Understanding Project Work Orders

For a group of maintenance tasks that are interrelated and subordinate to a larger task, such as a plant shutdown or the retooling of a manufacturing line, you can combine the tasks into a project. Setting up a project is especially useful when you must monitor the day-to-day details of a project within the context of the project as a whole.

Creating work orders for a project is similar to creating work orders with parent information. However, when you use the Project Setup program (P48015) to create the work orders, you can create several work orders at the same time and group them into a hierarchy that is subordinate to an existing parent work order. The parent work order represents the project, and each work order that is assigned to the parent represents a task in the project.

For each work order in the project, the system automatically enters the basic work order information, category codes, and record type information from the parent work order. After you create the project hierarchy, you can enter additional information that is specific to each work order.

Use processing options to specify which work order detail form appears when you want to enter additional work order information. You can then enter additional information about each work order, such as status comments or an extended description of the task.