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Validation of PM Plans for Assets

The Products view of the Preventive Maintenance screen allows you to associate products and assets with PM plans. The PM Engine retrieves these products and assets as follows:

• Queries the Siebel database for all the products that are associated with the PM plan and then selects the All Assets check box for the products.
• Queries for all the assets that are associated with the PM plan and then clears the All Assets check box for the products.

You set the All Assets check box for products associated with PM plans in the Products view of the Preventive Maintenance screen.

NOTE:  PM plans are always associated with products and not with product lines.

To determine whether a plan is applicable to an asset, the Preventive Maintenance Engine applies the following processing logic:

1. Checks the product of the asset against the collection of products in the plan. If the engine finds a match, then the plan applies to the asset. Otherwise, processing continues.
2. Checks the asset against the collection of assets in the plan. If the engine finds a match, then the plan applies to the asset. Otherwise, the plan does not apply to the asset.