Initial Exercises—Manage Line Maintenance

Initial Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these initial exercises is to show the attendees how to do line maintenance according to a few commonly used principles.

IMPORTANT
These initial exercises are intended for instructor use.

If you are a student, it is extremely important that you set up and work with your own assigned student number to maintain your data integrity.

Task Distribution and Execution 1 - Simplified Work Order

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show attendees how to handle maintenance tasks being generated from operational loggings. In this exercise we will use the Simplified Work Order distribution type.

Windows:
Task Distribution
Maintenance Order
Serial Order History

Steps: To complete this exercise, perform the following steps.

  1. From the Pending Tasks window in the previous exercise, select the A-check task for serial X10000, right-click, and then click Task Distribution to open the Task Distribution window.
  2. Click the Pending Tasks tab and verify that you have the same task as seen in Pending Tasks window.
  3. Select Simplified Work Order as the distribution type and LAX-C as the workshop code.
  4. Select the Include Task? check box and save (F12). The task disappears from this tab.
  5. Click the Tasks Currently Assigned to Orders tab.
  6. Select the task, right-click, and then click Maint Order Info to open the Maintenance Order window.
  7. Click the Maint. Order Str. tab and select your task from the graphical object structure. The relevant task details will be displayed in the Task Details tab. Right-click on this tab, and then click Release. Enter the task start date in the Start Date dialog box and click OK.
  8. Select the task once more, right-click, and then click Finish.
  9. In the Finish Task - Enter General Info wizard step, enter 2 as the man-hours used and XMECH as the competence. Enter a short description of the work.
  10. Click Finish.
  11. Open the Serial Order History window.
  12. Query for the serial number X10000 and verify that the actual task has been filed in the history log.

Task Distribution and Execution 2 - Work Order

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show attendees how to handle maintenance tasks being generated from operational loggings. In this exercise we will use the Work Order distribution type.

Windows:
Task Distribution
Report In Work Order
Serial Order History

Steps: To complete this exercise, perform the following steps.

  1. Repeat the Operational Logging exercise (described in the initial exercises for the Operate Asset course) to get a new task generated.
  2. From the Pending Tasks window, select the A-check task for serial X10000, right-click and then click Task Distribution to open the Task Distribution window.
  3. Click the Pending Tasks tab and verify that you have the same task as seen in Pending Tasks window.
  4. Select Work Order as the distribution type and LAX-C as the workshop code.
  5. Select the Include Task? check box and save (F12). The task disappears from this tab.
  6. Click the Tasks Currently Assigned to Orders tab.
  7. Select the task, right-click and then click Report In Work Order to open the Report In Work Order window.
  8. Right-click, point to Work Order Status, and then click Released to change the status for the work order.
  9. Click the Time Report tab.
  10. Create a new record (F5) and select Plan Line No 32110 (use the List of Values) and enter 2 as the man-hours used.
  11. Save the record (F5).
  12. Click the Materials tab and issue the planned material by selecting the line, right-clicking, and then clicking Issue.
  13. To finish the work order you need to enter the Actual Start and Actual Completion dates in the Report In tab.
  14. Save the record (F12).
  15. Right-click, point to Work Order Status, and then click Finished.
  16. If you need to authorize the postings before finishing the work order you should do this in the Postings tab by selecting the lines, right-clicking, and then clicking Authorize All Non-Authorized.
  17. Open the Serial Order History window.
  18. Query for the serial number X10000 and verify that the actual task has been filed in the history log.