40 Equipment/Plant Maintenance Global Updates

This chapter contains these topics:

40.1 Objectives

  • To make system-wide updates to:

    • · Equipment information

    • · Work order information

    • · PM schedule information

    • · Accounts and ledgers

  • To identify the purpose for each global update program

  • To determine when to use each global update program

40.2 About Equipment/Plant Maintenance Global Updates

Use global update programs to make system-wide changes that affect a variety of information within Equipment/Plant Maintenance. For example, you can:

  • Update tickler dates in the message log

  • Update the search word table when you add new equipment

  • Create PM schedules for groups of similar equipment

  • Make additions or changes to groups of related PM schedules, such as:

    • · Schedule dates

    • · Service intervals

    • · Priorities

  • Update maintenance and work order tables when you revise equipment numbers on the equipment master

  • Recalculate work order costs to reflect actual time spent on each maintenance task

  • Update all work orders and equipment masters when you revise parts lists

  • Update all affected G/L transactions when you revise work order phase codes or equipment numbers

  • Update equipment tables when you revise numbers in your chart of accounts

  • Restore account balance information if your account balance data is corrupted

  • Update the Account Ledger table (F0911) when you change the symbol that you use to identify equipment numbers

Equipment/Plant Maintenance global updates consist of the following tasks:

  • Updating equipment information

  • Updating work order information

  • Updating PM schedule information

  • Updating accounts and ledgers