Hi, I am quite new to SAP so as usual please be patient! I've spent a lot of time going through existing discussions but haven't found anything to help me.
I am having 3 main issues:
1) orders being released BEFORE counts reached
2) creating a plan to apply to all equipment requiring the same maintenance cycle
3) plan scheduling
I am attempting to set up performance based planning for a large number of equipment. I have succesfully set up the counters using the following transactions:
CT04 - Create characteristic
IK01 - Create measuring point
IK11 - Create measuring document
I have checked "MeasPoint is Counter" and provided an annual estimate.
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1) With regards to my first problem I have found that creating frequent (daily) measuring documents with 0 difference readings seems to solve this problem. This is necessary as the equipment may be inactive for some periods of time (maintenance or during shutdowns). It would be very useful if there was a way to create these measuring documents automatically at scheduled intervals. Is there?
Also, placing a very low value for the annual estimate also seems to work but this just feels like a wrong way of going about it.
2) I have planned the maintenance by creating a strategy, then a general task list and then using IP42 to plan the maintenance. However this only applies to a single piece of equipment. As there are almost 1000 pieces of equipment that will require maintenance after the same number of counts i was hoping there is a way to create a single plan and then attach each piece of equipment with its counter to follow this plan keeping in mind that each piece of equipment has different use/activity.
3) This seems to be a common problem. When i update the counter reading to surpass the maintence counter value IP10 displays "scheduled - Save to call". I would like not to have to manually go into IP10 every day for each equipment to see if the count has been reached and then save to release the order. I am not authorised to use IP30 which i think would somehow solve this problem. Is this correct?
If IP30 is the only way around this i may be able to request access.
Any insight into any of these issues would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Dominick
