BASIC QUESTIONS THAT HELPS IN PM IMPLEMENTATION

ESTIMATION

How maintenance is planned within your company? Decentralized, Centralized

or Partial Centralized?

How is capacity planning performed in your maintenance plants?

Are certain types of maintenance work planned or executed with consideration

to the plant sections?

Do you subdivide your maintenance plant in locations to facilitate the

maintenance job or for the purpose of reporting?

How is maintenance work organized?

How are the maintenance teams / labor resources organized?

How are your technical systems structured?

What types of technical objects do you handle (Types of Equipment and

functional location)?

Is the hierarchy for functional locations structured according to spatial,

functional or technical viewpoints? Are Real Estate objects integrated?

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

Do you link documents to functional locations/Equipment?

Do you need to record the performance of functional locations using measuring

points and counters?

Do you track warranties/Guaranties?

Are your technical objects classified (Class/Characteristics) used in your

company?
List and describe the different categories of equipment/Functional Location that
you maintain.

How much equipment and functional location do you manage in your system?

Do you use the Object part, Damage, Cause and Activity analysis?

Do you use the Fleet Maintenance process?

Do you use Equipment BoMs? What's the volume of data?

What types of Task List do you use? What's the volume of data?
Do you use Maintenance Plans (for example Time based or Performance based
or both)?

What maintenance type do you do (for example Breakdown, Corrective,

Calibration, Refurbishment, Preventive etc.)?

Do you have any third party system integrated with SAP PM?

How do you settle the cost and how you see the cost reports on Equipment and
Functional location?

Which reports do you use in SAP PM?