Remove a Maintenance Group from an Active Maintenance Program

Explanation

This activity is used to remove a maintenance group and the connected maintenance plan from an active maintenance program revision. The purpose of this activity is to enable phasing out a maintenance group that is no longer used.

Once a maintenance group has been introduced to a maintenance program, the program has been activated and the serials are connected to the program and the maintenance group. You cannot remove this maintenance group from the later revisions of the maintenance program. When a new revision of a maintenance program is activated, all the serials connected to the maintenance program will automatically be moved to the new revision of the maintenance program. If the maintenance group of the serial does not exist in the new revision of the maintenance program, an error will occur. 

The process of phasing out a maintenance group from an active maintenance program is as follows:

• Create new revision of a maintenance program. Make sure that all the maintenance groups in the old revision of the maintenance program also exists in the new revision.
• Make the necessary adjustments to the new revision of the maintenance program, including adding new maintenance groups.
• Activate the new revision of the maintenance program.
• Identify all the serials using the maintenance group that should be phased out. For all these serials, change the maintenance group to the new one.
• Use the Remove Maintenance Group right mouse button option to remove the maintenance group from the active maintenance program. 

Prerequisites

• All the serials connected to the maintenance group that is to be removed from a maintenance program, must be connected to a different maintenance group in the same or different maintenance program.
• The maintenance group to be removed cannot be the last group for the part number, within the maintenance program. 

System Effects

• The selected maintenance group including the connected maintenance plan will be removed from the active maintenance program.
• An entry will be created in the maintenance program journal. 

Window

Define Maintenance Program   
Maintenance Plan 

Related Window Descriptions

Define Maintenance Program 
Define Maintenance Program/Maintenance Group 
Maintenance Plan  

Procedure

To remove a maintenance group and the connected maintenance plan from an active maintenance program revision:

1. Open the Define Maintenance Program window, and query (F3) for the active maintenance program revision from which the maintenance group is to be removed.
2. Click the Maintenance Groups tab, select the row that holds the maintenance group you want to remove, right-click and then click Remove Maintenance Group.
3. A message will appear inquiring whether you want to continue with the activity. Click OK if you want to continue.
4. If the combination of the selected maintenance group and maintenance program do not have any serials connected to it, and if the maintenance group to be removed is not the last maintenance group connected to the maintenance program, the maintenance group and the connected maintenance plan will be removed from the active maintenance program revision. A record will be created on the Define Maintenance Program/Journal tab and the Maintenance Plan/Journal tab. 

To remove a maintenance plan and its maintenance group for which the maintenance plan was created:

1. Open the Maintenance Plan window, and query (F3) for the maintenance plan corresponding to the maintenance group you want to remove from the active maintenance program revision.
2. Right-click on the header of the window, and then click Remove Maintenance Group.
3. A message will appear inquiring whether you want to continue with the activity. Click OK if you want to continue.
4. If the combination of the selected maintenance group and maintenance program do not have any serials connected to it, and if the maintenance group to be removed is not the last maintenance group connected to the maintenance program, the maintenance plan and its maintenance group will be removed from the active maintenance program revision. A record will be created in the Define Maintenance Program/Journal tab and the Maintenance Plan/Journal tab.