Overview of Oracle Maintenance

Oracle Maintenance provides a wide range of features that enables you to maintain and repair the assets in a balanced and cost effective manner. Every organization wants to operate their assets with more efficiency, up time, and effectiveness. So, it becomes fundamental to ensure that the scheduled maintenance activities for the assets happen on time and the on-demand repairs for the assets are addressed with utmost urgency. These maintenance and repair processes must be consistent, repeatable, and cost effective. Maintenance helps you overcome the challenges and establish the maintenance processes that satisfy the key requirements.

Using Maintenance, you can create and manage the asset definition, set up the organization to support the maintenance activities, define consistent and reusable maintenance processes, define and manage the maintenance activity, perform execution transactions, and print various reports. These key capabilities of the Maintenance are briefly discussed as follows:

Create and Manage Assets

The Maintenance application provides a comprehensive ability to define and maintain assets across the organization using maintenance processes that are consistent and repeatable. You can also define utilization meters for your asset as a way to track your asset utilization and drive a preventative maintenance forecast.

Set Up the Organization for Performing Maintenance Activity

You can set up organizations specifically as a maintenance organization. To define various functionality of the organization, you can set up the plant parameters. You can set up multiple work areas and work centers for performing the maintenance work. You can set up the required resources for the maintenance work and assign them to the applicable work centers.

Define Consistent and Reusable Maintenance Processes

In Maintenance, operations are used to define the sequence of steps to be performed in maintaining an asset using a maintenance work order. You can create and manage a library of operation templates called maintenance standard operations. You can then reuse the maintenance standard operations when you define maintenance work definitions and maintenance work orders.

The maintenance work definition is used to define the maintenance process of an asset including the operations, steps, materials, and resources. You can create and manage the maintenance work definitions to help you design and manage the maintenance processes. You can easily create a maintenance work order by referring to a maintenance work definition. In such event, the operations, materials, and resources defined in the maintenance work definition are automatically carried over to the maintenance work order.

Define and Manage Maintenance Activity

The maintenance work orders are used to initiate the maintenance process. In a maintenance work order, you specify the asset information, operations, material, and resource requirements. You can create and manage the maintenance work orders. Various mass actions are supported to update the priorities and statuses of multiple work orders at the same time. You can mass close the maintenance work orders and review the incurred cost for any closed maintenance work order.

Perform Execution Transactions

You can perform various maintenance executions to report the maintenance work. You can report the completion of operations, consumption of materials and resources, return of materials and resources. Maintenance provides you a maintenance dispatch list with the work order operations that need attention. You can review the maintenance dispatch list and initiate an operation transaction, material transaction, or resource transaction as needed. The transaction history is preserved and can be reviewed at any point of time. Maintenance also enables you to run a scheduled process for transferring the maintenance execution transactions to the costing for accurate costing of the maintenance work orders.

Print Reports

Maintenance enables you to generate and print the following reports:

• Maintenance Work Definition report: This report displays the list of selected work definitions and their details to perform a specific maintenance activity.

• Material List report: This report displays the material list for the maintenance work orders.

• Work Order Details report: This report displays the maintenance work order details. It includes details such as maintenance work order information, maintenance work definition details, operations, materials, resources, and attachments.

For more information on these reports, refer to the Reports and Analytics section of this guide.

Manage Maintenance Exceptions

There can be incidents of problems, such as such as material or resource unavailability, that can impact the maintenance activities. Maintenance enables you to create and manage maintenance exceptions for the work order operations that are impacted because of these problems. You can create an exception and then add the impacted work order operations to the exception. When an exception is reported, all relevant users are notified. You can close the exception for the work order operations after resolving the issue.

Use Import Feature

Maintenance enables you to import assets and maintenance work orders using spreadsheet. Using the import feature, you can easily create and update in bulk. There are separate spreadsheets available for assets, work definitions, and maintenance work orders.

For more details, see the File-Based Data Import for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud guide.

Use Oracle Social Network

Maintenance makes the assets and maintenance work orders available as social objects that can be shared on wall and add as a reference to another social object. You can use the features of Oracle Social Network to collaborate, communicate, and make decisions. All the communication history is preserved that can be viewed later for reference.

Project-Driven Supply Chain

Project-Driven Supply Chain is an end-to-end, integrated solution across Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manuracturing and Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management applications to support business processes of both manufacturing and asset-intensive companies. If your organization is project-tracked, you can perform project-specific maintenance by creating a work order, issue components from common or project-specific inventory, and complete the maintenance of the asset. You can also purchase outside processing services on project-specific work orders and import material and resource costs to the project.

For more details on setting up Maintenance, see the Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide.