................81
1.4.1.2. Material Planning......................................................................................... .................83
1.4.1.3. Order Permit............................................................................................ .....................84
1.4.1.4. Order Release................................................................................... ...........................84
1.4.1.5. Order Printing.................................................................................... ...........................85
1.4.1.6. Order Execution................................................................................................. ...........85
1.4.2. Capacity Planning................................................................................................. ...........85
1.4.2.1. Capacity Evaluation.................................................................................... ..................85
1.4.2.2. Capacity Dispatching and Leveling................................................................... ............86
1.4.3. Goods Movements..................................................................................................... ......87
1.4.3.1. Goods Issue for Refurbishment.............................................................. ......................87
1.4.3.2. Goods Receipt for Refurbishment........................................................................... ......87
1.4.4. Completion Confirmation......................................................................... ........................89
1.4.4.1. Individual Time Confirmation..................................................................................... ....90
1.4.4.2. Overall Completion Confirmation................................................................. .................91
1.4.4.3. Time Sheet Processing................................................................................... ..............91
1.4.4.4. Time Sheet Permit................................................................................. .......................93
1.4.4.5. Forwarding of Time Sheet Data to PM............................................................. .............93
1.4.4.6. Time Sheet Report............................................................................................ ............94
1.4.4.7. Service Entry Sheet.................................................................................... ..................94
1.4.4.8. Entry of Technical Findings.......................................................................... .................94
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1.4.4.9. Measurement Document Processing................................................................ ............95

1.4.4.10. Measurement Document Archiving........................................................... ..................95
1.4.5. Settlement and Completion........................................................................................... ...95
1.4.5.1. Technical Order Completion.................................................................................... ......95
1.4.5.2. Order Settlement........................................................................................................... 95
1.4.5.3. Business Order Completion........................................................................... ...............96
1.4.5.4. Order Archiving............................................................................................ .................96
1.4.5.5. Historical maintenance order - Entry...................................................................... .......97
1.4.6. Information System.............................................................................................. ............97
1.4.6.1. Evaluations of Plant Maintenance Information System [PMIS].....................................97

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A.Organization
1. Plant Maintenance
1.1. Maintenance Planning Plant
Questions:

Q: 1) How maintenance will be planned within your company?

A:

1.2. Maintenance Plant

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to set up plants specfically for maintenance requirements (in addition
to the common logistics plants)?

A:

Q: 2) How is capacity planning performed in your maintenance plants?

A:

Q: 3) How are maintenance spares stored?

A:
1.3. Plant Section
Questions:

Q: 1) Are certain types of maintenance work planned or executed with consideration to

the plant sections?

A:

1.4. Location
Questions:

Q: 1) Do you subdivide your maintenance plant in locations to facilitate the maintenance

job or for purpose of reporting?

A:

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1.5. Maintenance Planner Group

Questions:

Q: 1) How is maintenance work organized?

A:

Q: 2) How are the maintenance teams / labor resources organized?

A:

B.Master Data
1. Plant Maintenance
1.1. Technical Objects (Structuring of Technical Systems)
Questions:

Q: 1) How should your technical systems be structured?

A:

Q: 2) What kinds of technical objects do you handle (for example, objects that can be
dismantled or used for different purposes in different production stages etc.)?

A:

Q: 3) How is information about technical objects organized and stored in your company
(for example, via EDV, file cards or no information at all)?

A:

1.1.1. Functional Location

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you manage objects that are immovable and that usually have a long
operational life (for example, clarification plants)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you require additional functionality to structure your maintenance objects?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 3) If yes, which objects need to be represented with functional locations?

A:
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Q: 4) What do the hierarchy levels of the functional locations represent (for example,
cost center levels, production process levels)?

A:

Q: 5) Is the hierarchy for functional locations structured according to spatial, functional

or technical viewpoints?

A:

Q: 6) How detailed should the functional location hierarchy be (for example, number of
levels, installation and dismantling of equipment)?

A:

Q: 7) At what level(s) of the hierarchy should data be entered?

A:

Q: 8) How detailed should the last level of the hierarchy for functional locations be?

A:

Q: 9) Is it sometimes the case in your company that functional location numbers change
(for example, if you assign part of a technical system to another technical system)?

A:

Q: 10) Do you need to assign different numbers to functional locations (for example, (a)
from a procedural perspective and (b) from a measurement/control system perspective)?

A:

Q: 11) How should the different levels be linked together with regard to the transfer of
data?

A:

Q: 12) Do you need to link documents to functional locations?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 13) Do you need to record the performance of functional locations using measuring
points and counters?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

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Q: 14) If yes, is counter reading data transferred between the different levels?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 15) Do you track warranties? If yes, are you a guarantor, a warrantee, or both?

A:

Q: 16) Do you want to obtain a note on the warranty automatically for a positive
warranty check result?

A:

Q: 17) Do you classify functional locations? If yes, how?

A:

Q: 18) Do you want to analyze what influence the usage conditions have on the
susceptibility to damage of the installed equipment?

A:

Q: 19) Do you need to document your technical objects according to their usage time
for functional locations?

A:

Q: 20) Do you determine the business partners (internal and/or external) whose
address(es) you require, if you need maintenance requests for a particular functional
location?

A:

Q: 21) Do you want to archive master records for functional locations? If yes, provide a
copy of your document archiving procedure. If this is not available, describe specific archiving
requirements.

A:

Q: 22) Do you want to make the screen templates for processing technical objects
(functional location, equipment) user-specific?

A:

1.1.2. Equipment

Questions:

Q: 1) Which maintenance objects must be entered as equipment master data?

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Q: 2) List and describe the different categories of equipment that you maintain.

A:

Q: 3) How many pieces of equipment do you expect to manage in your system?

A:

Q: 4) Is each individual piece of equipment in your company identified by a serial

number (by your production department and/or by the manufacturer)?

A:

Q: 5) Do you want to create your own serial numbers or do you use the serial number of
the manufacturer as a reference/key for that object?

A:

Q: 6) If you use serial numbers, on which level do you want to track their history
(including costing, statistics, and so on)?

A:

Q: 7) Does your equipment include particular assemblies that you want to handle
individually in order to perform damage and cost analyses? Describe them.

A:

Q: 8) Do you represent the different types of equipment using material master records
in conjunction with Materials Management (for example, inventory management, goods
movements)?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 9) Does your equipment include larger components that you want to handle
individually, in order to create damage and cost analyses for them?

A:

Q: 10) Specify business partners (internal and/or external) for whom you require an
address when you need maintenance requests for a particular piece of equipment.

A:

Q: 11) Add other partners to the list, if necessary.

A:

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Q: 12) Do you need to link documents (for example, drawings, manuals) to equipment
master records? If yes, give some examples.

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 13) Do you measure and log the current condition of the equipment in the system
(for example, temperature, pressure, operating time)? If yes, describe the measuring points
and counters, which you use for different pieces of equipment.

A:

Q: 14) Do you track warranties? If yes, are you a guarantor, a warrantee, or both?

A:

Q: 15) Describe the different warranties for your equipment, and specify whether these
should be recorded individually for each piece of equipment.

A:

Q: 16) Do you want to obtain a note on the warranty automatically for a positive
warranty check result?

A:

Q: 17) Does a technician in your company require a special work permit before starting
work on specific equipment?

A:

Q: 18) Does old data (for example, equipment master records, repair histories or
information about technical objects) have to transferred? Give a typical example.

A:

Q: 19) Do you classify equipment? If yes, how?

A:

Q: 20) Are some pieces of equipment created as production resources/tools?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 21) Which changes to equipment do you want to document with a usage list?

A:

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Q: 22) Do you want to make the screen templates for processing technical objects
(functional location, equipment) user-specific?

A:

Q: 23) Do you want to generate/change a related asset automatically when

creating/changing a piece of equipment, and/or vice-versa?

A:

Q: 24) Do you want to archive equipment master records? If yes, provide a copy of your
document archiving procedure. If this is not available, describe specific archiving
requirements.

A:

1.1.3. Fleet Object

Questions:

Q: 1) Which maintenance objects must be entered as equipment master data?

A:

Q: 2) List and describe the different categories of equipment that you maintain.

A:

Q: 3) How many pieces of equipment do you expect to manage in your system?

A:

Q: 4) Is each individual piece of equipment in your company identified by a serial

number (by your production department and/or by the manufacturer)?

A:

Q: 5) Do you want to create your own serial numbers or do you use the serial number of
the manufacturer as a reference/key for that object?

A:

Q: 6) If you use serial numbers, on which level do you want to track their history
(including costing, statistics, and so on)?

A:

Q: 7) Does your equipment include particular assemblies that you want to handle
individually in order to perform damage and cost analyses? Describe them.

A:

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Q: 8) Do you represent the different types of equipment using material master records
in conjunction with Materials Management (for example, inventory management, goods
movements)?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 9) Does your equipment include larger components that you want to handle
individually, in order to create damage and cost analyses for them?

A:

Q: 10) Specify business partners (internal and/or external) for whom you require an
address when you need maintenance requests for a particular piece of equipment.

A:

Q: 11) Add other partners to the list, if necessary.

A:

Q: 12) Do you need to link documents (for example, drawings, manuals) to equipment
master records? If yes, give some examples.

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 13) Do you measure and log the current condition of the equipment in the system
(for example, temperature, pressure, operating time)? If yes, describe the measuring points
and counters, which you use for different pieces of equipment.

A:

Q: 14) Do you track warranties? If yes, are you a guarantor, a warrantee, or both?

A:

Q: 15) Describe the different warranties for your equipment, and specify whether these
should be recorded individually for each piece of equipment.

A:

Q: 16) Do you want to obtain a note on the warranty automatically for a positive
warranty check result?

A:

Q: 17) Does a technician in your company require a special work permit before starting
work on specific equipment?

A:
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Q: 18) Does old data (for example, equipment master records, repair histories or
information about technical objects) have to transferred? Give a typical example.

A:

Q: 19) Do you classify equipment? If yes, how?

A:

Q: 20) Which changes to equipment do you want to document with a usage list?

A:

Q: 21) Do you want to make the screen templates for processing technical objects
(functional location, equipment) user-specific?

A:

Q: 22) Do you want to archive equipment master records? If yes, provide a copy of your
document archiving procedure. If this is not available, describe specific archiving
requirements.

A:

Q: 23) Which types of fleet objects do you want to manage?

A:

Q: 24) Which data do you want to see/maintain within the fleet object?

A:

Q: 25) Which types of utilities and consumables do you want to maintain?

A:

Q: 26) For what purpose do you intend to use your fleet objects?

A:

Q: 27) Which engine types do your fleet objects have? Do you want to maintain these?

A:

Q: 28) Which unit of consumption do you require?

A:

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Q: 29) Which counter types do you require (for example, kilometer counter,
consumption counter, time counter and so on)?

A:

Q: 30) How do you want to name your counters?

A:

Q: 31) How do you want to calculate your consumption?

A:

1.1.4. Production Resource/Tool as Equipment

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to make the screen templates for processing technical objects
(functional location, equipment) user-specific?

A:

Q: 2) Do you want to generate/change a related asset automatically when

creating/changing a piece of equipment, and/or vice-versa?

A:

Q: 3) What kind of production resources/tools do you require?

A:

Q: 4) Do you want to manage your production resources/tools by quantity alone or also

based on localization, value, responsible person etc.?

A:

Q: 5) Do you use production resources/tools which have to be checked or calibrated

regularly?

A:

1.1.5. Reference Functional Location

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you have many similar technical structures in your organization?

A:

Q: 2) Do you have standardized functional location structures that should be

represented as reference functional locations?

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A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 3) According to which criteria do you intend to structure your functional location

hierarchies (for example geographical, functional or technical aspects)?

A:

1.1.6. Bill of Material for Functional Location

Questions:

Q: 1) Will you use functional location BOMs?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) How are they structured?

A:

Q: 3) Will you need to use engineering change management to control BOM changes?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

1.1.7. Equipment Bill of Material

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you have structures for special sub-items?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) If yes, are they pieces of equipment that you want to trace on monitor?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 3) If you use equipment hierarchies, describe some examples of when and how they
are structured.

A:

Q: 4) Does your equipment include larger components that you want to handle
individually, in order to create damage and cost analyses for them?

A:

Q: 5) Do you currently have equipment BOMs (spare parts lists)?

A: [ ]Yes
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[ ]No

Q: 6) If so, are they stored electronically?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 7) How are equipment BOMs structured?

A:

Q: 8) How are BOMs linked to equipment masters?

A:

Q: 9) Will you need to use Engineering Change Management to manage your BOMs?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 10) Do you also construct BOMs with alternative materials?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 11) Do you use variant configuration?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

1.1.8. Object Link

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to define and represent horizontal object links?

A:

Q: 2) If so, for which of the following objects do you want to display the links?

A:

Q: 3) Which types of relationship exist between the linked objects (1:1, 1:n, n:n)?

A:

1.1.9. Installed Base

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to use IBase management (a) purely for documentation and
management of an object structure (ie. a production process) or (b) as a limited substitute for
bills of material?

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A:

Q: 2) Which object types are part of your installed base hierarchy?

A:

1.2. Task Lists

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you have work plans for service tasks in your current IT system or databases?

A:

Q: 2) Do you want to archive maintenance task lists? If so, please provide a copy of
your document archiving policy if available. If this is not available, please describe specific
archiving requirements.

A:

1.2.1. General Task List

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you require configurable task lists?

A:

Q: 2) Do you classify general task lists? If yes, how?

A:

Q: 3) How do you group your general task lists?

A:

1.3. Maintenance Plans

Questions:

Q: 1) How will you create maintenance plans (e.g., representing individual maintenance
items or by grouping a number of maintenance items)?

A:

Q: 2) Will you plan the preventive maintenance separatly for each maintenance
equipment or will you establish a preventive maintenance plan for a group of maintenance
objects (e.g., one plan for a production line that consists of several pieces of equipment)?

A:

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Q: 3) Do you have different frequencies for the execution of your maintenance tasks
and would you like to have all of them in just one maintenance plan?

A:

Q: 4) If the maintanence plans generate service entry sheets for a MM external

management, should they be directly created by the plans or after the orders are
created/released?

A:

Q: 5) For what types of service object do you create maintenance items?

A:

Q: 6) Will you have pre-defined activity lists (task lists) for your different preventive
maintenance services that list the required work steps (including estimated work time), spare
parts and/or tools?

A:

Q: 7) If yes, are those activity lists specific for the different equipment types (machine
types) or different functional locations for which you offer preventive maintenance?

A:

Q: 8) Do you want to archive maintenance plans? If so, please provide a copy of your
document archiving policy if available. If this is not available, please describe specific
archiving requirements.

A:

1.3.1. Single Cycle Plan

Questions:

Q: 1) What criterion is the maintenance cycle based on for the single cycle maintenance
plan?

A:

Q: 2) What character does the cycle have?

A:
1.3.2. Multiple Counter Plan

Questions:

Q: 1) Should just performance-based (counter-based) or also time-based maintenance

cycles be integrated into the multiple counter-based maintenance plan?

A:

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Q: 2) Do you use cycle sets for the attachment of multiple counter plans?

A:

Q: 3) Which counters for which technical objects (functional locations, equipment)

should be assigned to the individual maintenance cycles?

A:

Q: 4) Which time-base should be used (for example, calendar, factory calendar, key
dates)?

A:

Q: 5) If a preventive maintenance activity is completed early (before the planned date)

or late (after the planned date), do you then also shift the next planned preventive
maintenance activities for the same equipment?

A:

Q: 6) When should preventive maintenance tasks appear in your order backlog?

A:

Q: 7) List the different maintenance cycles, on which the scheduling of preventive

maintenance activities should be based.

A:

Q: 8) Do you want to plan maintenance independently of your hierarchy of technical

objects?

A:

1.3.3. Strategy Plan

Questions:

Q: 1) What criterion is the maintenance cycle based on for the strategy-based

maintenance plan?

A:

Q: 2) Which time-base should be used (for example, calendar, factory calendar, key
dates)?

A:

Q: 3) If a preventive maintenance activity is completed early (before the planned date)

or late (after the planned date), do you then also shift the next planned preventive
maintenance activities for the same equipment?

A:
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Q: 4) When should preventive maintenance tasks appear in your order backlog?

A:

Q: 5) List the different maintenance cycles, on which the scheduling of preventive

maintenance activities should be based.

A:

Q: 6) Do you want to plan maintenance independently of your hierarchy of technical

objects?

A:

1.4. Solution Database

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you possess technical objects that are required for detailed technical
information in order to introduce necessary error handling?

A:

Q: 2) Is the offer of a solution database helpful for the notification processor?

A:

Q: 3) Do recurring problems constantly appear during notification processing that are

linked with a complex solution process?

A:

Q: 4) Is there a bottleneck in specialist knowledge in your area?

A:

Q: 5) Is error diagnosis an essential step in your area or is it "only" used for short-term
error handling?

A:

Q: 6) Are you already using (computer-supported) Help for error analysis and handling
based on a knowledge or error database?

A:

1.4.1. Symptom

Questions:

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Q: 1) Structure existing problems based on criteria?

A:

1.5. Additional Master Data

1.5.1. Warranty

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you track warranties? If yes, are you a guarantor, a warrantee, or both?

A:

Q: 2) Which materials contain warranty agreements?

A:

Q: 3) To which objects should warranties be assigned?

A:

Q: 4) Describe the different warranties for your objects and specify whether these
should be listed individually for each object.

A:

Q: 5) What is the current procedure? Automatically or manually?

A:

Q: 6) Do you want to obtain a note on the warranty automatically for a positive warranty
check result?

A:

Q: 7) Which warranty counters are used?

A:

1.5.2. Counter/Measuring Point

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you need to record the performance of functional locations using measuring

points and counters?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) If yes, is counter reading data transferred between the different levels?

A: [ ]Yes
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[ ]No

Q: 3) Do you measure and log the current condition of the equipment in the system (for
example, temperature, pressure, operating time)? If yes, describe the measuring points and
counters, which you use for different pieces of equipment.

A:

1.5.3. Revision

Questions:

Q: 1) Is there any revision planned where a production line or plant has to be shut down
for a certain time?

A:

1.5.4. Catalog

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to create an inspection catalog of characteristic features, causes of

defects, and usage decisions that occur when maintenance work is executed?

A:

Q: 2) Describe your current catalogs and their structure.

A:

1.5.5. Permit

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you consider permits in connection with orders, for example, with regard to
working conditions or safety aspects? If yes, describe your permit procedures.

A:

Q: 2) If yes, who in your company is authorized to issue permits?

A:

C.Business Processes
1. Plant Maintenance
Questions:

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Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the maintenance history from your current system to SAP
R/3?

A:

Q: 2) If yes, to which of these objects should the data be transferred?

A: [ ] Historical orders
[ ] Work orders
[ ] Notifications (activity report)

Q: 3) Could your maintenance organization operate as a profit center (as opposed to a

cost center)?

A:

Q: 4) How do you process maintenance costs (for example, settlement to cost center)?

A:

Q: 5) Is any part of your maintenance organization outsourced (or will it be in the

future)?

A:

Q: 6) Are certain maintenance activities always performed by external contractors? If

yes, describe these types of maintenance work.

A:

Q: 7) Do you want to set up a workflow for the processing of notifications and/or orders?

A:

1.1. Breakdown Maintenance Processing

1.1.1. Notification
1.1.1.1. Notification Creation/Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) Who in your organization is responsible for identifying maintenance work?

A:

Q: 2) Who in your organization is responsible for processing identified work?

A:

Q: 3) How do you prioritize identified work?

A:
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Q: 4) Are you restricted to a certain period of time when executing these tasks?

A:

Q: 5) List the business partners (internal and/or external) whose address information
you require when creating the notification. Add other business partners, if necessary.

A: [ ] Owner of technical object

[ ] Operator of technical object
[ ] Person responsible in your enterprise organization
[ ] Other

Q: 6) Do you want to be able to process related notification and order data collectively
in a single form?

A:

Q: 7) Do you want information about the reference object displayed automatically when
a notification is created? If yes, what information?

A:

Q: 8) How do you describe a problem? Do you enter a verbal problem description or do

you use standardized codes, for example, to determine the damage, cause of damage, or
object part?

A:

Q: 9) Do you want to link digitalized documents to notifications?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 10) Do you assign a responsible person to each task?

A:

Q: 11) Should the person responsible for a task be informed automatically by the
system?

A:

Q: 12) How do you want to configure the interface for your notification with regard to
control data, breakdown data, activity data, and task data?

A:

Q: 13) Do you have standard tasks that you always perform for different types of
notifications? If yes, please describe them in detail.
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A:

Q: 14) Do you record the performed activities that solved the customer problem in a
standardized way (for example, using standardized codes) in order to evaluate possible
solutions for a problem?

A:

Q: 15) Do you want to set up an escalation workflow for notifications and tasks?

A:

Q: 16) Do you want to use paging in your company as an additional form of

communication?

A:

Q: 17) How and when are notifications completed?

A:

1.1.1.2. Task Definition

Questions:

Q: 1) How do you plan the processing of a maintenance notification? Do you use tasks
during processing?

A:

Q: 2) If you use notification tasks, give some examples.

A:

Q: 3) Who is responsible for performing a maintenance task?

A:

Q: 4) Do predefined follow-up tasks result automatically from completed tasks?

A:

Q: 5) Is there a set procedure for how you react to malfunctions?

A:

Q: 6) Do you perform maintenance work with or without entering costs?

A:

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1.1.1.3. Notification Printing

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you print notifications?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) Provide some examples of the output format(s) for notifications.

1.1.1.4. Entry of Technical Findings

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you record technical information (for example, which part of the equipment
was broken, damage, cause of damage) about a maintanence problem in order to create a
service history or to enable further evaluations?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) Which technical data should be recorded and who is responsible?

A:

Q: 3) When do you document technical findings?

A:

Q: 4) Do you want to have a coding system, which allows standardized entry of

technical information? If yes, list the different categories (for example, damage), for which you
want to have codes.

A:

1.1.1.5. Notification Archiving

Questions:

Q: 1) Describe your specific archiving requirements.

A:

Q: 2) Do you want to archive notifications? If so, provide a copy of your document

archiving policy. If this is not available, please describe specific archiving requirements.

A:

1.1.2. Order
1.1.2.1. Order Creation/Processing

Questions:

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Q: 1) What different types of maintenance do you have in your company (for example,
preventive maintenance, repair, installation)? Create a list of the maintenance types and
outline the differences in planning and execution.

A:

Q: 2) Mark in the following list whether maintenance tasks are performed by employees
and/or contractors.

A:

Q: 3) What information about labor resources (for example, availability and number of
people, duration of work, split of operation) do you require from the system when planning
maintenance orders?

A:

Q: 4) How do you proceed with an external assignment with the sub-contractor?

Choose one or more of the following options.

A:

Q: 5) Do you want to be able to process related notification and order data collectively
in a single form?

A:

Q: 6) Will several technicians work on the same maintenance task?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 7) Do you want to assign individual operations to particular people?

A:

Q: 8) Do you want to configure a special search help for partners in your order?

A:

Q: 9) For which operation types do you want to represent the operation description
using service specifications?

A:

Q: 10) Do you want to define skills and/or qualifications for maintenance order
operations?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 11) Do you provide the technicians who perform the preventive maintenance with a
list of activities? If yes, how detailed are they?
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A:

Q: 12) Do you use pre-defined task lists in work order planning?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 13) If yes, which of the following types of task lists do you require?

A:

Q: 14) Do you assign materials (spare parts) to work orders during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 15) Which rules do you use to determine material availability (for example, daily
requirements, individual requirements)?

A:

Q: 16) How do you want to plan materials that must be purchased during the planning
phase?

A:

Q: 17) Do you want to generate purchase requisitions and reservations when the order
is created?

A:

Q: 18) Do you want to create purchase requisitions directly from the maintenance order
during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 19) Do you want to generate collective purchase requisitions or individual purchase

requisitions for each external item?

A:

Q: 20) How do you want to plan special tools, documents and so on, which are required
to execute maintenance activities?

A:

Q: 21) Do you use work order permits, for example, to manage working conditions or
safety matters?

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A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 22) At what intervals do you want to schedule work (for example, daily, weekly,
monthly)?

A:

Q: 23) How do you want to prioritize work?

A:

Q: 24) At which level do you plan work (for example, for a shift, crew, skill, qualification,
or an individual person and so on)?

A:

Q: 25) How detailed is your planning (for example, usage backlog, capacity evaluation,
capacity scheduling)?

A:

Q: 26) Should the capacity load, which was formed for all the capacity types of the PP
work centers, be reduced for the duration of a maintenance task planned in a work order?

A:

Q: 27) Do you want to use paging in your company as an additional form of

communication?

A:

Q: 28) Do you use maintenance orders for processing investment measures? If yes,
should the asset under construction be created automatically or manually?

A:

Q: 29) Do you want the maintenance order to be integrated with one of the following
Controlling components?

A:
1.1.2.2. Material Planning

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you assign materials (spare parts) to work orders during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) Who performs material planning for orders in your company?

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A:

Q: 3) Which rules do you use to determine material availability (for example, daily
requirements, individual requirements)?

A:

Q: 4) How do you want to plan materials that must be purchased during the planning
phase?

A:

Q: 5) Do you want to create purchase requisitions directly from the maintenance order
during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 6) Is there an approval procedure for external purchase orders and material

withdrawals? If yes, describe it.

A:

1.1.2.3. Order Permit

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you consider permits in connection with orders, for example, with regard to
working conditions or safety aspects? If yes, describe your permit procedures.

A:

Q: 2) If yes, who in your company is authorized to issue permits?

A:

1.1.2.4. Order Release

Questions:

Q: 1) Who in your organization is allowed to release maintenance orders (for example,

maintenance planner, dispatcher)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you need to restrict the release until a process is completed or authorization

obtained? If yes, describe the process.

A:

Q: 3) Are there instances where orders should be released automatically?

A:
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1.1.2.5. Work Clearance Management

Questions:

Q: 1) What should be the relationship between the objects in Work Clearance

Management (order, work approval, work clearance application, work clearance document
and so on)?

A:

Q: 2) Do conflicts exist between the conditions of different technical objects? Define

these.

A:

Q: 3) Which different approval steps are required for your work clearance process?
Describe the concept or process flow of your approval process.

A:

Q: 4) Which employee is responsible for which types of approvals? Describe the

applications.

A:

Q: 5) Which employee should be informed about which subject or object condition at

which time?

A:

Q: 6) Should the employees involved later in the approval process be informed

automatically of the progress of previous approval levels (Workflow)?

A:

1.1.2.6. Order Printing

Questions:

Q: 1) Identify the internal papers that you require for the different people and order
types involved (for example, job ticket for employee, picking list).

A:

Q: 2) Provide some representative layout examples.

Q: 3) Do you assign printers to the people involved?

A:

1.1.2.7. Order Execution

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Questions:

Q: 1) Note: This process is only for maintenance activities performed manually on

technical systems by the technician.

A:

Q: 2) How is material withdrawn for the order?

A:

Q: 3) Do you work with closed or open warehouses?

A:

Q: 4) Should the warehouse be informed of imminent material withdrawals using a

material availability slip?

A:

1.1.3. Capacity Planning

1.1.3.1. Capacity Evaluation

Questions:

Q: 1) Is it necessary to determine if a person is available to do a task? (If yes, consider

using employee shift scheduling.)

A:

Q: 2) Do you want to change capacity/work centers for periods with overload? (If yes,
consider changing the work center/assignment/activity dates manually from the evaluation
reports.)

A:

Q: 3) Do you do short term capacity planning? (If yes, ensure the time horizon for the
capacity evalution reflects the appropriate time period. If no, ensure the time horizon for the
capacity evaluation reflects the appropriate time period.)

A:

Q: 4) Do you utilize your personnel resources/capacities per process or enterprise-

wide? (If yes, consider using work center hierarchies.)

A:

Q: 5) Are resources to be shared across departments (for example plant maintenance

and projets)?

A:

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Q: 6) Which order type do you want to use for capacity evaluation?

A:
1.1.3.2. Capacity Dispatching and Leveling

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you process the overload on capacities/wk centers? (If yes, you could use the
capacity leveling functions- dispatching and deallocating).

A:

Q: 2) Do you prefer to use a graphical planning tool for capacity leveling? (If yes, use
the graphical capacity planning tool If no, consider using the tabular capacity planning tool.)

A:

Q: 3) Do you want to assign available capacities to order operations?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 4) When you split order operations, do you want the system to create capacity loads
automatically for individual people?

A:

Q: 5) Which type of planning table do you want to use?

A:

Q: 6) Which planning strategies will you use for Sequencing?

A:
1.1.4. Modification of Technical Systems
1.1.4.1. Installation, Dismantling and Modification of Equipment

Questions:

Q: 1) Are installation operations in your company performed by your own technicians or

assigned externally?

A:

Q: 2) How are dismantling procedures performed at your company?

A:

Q: 3) Which components are exchanged?

A:

Q: 4) Are dismantled parts refurbished? If yes, describe the refurbishment process.

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A:

Q: 5) Should a history be managed for the exchanged parts?

A:

Q: 6) Who documents the modification of a technical system and when?

A:

Q: 7) Do changes also have to be made to the system master during modification work?

A:

1.1.5. Material Movements

1.1.5.1. Goods Issue Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) Who posts the goods issue?

A:

Q: 2) How do you record materials issued from stores?

A:

Q: 3) How do you document materials supplied by the subcontractors?

A:

Q: 4) How will the consumption of these parts be recorded and who will post their
withdrawal in the system?

A:

Q: 5) How do you document materials that are ordered for specific work orders?

A:

Q: 6) How do you wish to document which materials were received specifically for a
work order?

A:

Q: 7) How much time elapses between the actual goods issue and its posting in the
system?

A:

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Q: 8) Is the posting made online or in batch mode?

A:

Q: 9) Are deliveries posted individually or for each group of goods issues?

A:

Q: 10) Is stock posted to the receiving site? If so, which type of stock (stock in transit,
available stock, etc.)?

A:

Q: 11) Which documents are generated in conjunction with this posting and what
information do they contain?

A:

1.1.6. Completion Confirmation

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you or your employees enter completion confirmations of time?

A:

Q: 2) Who confirms orders in your company?

A:

Q: 3) Are the completion confirmations in your company entered at the level of

personnel number?

A:

Q: 4) Should the superior approve the times recorded by the employees?

A:

Q: 5) Do you also want to confirm used material at the same time as the time
confirmation?

A:

Q: 6) Should the technical completion (for example, for breakdown times, causes of
damage, tasks and so on) be made at the same time as the time confirmation?

A:

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Q: 7) Do you also want to enter measurement readings with the completion

confirmation?

A:

Q: 8) Do you use the integration with the HR module?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 9) Do you create completion confirmations centrally, or does each employee enter

their own times themselves?

A:

Q: 10) Do you issue confirmation slips to your employees?

A:

Q: 11) How many times per day do your employees enter their working time?

A:

Q: 12) Will you use a Plant Data Collection (PDC) system for your completion
confirmations?

A:

Q: 13) Do you enter the working times of contractors? If yes, how should the external
services be entered?

A:
1.1.6.1. Individual Time Confirmation

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you enter the absolute duration or period of time (from...to)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you differentiate the times entered according to other activitiy types (for
example, to distinguish between normal work hours and overtime)?

A:

Q: 3) Is the confirmation of your services person-based?

A:

Q: 4) In what unit and with what accuracy do you want to enter services?

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A:

1.1.6.2. Overall Completion Confirmation

Questions:

Q: 1) Which employees confirm which data?

A:

Q: 2) Are internal services confirmed?

A:

1.1.6.3. Time Sheet Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) In which systems do you track employee master data? Are wage rates only
maintained in the R/3 System or in other systems too?

A:

Q: 2) Do you use this data as a basis for indirect activity allocation to cost objects, cost
centers, inernal orders and so on?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 3) Explain how such a time sheet is structured today and how it should be structured
in future (what information do you need on the time sheet?).

A:

Q: 4) Does everyone who records working time have a personal number in HR? (If not,
CATS is not supported.)

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 5) Which of your employees should fill out timesheets?

A:

Q: 6) How do your employees enter and track working times?

A:

Q: 7) Are the labor costs calculated based on actual costs or standard rates?

A:

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Q: 8) How do you determine these labor rates?

A:

Q: 9) Please explain the procedure, how employees in your company track and report
time today.

A:

Q: 10) In which system do you want to run payroll?

A:

Q: 11) Are there special conditions for labor costs when employees work in different
countries or for different profit centers (for example, if an employee from the UK works on a
project in Germany)?

A:

Q: 12) Do you enter labor in complete hours or clock time?

A:

Q: 13) How do your employees enter trip costs? Are the trips linked to the recording of
working time? Describe in detail.

A:

Q: 14) Do you use the SAP employee reporting system?

A:

Q: 15) Identify the different categories of activity (activity types) that you use for
estimation, planning and settlement purposes?

A:

Q: 16) What are the various cost collectors, to which employees will charge time (for
example, cost centers, projects, internal orders)?

A:

Q: 17) Do sub-contractors and other third party labor sources have to enter work using
timesheets?

A:

Q: 18) Are these external services settled to a cost center or directly to the project?

A:
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Q: 19) Do you record overtime?

A:

Q: 20) How is the cost of overtime calculated? Do you have different types of overtime
(for example, time and a half, double time)?

A:

Q: 21) Do you track indirect labor hours, such as vacation, sickness, holiday...? If yes,
define the categories you require and their entry type.

A:

Q: 22) Which financial entries do you currently make for your labor distribution?

A:

Q: 23) How do employees record their working time (time, detail, medium/system)?

A:

1.1.6.4. Time Sheet Permit

Questions:

Q: 1) What is your current timesheet approval strategy for employees and external
services?

A:

Q: 2) Explain the permit procedure for working time or recording of activity allocation for
your employees.

A:

Q: 3) Do you have an external reporting system for working times?

A:

Q: 4) How many employees does the person responsible for approval manage?

A:

1.1.6.5. Forwarding of Time Sheet Data to PM

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to transfer recorded activity allocations to Controlling using the time
sheet?

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A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) How often does this transfer take place (daily, weekly and so on)?

A:

Q: 3) Which time sheet-based reports do you require (for example, employee utilization,
employee hours by cost center)?

A:

1.1.6.6. Time Sheet Report

Questions:

Q: 1) Which time sheet-based reports do you require (for example, employee utilization,
employee hours by cost center)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you need to see days that have not timesheet entries?

A:

Q: 3) Do you need an evaluation, do see the days on which personnel enter more than
a defined number of hours?

A:

Q: 4) Do you have to see the employee name in the documents for the receiving
component?

A:

Q: 5) Do different roles need to see different timesheet information? (If yes, create
report variants.)

A:

1.1.6.7. Service Entry Sheet

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you wish to process or document completion of the services performed by the

service provider?

A:

1.1.6.8. Entry of Technical Findings

Questions:

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Q: 1) Do you record technical information (for example, which part of the equipment
was broken, damage, cause of damage) about a maintanence problem in order to create a
service history or to enable further evaluations?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) Which technical data should be recorded and who is responsible?

A:

Q: 3) When do you document technical findings?

A:

Q: 4) Do you want to have a coding system, which allows standardized entry of

technical information? If yes, list the different categories (for example, damage), for which you
want to have codes.

A:

1.1.6.9. Measurement Document Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you measure and record the current condition of your equipment in the system
(for example, temperature, pressure, operating time)? Describe the different measuring points
and counters that you require for the different pieces of equipment.

A:

Q: 2) How do you proceed if a measurement reading lies outside of a pre-defined

measurement range?

A:

1.1.6.10.Measurement Document Archiving

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to archive measurement documents? If so,provide a copy of your

document archiving policy. If this is not available, describe specific archiving requirements.

A:

1.1.7. Settlement and Completion

1.1.7.1. Technical Order Completion

Questions:

Q: 1) Who decides whether the work is technically completed and when?

A:

1.1.7.2. Order Settlement

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Questions:

Q: 1) Who settles orders in your company and when?

A:

Q: 2) How do you want to settle maintenance orders in general?

A:

Q: 3) How often and according to which rules do you want to settle orders ?

A:

Q: 4) Do you intend to set up a profit center analysis within your company?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 5) Do you want to examine your cost elements for the settlement of orders in greater
detail?

A:

1.1.7.3. Business Order Completion

Questions:

Q: 1) Who decides whether the work is fully completed (business completion) and
when?

A:

Q: 2) Which criteria do you use to decide whether work is fully completed?

A:

1.1.7.4. Order Archiving

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to archive orders? If so, please provide a copy of your document
archiving policy. If this is not available, describe specific archiving requirements.

A:

Q: 2) How long do you want to retain orders in the system before they are archived?

A:

Q: 3) Do you want to archive orders?

A:

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1.1.7.5. Historical Order - Entry

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you create historical orders to keep track of maintenance work that has
already been completed?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

1.1.8. Information System

1.1.8.1. Evaluations of Plant Maintenance Information System [PMIS]

Questions:

Q: 1) Which analysis system is defined in your company?

A:

Q: 2) Please describe in detail the different analyses/reports that you will use.

A:

1.2. Planned Maintenance Processing

1.2.1. Maintenance Planning

Questions:

Q: 1) Note: For information about the maintenance plan, see documentation on master
data.

A:

1.2.1.1. Maintenance Plan Scheduling

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you schedule your maintenance plans manually, or should the system perform
the scheduling automatically?

A:

1.2.1.2. Maintenance Call Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) Which objects should be generated for maintenance calls?

A:

Q: 2) Should scheduled orders be released automatically when they are created?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

1.2.2. Notification
1.2.2.1. Notification Creation/Processing
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Questions:

Q: 1) Who in your organization is responsible for identifying maintenance work?

A:

Q: 2) Who in your organization is responsible for processing identified work?

A:

Q: 3) How do you prioritize identified work?

A:

Q: 4) Are you restricted to a certain period of time when executing these tasks?

A:

Q: 5) List the business partners (internal and/or external) whose address information
you require when creating the notification. Add other business partners, if necessary.

A:

Q: 6) Do you want to be able to process related notification and order data collectively
in a single form?

A:

Q: 7) Do you want information about the reference object displayed automatically when
a notification is created? If yes, what information?

A:

Q: 8) How do you describe a problem? Do you enter a verbal problem description or do

you use standardized codes, for example, to determine the damage, cause of damage, or
object part?

A:

Q: 9) Do you want to link digitalized documents to notifications?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 10) Do you assign a responsible person to each task?

A:

Q: 11) Should the person responsible for a task be informed automatically by the
system?
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Q: 12) How do you want to configure the interface for your notification with regard to
control data, breakdown data, activity data, and task data?

A:

Q: 13) Do you have standard tasks that you always perform for different types of
notifications? If yes, please describe them in detail.

A:

Q: 14) Do you record the performed activities that solved the customer problem in a
standardized way (for example, using standardized codes) in order to evaluate possible
solutions for a problem?

A:

Q: 15) Do you want to set up an escalation workflow for notifications and tasks?

A:

Q: 16) Do you want to use paging in your company as an additional form of

communication?

A:

Q: 17) How and when are notifications completed?

A:

1.2.2.2. Notification Printing

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you print notifications?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) Provide some examples of the output format(s) for notifications.

1.2.3. Order
1.2.3.1. Order Creation/Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) What different types of maintenance do you have in your company (for example,
preventive maintenance, repair, installation)? Create a list of the maintenance types and
outline the differences in planning and execution.

A:
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Q: 2) Mark in the following list whether maintenance tasks are performed by employees
and/or contractors.

A:

Q: 3) What information about labor resources (for example, availability and number of
people, duration of work, split of operation) do you require from the system when planning
maintenance orders?

A:

Q: 4) How do you proceed with an external assignment with the sub-contractor?

Choose one or more of the following options.

A:

Q: 5) Do you want to be able to process related notification and order data collectively
in a single form?

A:

Q: 6) Will several technicians work on the same maintenance task?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 7) Do you want to assign individual operations to particular people?

A:

Q: 8) Do you want to configure a special search help for partners in your order?

A:

Q: 9) For which operation types do you want to represent the operation description
using service specifications?

A:

Q: 10) Do you want to define skills and/or qualifications for maintenance order
operations?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 11) Do you provide the technicians who perform the preventive maintenance with a
list of activities? If yes, how detailed are they?

A:

Q: 12) Do you use pre-defined task lists in work order planning?

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A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 13) If yes, which of the following types of task lists do you require?

A:

Q: 14) Do you assign materials (spare parts) to work orders during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 15) Which rules do you use to determine material availability (for example, daily
requirements, individual requirements)?

A:

Q: 16) How do you want to plan materials that must be purchased during the planning
phase?

A:

Q: 17) Do you want to generate purchase requisitions and reservations when the order
is created?

A:

Q: 18) Do you want to create purchase requisitions directly from the maintenance order
during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 19) Do you want to generate collective purchase requisitions or individual purchase

requisitions for each external item?

A:

Q: 20) How do you want to plan special tools, documents and so on, which are required
to execute maintenance activities?

A:

Q: 21) Do you use work order permits, for example, to manage working conditions or
safety matters?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

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Q: 22) At what intervals do you want to schedule work (for example, daily, weekly,
monthly)?

A:

Q: 23) How do you want to prioritize work?

A:

Q: 24) At which level do you plan work (for example, for a shift, crew, skill, qualification,
or an individual person and so on)?

A:

Q: 25) How detailed is your planning (for example, usage backlog, capacity evaluation,
capacity scheduling)?

A:

Q: 26) Should the capacity load, which was formed for all the capacity types of the PP
work centers, be reduced for the duration of a maintenance task planned in a work order?

A:

Q: 27) Do you want to use paging in your company as an additional form of

communication?

A:

Q: 28) Do you use maintenance orders for processing investment measures? If yes,
should the asset under construction be created automatically or manually?

A:

Q: 29) Do you want the maintenance order to be integrated with one of the following
Controlling components?

A:
1.2.3.2. Material Planning

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you assign materials (spare parts) to work orders during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) Who performs material planning for orders in your company?

A:

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Q: 3) Which rules do you use to determine material availability (for example, daily
requirements, individual requirements)?

A:

Q: 4) How do you want to plan materials that must be purchased during the planning
phase?

A:

Q: 5) Do you want to create purchase requisitions directly from the maintenance order
during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 6) Is there an approval procedure for external purchase orders and material

withdrawals? If yes, describe it.

A:

1.2.3.3. Order Permit

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you consider permits in connection with orders, for example, with regard to
working conditions or safety aspects? If yes, describe your permit procedures.

A:

Q: 2) If yes, who in your company is authorized to issue permits?

A:

1.2.3.4. Order Release

Questions:

Q: 1) Who in your organization is allowed to release maintenance orders (for example,

maintenance planner, dispatcher)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you need to restrict the release until a process is completed or authorization

obtained? If yes, describe the process.

A:

Q: 3) Are there instances where orders should be released automatically?

A:

1.2.3.5. Work Clearance Management

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Questions:

Q: 1) What should be the relationship between the objects in Work Clearance

Management (order, work approval, work clearance application, work clearance document
and so on)?

A:

Q: 2) Do conflicts exist between the conditions of different technical objects? Define

these.

A:

Q: 3) Which different approval steps are required for your work clearance process?
Describe the concept or process flow of your approval process.

A:

Q: 4) Which employee is responsible for which types of approvals? Describe the

applications.

A:

Q: 5) Which employee should be informed about which subject or object condition at

which time?

A:

Q: 6) Should the employees involved later in the approval process be informed

automatically of the progress of previous approval levels (Workflow)?

A:

1.2.3.6. Order Printing

Questions:

Q: 1) Identify the internal papers that you require for the different people and order
types involved (for example, job ticket for employee, picking list).

A:

Q: 2) Provide some representative layout examples.

Q: 3) Do you assign printers to the people involved?

A:

1.2.3.7. Order Execution

Questions:

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Q: 1) Note: This process is only for maintenance activities performed manually on

technical systems by the technician.

A:

Q: 2) How is material withdrawn for the order?

A:

Q: 3) Do you work with closed or open warehouses?

A:

Q: 4) Should the warehouse be informed of imminent material withdrawals using a

material availability slip?

A:

1.2.4. Capacity Planning

1.2.4.1. Capacity Evaluation

Questions:

Q: 1) Is it necessary to determine if a person is available to do a task? (If yes, consider

using employee shift scheduling.)

A:

Q: 2) Do you want to change capacity/work centers for periods with overload? (If yes,
consider changing the work center/assignment/activity dates manually from the evaluation
reports.)

A:

Q: 3) Do you do short term capacity planning? (If yes, ensure the time horizon for the
capacity evalution reflects the appropriate time period. If no, ensure the time horizon for the
capacity evaluation reflects the appropriate time period.)

A:

Q: 4) Do you utilize your personnel resources/capacities per process or enterprise-

wide? (If yes, consider using work center hierarchies.)

A:

Q: 5) Are resources to be shared across departments (for example plant maintenance

and projets)?

A:

Q: 6) Which order type do you want to use for capacity evaluation?

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1.2.4.2. Capacity Dispatching and Leveling

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you process the overload on capacities/wk centers? (If yes, you could use the
capacity leveling functions- dispatching and deallocating).

A:

Q: 2) Do you prefer to use a graphical planning tool for capacity leveling? (If yes, use
the graphical capacity planning tool If no, consider using the tabular capacity planning tool.)

A:

Q: 3) Do you want to assign available capacities to order operations?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 4) When you split order operations, do you want the system to create capacity loads
automatically for individual people?

A:

Q: 5) Which type of planning table do you want to use?

A:

Q: 6) Which planning strategies will you use for Sequencing?

A:
1.2.5. Modification of Technical Systems
1.2.5.1. Installation, Dismantling and Modification of Equipment

Questions:

Q: 1) Are installation operations in your company performed by your own technicians or

assigned externally?

A:

Q: 2) How are dismantling procedures performed at your company?

A:

Q: 3) Which components are exchanged?

A:

Q: 4) Are dismantled parts refurbished? If yes, describe the refurbishment process.

A:
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Q: 5) Should a history be managed for the exchanged parts?

A:

Q: 6) Who documents the modification of a technical system and when?

A:

Q: 7) Do changes also have to be made to the system master during modification work?

A:

1.2.6. Material Movements

1.2.6.1. Goods Issue Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) Who posts the goods issue?

A:

Q: 2) How do you record materials issued from stores?

A:

Q: 3) How do you document materials supplied by the subcontractors?

A:

Q: 4) How will the consumption of these parts be recorded and who will post their
withdrawal in the system?

A:

Q: 5) How do you document materials that are ordered for specific work orders?

A:

Q: 6) How do you wish to document which materials were received specifically for a
work order?

A:

Q: 7) How much time elapses between the actual goods issue and its posting in the
system?

A:

Q: 8) Is the posting made online or in batch mode?

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Q: 9) Are deliveries posted individually or for each group of goods issues?

A:

Q: 10) Is stock posted to the receiving site? If so, which type of stock (stock in transit,
available stock, etc.)?

A:

Q: 11) Which documents are generated in conjunction with this posting and what
information do they contain?

A:

1.2.7. Completion Confirmation

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you or your employees enter completion confirmations of time?

A:

Q: 2) Who confirms orders in your company?

A:

Q: 3) Are the completion confirmations in your company entered at the level of

personnel number?

A:

Q: 4) Should the superior approve the times recorded by the employees?

A:

Q: 5) Do you also want to confirm used material at the same time as the time
confirmation?

A:

Q: 6) Should the technical completion (for example, for breakdown times, causes of
damage, tasks and so on) be made at the same time as the time confirmation?

A:

Q: 7) Do you also want to enter measurement readings with the completion

confirmation?

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Q: 8) Do you use the integration with the HR module?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 9) Do you create completion confirmations centrally, or does each employee enter

their own times themselves?

A:

Q: 10) Do you issue confirmation slips to your employees?

A:

Q: 11) How many times per day do your employees enter their working time?

A:

Q: 12) Will you use a Plant Data Collection (PDC) system for your completion
confirmations?

A:

Q: 13) Do you enter the working times of contractors? If yes, how should the external
services be entered?

A:
1.2.7.1. Individual Time Confirmation

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you enter the absolute duration or period of time (from...to)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you differentiate the times entered according to other activitiy types (for
example, to distinguish between normal work hours and overtime)?

A:

Q: 3) Is the confirmation of your services person-based?

A:

Q: 4) In what unit and with what accuracy do you want to enter services?

A:

1.2.7.2. Overall Completion Confirmation

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Questions:

Q: 1) Which employees confirm which data?

A:

Q: 2) Are internal services confirmed?

A:

1.2.7.3. Time Sheet Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) In which systems do you track employee master data? Are wage rates only
maintained in the R/3 System or in other systems too?

A:

Q: 2) Do you use this data as a basis for indirect activity allocation to cost objects, cost
centers, inernal orders and so on?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 3) Explain how such a time sheet is structured today and how it should be structured
in future (what information do you need on the time sheet?).

A:

Q: 4) Does everyone who records working time have a personal number in HR? (If not,
CATS is not supported.)

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 5) Which of your employees should fill out timesheets?

A:

Q: 6) How do your employees enter and track working times?

A:

Q: 7) Are the labor costs calculated based on actual costs or standard rates?

A:

Q: 8) How do you determine these labor rates?

A:
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Q: 9) Please explain the procedure, how employees in your company track and report
time today.

A:

Q: 10) In which system do you want to run payroll?

A:

Q: 11) Are there special conditions for labor costs when employees work in different
countries or for different profit centers (for example, if an employee from the UK works on a
project in Germany)?

A:

Q: 12) Do you enter labor in complete hours or clock time?

A:

Q: 13) How do your employees enter trip costs? Are the trips linked to the recording of
working time? Describe in detail.

A:

Q: 14) Do you use the SAP employee reporting system?

A:

Q: 15) Identify the different categories of activity (activity types) that you use for
estimation, planning and settlement purposes?

A:

Q: 16) What are the various cost collectors, to which employees will charge time (for
example, cost centers, projects, internal orders)?

A:

Q: 17) Do sub-contractors and other third party labor sources have to enter work using
timesheets?

A:

Q: 18) Are these external services settled to a cost center or directly to the project?

A:

Q: 19) Do you record overtime?

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A:

Q: 20) How is the cost of overtime calculated? Do you have different types of overtime
(for example, time and a half, double time)?

A:

Q: 21) Do you track indirect labor hours, such as vacation, sickness, holiday...? If yes,
define the categories you require and their entry type.

A:

Q: 22) Which financial entries do you currently make for your labor distribution?

A:

Q: 23) How do employees record their working time (time, detail, medium/system)?

A:

1.2.7.4. Time Sheet Permit

Questions:

Q: 1) What is your current timesheet approval strategy for employees and external
services?

A:

Q: 2) Explain the permit procedure for working time or recording of activity allocation for
your employees.

A:

Q: 3) Do you have an external reporting system for working times?

A:

Q: 4) How many employees does the person responsible for approval manage?

A:

1.2.7.5. Forwarding of Time Sheet Data to PM

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to transfer recorded activity allocations to Controlling using the time
sheet?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

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Q: 2) How often does this transfer take place (daily, weekly and so on)?

A:

Q: 3) Which time sheet-based reports do you require (for example, employee utilization,
employee hours by cost center)?

A:

1.2.7.6. Time Sheet Report

Questions:

Q: 1) Which time sheet-based reports do you require (for example, employee utilization,
employee hours by cost center)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you need to see days that have not timesheet entries?

A:

Q: 3) Do you need an evaluation, do see the days on which personnel enter more than
a defined number of hours?

A:

Q: 4) Do you have to see the employee name in the documents for the receiving
component?

A:

Q: 5) Do different roles need to see different timesheet information? (If yes, create
report variants.)

A:

1.2.7.7. Service Entry Sheet

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you wish to process or document completion of the services performed by the

service provider?

A:

1.2.7.8. Measurement Document Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you measure and record the current condition of your equipment in the system
(for example, temperature, pressure, operating time)? Describe the different measuring points
and counters that you require for the different pieces of equipment.

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A:

Q: 2) How do you proceed if a measurement reading lies outside of a pre-defined

measurement range?

A:

1.2.7.9. Measurement Document Archiving

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to archive measurement documents? If so,provide a copy of your

document archiving policy. If this is not available, describe specific archiving requirements.

A:

1.2.8. Settlement and Completion

1.2.8.1. Technical Order Completion

Questions:

Q: 1) Who decides whether the work is technically completed and when?

A:

1.2.8.2. Order Settlement

Questions:

Q: 1) Who settles orders in your company and when?

A:

Q: 2) How do you want to settle maintenance orders in general?

A:

Q: 3) How often and according to which rules do you want to settle orders ?

A:

Q: 4) Do you intend to set up a profit center analysis within your company?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 5) Do you want to examine your cost elements for the settlement of orders in greater
detail?

A:

1.2.8.3. Business Order Completion

Questions:

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Q: 1) Who decides whether the work is fully completed (business completion) and
when?

A:

Q: 2) Which criteria do you use to decide whether work is fully completed?

A:

1.2.8.4. Order Archiving

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to archive orders? If so, please provide a copy of your document
archiving policy. If this is not available, describe specific archiving requirements.

A:

Q: 2) How long do you want to retain orders in the system before they are archived?

A:

Q: 3) Do you want to archive orders?

A:

1.2.8.5. Historical Order - Entry

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you create historical orders to keep track of maintenance work that has
already been completed?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

1.2.9. Information System

1.2.9.1. Evaluations of Plant Maintenance Information System [PMIS]

Questions:

Q: 1) Which analysis system is defined in your company?

A:

Q: 2) Please describe in detail the different analyses/reports that you will use.

A:

1.3. Project-Based Maintenance Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you have shutdowns in plants or plant areas, for which you require an exact
process flow for planning, execution, budget controlling, investment capitalization and so on?

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Q: 2) Which tool do you currently use for project management?

A:

1.3.1. Notification
1.3.1.1. Notification Creation/Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) Who in your organization is responsible for identifying maintenance work?

A:

Q: 2) Who in your organization is responsible for processing identified work?

A:

Q: 3) How do you prioritize identified work?

A:

Q: 4) Are you restricted to a certain period of time when executing these tasks?

A:

Q: 5) List the business partners (internal and/or external) whose address information
you require when creating the notification. Add other business partners, if necessary.

A:

Q: 6) Do you want to be able to process related notification and order data collectively
in a single form?

A:

Q: 7) Do you want information about the reference object displayed automatically when
a notification is created? If yes, what information?

A:

Q: 8) How do you describe a problem? Do you enter a verbal problem description or do

you use standardized codes, for example, to determine the damage, cause of damage, or
object part?

A:

Q: 9) Do you want to link digitalized documents to notifications?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No
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Q: 10) Do you assign a responsible person to each task?

A:

Q: 11) Should the person responsible for a task be informed automatically by the
system?

A:

Q: 12) How do you want to configure the interface for your notification with regard to
control data, breakdown data, activity data, and task data?

A:

Q: 13) Do you have standard tasks that you always perform for different types of
notifications? If yes, please describe them in detail.

A:

Q: 14) Do you record the performed activities that solved the customer problem in a
standardized way (for example, using standardized codes) in order to evaluate possible
solutions for a problem?

A:

Q: 15) Do you want to set up an escalation workflow for notifications and tasks?

A:

Q: 16) Do you want to use paging in your company as an additional form of

communication?

A:

Q: 17) How and when are notifications completed?

A:

1.3.1.2. Notification Printing

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you print notifications?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) Provide some examples of the output format(s) for notifications.

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1.3.2. Order
1.3.2.1. Order Creation/Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) What different types of maintenance do you have in your company (for example,
preventive maintenance, repair, installation)? Create a list of the maintenance types and
outline the differences in planning and execution.

A:

Q: 2) Mark in the following list whether maintenance tasks are performed by employees
and/or contractors.

A:

Q: 3) What information about labor resources (for example, availability and number of
people, duration of work, split of operation) do you require from the system when planning
maintenance orders?

A:

Q: 4) How do you proceed with an external assignment with the sub-contractor?

Choose one or more of the following options.

A:

Q: 5) Do you want to be able to process related notification and order data collectively
in a single form?

A:

Q: 6) Will several technicians work on the same maintenance task?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 7) Do you want to assign individual operations to particular people?

A:

Q: 8) Do you want to configure a special search help for partners in your order?

A:

Q: 9) For which operation types do you want to represent the operation description
using service specifications?

A:

Q: 10) Do you want to define skills and/or qualifications for maintenance order
operations?

A: [ ]Yes
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[ ]No

Q: 11) Do you provide the technicians who perform the preventive maintenance with a
list of activities? If yes, how detailed are they?

A:

Q: 12) Do you use pre-defined task lists in work order planning?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 13) If yes, which of the following types of task lists do you require?

A:

Q: 14) Do you assign materials (spare parts) to work orders during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 15) Which rules do you use to determine material availability (for example, daily
requirements, individual requirements)?

A:

Q: 16) How do you want to plan materials that must be purchased during the planning
phase?

A:

Q: 17) Do you want to generate purchase requisitions and reservations when the order
is created?

A:

Q: 18) Do you want to create purchase requisitions directly from the maintenance order
during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 19) Do you want to generate collective purchase requisitions or individual purchase

requisitions for each external item?

A:

Q: 20) How do you want to plan special tools, documents and so on, which are required
to execute maintenance activities?

A:
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Q: 21) Do you use work order permits, for example, to manage working conditions or
safety matters?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 22) At what intervals do you want to schedule work (for example, daily, weekly,
monthly)?

A:

Q: 23) How do you want to prioritize work?

A:

Q: 24) At which level do you plan work (for example, for a shift, crew, skill, qualification,
or an individual person and so on)?

A:

Q: 25) How detailed is your planning (for example, usage backlog, capacity evaluation,
capacity scheduling)?

A:

Q: 26) Should the capacity load, which was formed for all the capacity types of the PP
work centers, be reduced for the duration of a maintenance task planned in a work order?

A:

Q: 27) Do you want to use paging in your company as an additional form of

communication?

A:

Q: 28) Do you use maintenance orders for processing investment measures? If yes,
should the asset under construction be created automatically or manually?

A:

Q: 29) Do you want the maintenance order to be integrated with one of the following
Controlling components?

A:
1.3.2.2. Material Planning

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you assign materials (spare parts) to work orders during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
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[ ]No

Q: 2) Who performs material planning for orders in your company?

A:

Q: 3) Which rules do you use to determine material availability (for example, daily
requirements, individual requirements)?

A:

Q: 4) How do you want to plan materials that must be purchased during the planning
phase?

A:

Q: 5) Do you want to create purchase requisitions directly from the maintenance order
during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 6) Is there an approval procedure for external purchase orders and material

withdrawals? If yes, describe it.

A:

1.3.2.3. Order Permit

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you consider permits in connection with orders, for example, with regard to
working conditions or safety aspects? If yes, describe your permit procedures.

A:

Q: 2) If yes, who in your company is authorized to issue permits?

A:

1.3.2.4. Order Release

Questions:

Q: 1) Who in your organization is allowed to release maintenance orders (for example,

maintenance planner, dispatcher)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you need to restrict the release until a process is completed or authorization

obtained? If yes, describe the process.

A:
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Q: 3) Are there instances where orders should be released automatically?

A:

1.3.2.5. Work Clearance Management

Questions:

Q: 1) What should be the relationship between the objects in Work Clearance

Management (order, work approval, work clearance application, work clearance document
and so on)?

A:

Q: 2) Do conflicts exist between the conditions of different technical objects? Define

these.

A:

Q: 3) Which different approval steps are required for your work clearance process?
Describe the concept or process flow of your approval process.

A:

Q: 4) Which employee is responsible for which types of approvals? Describe the

applications.

A:

Q: 5) Which employee should be informed about which subject or object condition at

which time?

A:

Q: 6) Should the employees involved later in the approval process be informed

automatically of the progress of previous approval levels (Workflow)?

A:

1.3.2.6. Order Printing

Questions:

Q: 1) Identify the internal papers that you require for the different people and order
types involved (for example, job ticket for employee, picking list).

A:

Q: 2) Provide some representative layout examples.

Q: 3) Do you assign printers to the people involved?

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A:

1.3.2.7. Order Execution

Questions:

Q: 1) Note: This process is only for maintenance activities performed manually on

technical systems by the technician.

A:

Q: 2) How is material withdrawn for the order?

A:

Q: 3) Do you work with closed or open warehouses?

A:

Q: 4) Should the warehouse be informed of imminent material withdrawals using a

material availability slip?

A:

1.3.3. Capacity Planning

1.3.3.1. Capacity Evaluation

Questions:

Q: 1) Is it necessary to determine if a person is available to do a task? (If yes, consider

using employee shift scheduling.)

A:

Q: 2) Do you want to change capacity/work centers for periods with overload? (If yes,
consider changing the work center/assignment/activity dates manually from the evaluation
reports.)

A:

Q: 3) Do you do short term capacity planning? (If yes, ensure the time horizon for the
capacity evalution reflects the appropriate time period. If no, ensure the time horizon for the
capacity evaluation reflects the appropriate time period.)

A:

Q: 4) Do you utilize your personnel resources/capacities per process or enterprise-

wide? (If yes, consider using work center hierarchies.)

A:

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Q: 5) Are resources to be shared across departments (for example plant maintenance

and projets)?

A:

Q: 6) Which order type do you want to use for capacity evaluation?

A:
1.3.3.2. Capacity Dispatching and Leveling

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you process the overload on capacities/wk centers? (If yes, you could use the
capacity leveling functions- dispatching and deallocating).

A:

Q: 2) Do you prefer to use a graphical planning tool for capacity leveling? (If yes, use
the graphical capacity planning tool If no, consider using the tabular capacity planning tool.)

A:

Q: 3) Do you want to assign available capacities to order operations?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 4) When you split order operations, do you want the system to create capacity loads
automatically for individual people?

A:

Q: 5) Which type of planning table do you want to use?

A:

Q: 6) Which planning strategies will you use for Sequencing?

A:
1.3.4. Modification of Technical Systems
1.3.4.1. Installation, Dismantling and Modification of Equipment

Questions:

Q: 1) Are installation operations in your company performed by your own technicians or

assigned externally?

A:

Q: 2) How are dismantling procedures performed at your company?

A:

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Q: 3) Which components are exchanged?

A:

Q: 4) Are dismantled parts refurbished? If yes, describe the refurbishment process.

A:

Q: 5) Should a history be managed for the exchanged parts?

A:

Q: 6) Who documents the modification of a technical system and when?

A:

Q: 7) Do changes also have to be made to the system master during modification work?

A:

1.3.5. Material Movements

1.3.5.1. Goods Issue Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) Who posts the goods issue?

A:

Q: 2) How do you record materials issued from stores?

A:

Q: 3) How do you document materials supplied by the subcontractors?

A:

Q: 4) How will the consumption of these parts be recorded and who will post their
withdrawal in the system?

A:

Q: 5) How do you document materials that are ordered for specific work orders?

A:

Q: 6) How do you wish to document which materials were received specifically for a
work order?

A:

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Q: 7) How much time elapses between the actual goods issue and its posting in the
system?

A:

Q: 8) Is the posting made online or in batch mode?

A:

Q: 9) Are deliveries posted individually or for each group of goods issues?

A:

Q: 10) Is stock posted to the receiving site? If so, which type of stock (stock in transit,
available stock, etc.)?

A:

Q: 11) Which documents are generated in conjunction with this posting and what
information do they contain?

A:

1.3.6. Completion Confirmation

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you or your employees enter completion confirmations of time?

A:

Q: 2) Who confirms orders in your company?

A:

Q: 3) Are the completion confirmations in your company entered at the level of

personnel number?

A:

Q: 4) Should the superior approve the times recorded by the employees?

A:

Q: 5) Do you also want to confirm used material at the same time as the time
confirmation?

A:

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Q: 6) Should the technical completion (for example, for breakdown times, causes of
damage, tasks and so on) be made at the same time as the time confirmation?

A:

Q: 7) Do you also want to enter measurement readings with the completion

confirmation?

A:

Q: 8) Do you use the integration with the HR module?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 9) Do you create completion confirmations centrally, or does each employee enter

their own times themselves?

A:

Q: 10) Do you issue confirmation slips to your employees?

A:

Q: 11) How many times per day do your employees enter their working time?

A:

Q: 12) Will you use a Plant Data Collection (PDC) system for your completion
confirmations?

A:

Q: 13) Do you enter the working times of contractors? If yes, how should the external
services be entered?

A:
1.3.6.1. Individual Time Confirmation

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you enter the absolute duration or period of time (from...to)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you differentiate the times entered according to other activitiy types (for
example, to distinguish between normal work hours and overtime)?

A:

Q: 3) Is the confirmation of your services person-based?

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Q: 4) In what unit and with what accuracy do you want to enter services?

A:

1.3.6.2. Overall Completion Confirmation

Questions:

Q: 1) Which employees confirm which data?

A:

Q: 2) Are internal services confirmed?

A:

1.3.6.3. Time Sheet Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) In which systems do you track employee master data? Are wage rates only
maintained in the R/3 System or in other systems too?

A:

Q: 2) Do you use this data as a basis for indirect activity allocation to cost objects, cost
centers, inernal orders and so on?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 3) Explain how such a time sheet is structured today and how it should be structured
in future (what information do you need on the time sheet?).

A:

Q: 4) Does everyone who records working time have a personal number in HR? (If not,
CATS is not supported.)

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 5) Which of your employees should fill out timesheets?

A:

Q: 6) How do your employees enter and track working times?

A:

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Q: 7) Are the labor costs calculated based on actual costs or standard rates?

A:

Q: 8) How do you determine these labor rates?

A:

Q: 9) Please explain the procedure, how employees in your company track and report
time today.

A:

Q: 10) In which system do you want to run payroll?

A:

Q: 11) Are there special conditions for labor costs when employees work in different
countries or for different profit centers (for example, if an employee from the UK works on a
project in Germany)?

A:

Q: 12) Do you enter labor in complete hours or clock time?

A:

Q: 13) How do your employees enter trip costs? Are the trips linked to the recording of
working time? Describe in detail.

A:

Q: 14) Do you use the SAP employee reporting system?

A:

Q: 15) Identify the different categories of activity (activity types) that you use for
estimation, planning and settlement purposes?

A:

Q: 16) What are the various cost collectors, to which employees will charge time (for
example, cost centers, projects, internal orders)?

A:

Q: 17) Do sub-contractors and other third party labor sources have to enter work using
timesheets?

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A:

Q: 18) Are these external services settled to a cost center or directly to the project?

A:

Q: 19) Do you record overtime?

A:

Q: 20) How is the cost of overtime calculated? Do you have different types of overtime
(for example, time and a half, double time)?

A:

Q: 21) Do you track indirect labor hours, such as vacation, sickness, holiday...? If yes,
define the categories you require and their entry type.

A:

Q: 22) Which financial entries do you currently make for your labor distribution?

A:

Q: 23) How do employees record their working time (time, detail, medium/system)?

A:

1.3.6.4. Time Sheet Permit

Questions:

Q: 1) What is your current timesheet approval strategy for employees and external
services?

A:

Q: 2) Explain the permit procedure for working time or recording of activity allocation for
your employees.

A:

Q: 3) Do you have an external reporting system for working times?

A:

Q: 4) How many employees does the person responsible for approval manage?

A:

1.3.6.5. Forwarding of Time Sheet Data to PM

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Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to transfer recorded activity allocations to Controlling using the time
sheet?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) How often does this transfer take place (daily, weekly and so on)?

A:

Q: 3) Which time sheet-based reports do you require (for example, employee utilization,
employee hours by cost center)?

A:

1.3.6.6. Time Sheet Report

Questions:

Q: 1) Which time sheet-based reports do you require (for example, employee utilization,
employee hours by cost center)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you need to see days that have not timesheet entries?

A:

Q: 3) Do you need an evaluation, do see the days on which personnel enter more than
a defined number of hours?

A:

Q: 4) Do you have to see the employee name in the documents for the receiving
component?

A:

Q: 5) Do different roles need to see different timesheet information? (If yes, create
report variants.)

A:

1.3.6.7. Service Entry Sheet

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you wish to process or document completion of the services performed by the

service provider?

A:
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1.3.6.8. Measurement Document Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you measure and record the current condition of your equipment in the system
(for example, temperature, pressure, operating time)? Describe the different measuring points
and counters that you require for the different pieces of equipment.

A:

Q: 2) How do you proceed if a measurement reading lies outside of a pre-defined

measurement range?

A:

1.3.6.9. Measurement Document Archiving

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to archive measurement documents? If so,provide a copy of your

document archiving policy. If this is not available, describe specific archiving requirements.

A:

1.3.7. Settlement and Completion

1.3.7.1. Technical Order Completion

Questions:

Q: 1) Who decides whether the work is technically completed and when?

A:

1.3.7.2. Order Settlement

Questions:

Q: 1) Who settles orders in your company and when?

A:

Q: 2) How do you want to settle maintenance orders in general?

A:

Q: 3) How often and according to which rules do you want to settle orders ?

A:

Q: 4) Do you intend to set up a profit center analysis within your company?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

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Q: 5) Do you want to examine your cost elements for the settlement of orders in greater
detail?

A:

1.3.7.3. Business Order Completion

Questions:

Q: 1) Who decides whether the work is fully completed (business completion) and
when?

A:

Q: 2) Which criteria do you use to decide whether work is fully completed?

A:

1.3.7.4. Order Archiving

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to archive orders? If so, please provide a copy of your document
archiving policy. If this is not available, describe specific archiving requirements.

A:

Q: 2) How long do you want to retain orders in the system before they are archived?

A:

Q: 3) Do you want to archive orders?

A:

1.3.7.5. Historical Order - Entry

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you create historical orders to keep track of maintenance work that has
already been completed?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

1.3.8. Information System

1.3.8.1. Evaluations of Plant Maintenance Information System [PMIS]

Questions:

Q: 1) Which analysis system is defined in your company?

A:

Q: 2) Please describe in detail the different analyses/reports that you will use.

A:
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1.4. Refurbishment Processing in Plant Maintenance

1.4.1. Order
1.4.1.1. Refurbishment Order Creation/Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) What different types of maintenance do you have in your company (for example,
preventive maintenance, repair, installation)? Create a list of the maintenance types and
outline the differences in planning and execution.

A:

Q: 2) Do you use maintenance orders for the refurbishment of materials?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 3) If yes, describe the refurbishment process and the valuation of refurbishment

material in detail.

A:

Q: 4) Mark in the following list whether maintenance tasks are performed by employees
and/or contractors.

A:

Q: 5) What information about labor resources (for example, availability and number of
people, duration of work, split of operation) do you require from the system when planning
maintenance orders?

A:

Q: 6) How do you proceed with an external assignment with the sub-contractor?

Choose one or more of the following options.

A:

Q: 7) Do you want to be able to process related notification and order data collectively
in a single form?

A:

Q: 8) Will several technicians work on the same maintenance task?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 9) Do you want to assign individual operations to particular people?

A:

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Q: 10) Do you want to configure a special search help for partners in your order?

A:

Q: 11) For which operation types do you want to represent the operation description
using service specifications?

A:

Q: 12) Do you want to define skills and/or qualifications for maintenance order
operations?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 13) Do you provide the technicians who perform the preventive maintenance with a
list of activities? If yes, how detailed are they?

A:

Q: 14) Do you use pre-defined task lists in work order planning?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 15) If yes, which of the following types of task lists do you require?

A:

Q: 16) Do you assign materials (spare parts) to work orders during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 17) Which rules do you use to determine material availability (for example, daily
requirements, individual requirements)?

A:

Q: 18) How do you want to plan materials that must be purchased during the planning
phase?

A:

Q: 19) Do you want to generate purchase requisitions and reservations when the order
is created?

A:

Q: 20) Do you want to create purchase requisitions directly from the maintenance order
during the planning phase?
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A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 21) Do you want to generate collective purchase requisitions or individual purchase

requisitions for each external item?

A:

Q: 22) How do you want to plan special tools, documents and so on, which are required
to execute maintenance activities?

A:

Q: 23) Do you use work order permits, for example, to manage working conditions or
safety matters?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 24) At what intervals do you want to schedule work (for example, daily, weekly,
monthly)?

A:

Q: 25) How do you want to prioritize work?

A:

Q: 26) At which level do you plan work (for example, for a shift, crew, skill, qualification,
or an individual person and so on)?

A:

Q: 27) How detailed is your planning (for example, usage backlog, capacity evaluation,
capacity scheduling)?

A:

Q: 28) Should the capacity load, which was formed for all the capacity types of the PP
work centers, be reduced for the duration of a maintenance task planned in a work order?

A:

Q: 29) Do you want to use paging in your company as an additional form of

communication?

A:

1.4.1.2. Material Planning

Questions:
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Q: 1) Do you assign materials (spare parts) to work orders during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) Who performs material planning for orders in your company?

A:

Q: 3) Which rules do you use to determine material availability (for example, daily
requirements, individual requirements)?

A:

Q: 4) How do you want to plan materials that must be purchased during the planning
phase?

A:

Q: 5) Do you want to create purchase requisitions directly from the maintenance order
during the planning phase?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 6) Is there an approval procedure for external purchase orders and material

withdrawals? If yes, describe it.

A:

1.4.1.3. Order Permit

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you consider permits in connection with orders, for example, with regard to
working conditions or safety aspects? If yes, describe your permit procedures.

A:

Q: 2) If yes, who in your company is authorized to issue permits?

A:

1.4.1.4. Order Release

Questions:

Q: 1) Who in your organization is allowed to release maintenance orders (for example,

maintenance planner, dispatcher)?

A:

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Q: 2) Do you need to restrict the release until a process is completed or authorization

obtained? If yes, describe the process.

A:

Q: 3) Are there instances where orders should be released automatically?

A:

1.4.1.5. Order Printing

Questions:

Q: 1) Identify the internal papers that you require for the different people and order
types involved (for example, job ticket for employee, picking list).

A:

Q: 2) Provide some representative layout examples.

Q: 3) Do you assign printers to the people involved?

A:

1.4.1.6. Order Execution

Questions:

Q: 1) Note: This process is only for maintenance activities performed manually on

technical systems by the technician.

A:

Q: 2) How is material withdrawn for the order?

A:

Q: 3) Do you work with closed or open warehouses?

A:

Q: 4) Should the warehouse be informed of imminent material withdrawals using a

material availability slip?

A:

1.4.2. Capacity Planning

1.4.2.1. Capacity Evaluation

Questions:

Q: 1) Is it necessary to determine if a person is available to do a task? (If yes, consider

using employee shift scheduling.)

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A:

Q: 2) Do you want to change capacity/work centers for periods with overload? (If yes,
consider changing the work center/assignment/activity dates manually from the evaluation
reports.)

A:

Q: 3) Do you do short term capacity planning? (If yes, ensure the time horizon for the
capacity evalution reflects the appropriate time period. If no, ensure the time horizon for the
capacity evaluation reflects the appropriate time period.)

A:

Q: 4) Do you utilize your personnel resources/capacities per process or enterprise-

wide? (If yes, consider using work center hierarchies.)

A:

Q: 5) Are resources to be shared across departments (for example plant maintenance

and projets)?

A:

Q: 6) Which order type do you want to use for capacity evaluation?

A:
1.4.2.2. Capacity Dispatching and Leveling

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you process the overload on capacities/wk centers? (If yes, you could use the
capacity leveling functions- dispatching and deallocating).

A:

Q: 2) Do you prefer to use a graphical planning tool for capacity leveling? (If yes, use
the graphical capacity planning tool If no, consider using the tabular capacity planning tool.)

A:

Q: 3) Do you want to assign available capacities to order operations?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 4) When you split order operations, do you want the system to create capacity loads
automatically for individual people?

A:

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Q: 5) Which type of planning table do you want to use?

A:

Q: 6) Which planning strategies will you use for Sequencing?

A:
1.4.3. Goods Movements
1.4.3.1. Goods Issue for Refurbishment

Questions:

Q: 1) What triggers a goods issue?

A:

Q: 2) Who approves the goods issue? (You could use workflow to handle this process.)

A:

Q: 3) Who posts the goods issue?

A:

Q: 4) How much time elapses between the actual goods issue and its posting in the
system?

A:

Q: 5) Is the posting made online or in batch mode?

A:

Q: 6) Which documents are generated in conjunction with this posting and what
information do they contain?

A:

1.4.3.2. Goods Receipt for Refurbishment

Questions:

Q: 1) To which stock do you post materials at the time of their receipt?

A:

Q: 2) Will you post goods you receive to stock in quality inspection?

the goods wherever they should go as a result of the usage decision?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 3) Which goods receipt inspections (which may be triggered by the system) and
which inspection results (e.g. expiration date) are entered in the system?
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Q: 4) Against which reference documents do you effect a goods receipt?

A:

Q: 5) Which information do you use as a basis for planning your goods receipts
(volume, weight, expected time requirements, etc.)?

A:

Q: 6) For which material types do you wish to record data at the time of goods receipt?

A:

Q: 7) Do you physically store the goods you have received into "stock in quality
inspection" at a different location than those posted to normal stock?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 8) Do you allow every material to be stored at all storage locations? Please describe!

A:

Q: 9) Which documents are generated with the goods receipt?

A:

Q: 10) Which documents are generated in connection with a goods receipt?

A:

Q: 11) If you use Warehouse Management, describe the stock put-away process (how
the goods are placed into storage).

A:

Q: 12) If a goods receipt quantity is assigned to a goods issue, do you want the person
who enters the goods receipt to receive a corresponding message?

A:

Q: 13) Will you inspect the material/article at the time of goods receipt? If so, do you
enter the goods receipt and the inspection result or do you only enter the goods receipt after
the inspection has been carried out?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

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Q: 14) If you are using batch management, how is the batch number determined at the
time of goods receipt?

A:

Q: 15) Do you classify the batches at the time of goods receipt? Please specify the
criteria.

A:

Q: 16) Is the automatic account determination process defined by Financial

Accounting? If not, who is responsible within Logistics?

A:

Q: 17) Do you wish to print out the material document as evidence of a goods
movement? Which information should be included in the printout?

A:

1.4.4. Completion Confirmation

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you or your employees enter completion confirmations of time?

A:

Q: 2) Who confirms orders in your company?

A:

Q: 3) Are the completion confirmations in your company entered at the level of

personnel number?

A:

Q: 4) Should the superior approve the times recorded by the employees?

A:

Q: 5) Do you also want to confirm used material at the same time as the time
confirmation?

A:

Q: 6) Should the technical completion (for example, for breakdown times, causes of
damage, tasks and so on) be made at the same time as the time confirmation?

A:

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Q: 7) Do you also want to enter measurement readings with the completion

confirmation?

A:

Q: 8) Do you use the integration with the HR module?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 9) Do you create completion confirmations centrally, or does each employee enter

their own times themselves?

A:

Q: 10) Do you issue confirmation slips to your employees?

A:

Q: 11) How many times per day do your employees enter their working time?

A:

Q: 12) Will you use a Plant Data Collection (PDC) system for your completion
confirmations?

A:

Q: 13) Do you enter the working times of contractors? If yes, how should the external
services be entered?

A:
1.4.4.1. Individual Time Confirmation

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you enter the absolute duration or period of time (from...to)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you differentiate the times entered according to other activitiy types (for
example, to distinguish between normal work hours and overtime)?

A:

Q: 3) Is the confirmation of your services person-based?

A:

Q: 4) In what unit and with what accuracy do you want to enter services?

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A:

1.4.4.2. Overall Completion Confirmation

Questions:

Q: 1) Which employees confirm which data?

A:

Q: 2) Are internal services confirmed?

A:

1.4.4.3. Time Sheet Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) In which systems do you track employee master data? Are wage rates only
maintained in the R/3 System or in other systems too?

A:

Q: 2) Do you use this data as a basis for indirect activity allocation to cost objects, cost
centers, inernal orders and so on?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 3) Explain how such a time sheet is structured today and how it should be structured
in future (what information do you need on the time sheet?).

A:

Q: 4) Does everyone who records working time have a personal number in HR? (If not,
CATS is not supported.)

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 5) Which of your employees should fill out timesheets?

A:

Q: 6) How do your employees enter and track working times?

A:

Q: 7) Are the labor costs calculated based on actual costs or standard rates?

A:

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Q: 8) How do you determine these labor rates?

A:

Q: 9) Please explain the procedure, how employees in your company track and report
time today.

A:

Q: 10) In which system do you want to run payroll?

A:

Q: 11) Are there special conditions for labor costs when employees work in different
countries or for different profit centers (for example, if an employee from the UK works on a
project in Germany)?

A:

Q: 12) Do you enter labor in complete hours or clock time?

A:

Q: 13) How do your employees enter trip costs? Are the trips linked to the recording of
working time? Describe in detail.

A:

Q: 14) Do you use the SAP employee reporting system?

A:

Q: 15) Identify the different categories of activity (activity types) that you use for
estimation, planning and settlement purposes?

A:

Q: 16) What are the various cost collectors, to which employees will charge time (for
example, cost centers, projects, internal orders)?

A:

Q: 17) Do sub-contractors and other third party labor sources have to enter work using
timesheets?

A:

Q: 18) Are these external services settled to a cost center or directly to the project?

A:
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Q: 19) Do you record overtime?

A:

Q: 20) How is the cost of overtime calculated? Do you have different types of overtime
(for example, time and a half, double time)?

A:

Q: 21) Do you track indirect labor hours, such as vacation, sickness, holiday...? If yes,
define the categories you require and their entry type.

A:

Q: 22) Which financial entries do you currently make for your labor distribution?

A:

Q: 23) How do employees record their working time (time, detail, medium/system)?

A:

1.4.4.4. Time Sheet Permit

Questions:

Q: 1) What is your current timesheet approval strategy for employees and external
services?

A:

Q: 2) Explain the permit procedure for working time or recording of activity allocation for
your employees.

A:

Q: 3) Do you have an external reporting system for working times?

A:

Q: 4) How many employees does the person responsible for approval manage?

A:

1.4.4.5. Forwarding of Time Sheet Data to PM

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to transfer recorded activity allocations to Controlling using the time
sheet?

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A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) How often does this transfer take place (daily, weekly and so on)?

A:

Q: 3) Which time sheet-based reports do you require (for example, employee utilization,
employee hours by cost center)?

A:

1.4.4.6. Time Sheet Report

Questions:

Q: 1) Which time sheet-based reports do you require (for example, employee utilization,
employee hours by cost center)?

A:

Q: 2) Do you need to see days that have not timesheet entries?

A:

Q: 3) Do you need an evaluation, do see the days on which personnel enter more than
a defined number of hours?

A:

Q: 4) Do you have to see the employee name in the documents for the receiving
component?

A:

Q: 5) Do different roles need to see different timesheet information? (If yes, create
report variants.)

A:

1.4.4.7. Service Entry Sheet

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you wish to process or document completion of the services performed by the

service provider?

A:

1.4.4.8. Entry of Technical Findings

Questions:

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Q: 1) Do you record technical information (for example, which part of the equipment
was broken, damage, cause of damage) about a maintanence problem in order to create a
service history or to enable further evaluations?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 2) Which technical data should be recorded and who is responsible?

A:

Q: 3) When do you document technical findings?

A:

Q: 4) Do you want to have a coding system, which allows standardized entry of

technical information? If yes, list the different categories (for example, damage), for which you
want to have codes.

A:

1.4.4.9. Measurement Document Processing

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you measure and record the current condition of your equipment in the system
(for example, temperature, pressure, operating time)? Describe the different measuring points
and counters that you require for the different pieces of equipment.

A:

Q: 2) How do you proceed if a measurement reading lies outside of a pre-defined

measurement range?

A:

1.4.4.10.Measurement Document Archiving

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to archive measurement documents? If so,provide a copy of your

document archiving policy. If this is not available, describe specific archiving requirements.

A:

1.4.5. Settlement and Completion

1.4.5.1. Technical Order Completion

Questions:

Q: 1) Who decides whether the work is technically completed and when?

A:

1.4.5.2. Order Settlement

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Questions:

Q: 1) Who settles orders in your company and when?

A:

Q: 2) How do you want to settle maintenance orders in general?

A:

Q: 3) How often and according to which rules do you want to settle orders ?

A:

Q: 4) Where should refurbishment orders be settled?

A:

Q: 5) Do you intend to set up a profit center analysis within your company?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

Q: 6) Do you want to examine your cost elements for the settlement of orders in greater
detail?

A:

1.4.5.3. Business Order Completion

Questions:

Q: 1) Who decides whether the work is fully completed (business completion) and
when?

A:

Q: 2) Which criteria do you use to decide whether work is fully completed?

A:

1.4.5.4. Order Archiving

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you want to archive orders? If so, please provide a copy of your document
archiving policy. If this is not available, describe specific archiving requirements.

A:

Q: 2) How long do you want to retain orders in the system before they are archived?

A:

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Q: 3) Do you want to archive orders?

A:

1.4.5.5. Historical maintenance order - Entry

Questions:

Q: 1) Do you create historical orders to keep track of maintenance work that has
already been completed?

A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No

1.4.6. Information System

1.4.6.1. Evaluations of Plant Maintenance Information System [PMIS]

Questions:

Q: 1) Which analysis system is defined in your company?

A:

Q: 2) Please describe in detail the different analyses/reports that you will use.

A:

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