Overview of Maintenance Work Definitions

Oracle Maintenance provides the maintenance work definition feature to help you design and manage the maintenance processes in your organization. It significantly accelerates the deployment of maintenance application and helps save time by facilitating reuse of work definitions in various work orders.

A maintenance work definition represents the operations, operation items, and resources needed for a maintenance or repair process. You can create one or many work definitions to represent the recommended service tasks for an asset.

The simple user interface enables you to create and manage the maintenance work definitions easily. You can also use the drag-and-drop interactions and data visualization views to design the maintenance work definition. You can generate and print the maintenance work definition report that consists of maintenance work definition details including information regarding operations, operation items, and resources. The report can be shared for offline reviews and information exchange. The support for versioning in maintenance work definitions enables you to implement and track major changes in the maintenance process.

To summarize, the maintenance work definition feature enables you to perform the following tasks:

• Manage maintenance work definitions in user interface: search for, create, edit, and delete the maintenance work definitions.

• Generate and print the maintenance work definition report that contains the maintenance work definition details. For further details on this report, refer to the Reports and Analytics chapter of this guide

• Create the maintenance work definition versions.