Job Program—Key Exercises

Required Data

Create Standard Job

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize you with the required data that you will need for the exercises below.

Windows:
Separate Standard Job
Route Standard Job

  1. Open the Separate Standard Job or Route Standard Job window.
  2. Create a new record (F5).
  3. Enter an appropriate standard job ID, revision and description.  
  4. Save the new record (F12).

General exercise for Create Separate Standard Job or Create Route Standard Job.

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to show you how to create and prepare separate a job program. The job program is used as a template to generate complex preventive maintenance programs.

Windows:
Job Program

Create a Job Program

  1. Open the Job Program window.
  2. Create a new record (F5).
  3. Enter an appropriate job program ID, revision and description.  
  4. Save the new record (F12).
  5. Click the Standard Jobs table.
  6. Click New, and enter a standard job ID, you can select it here using the List of Values (F8).
  7. Save the new standard job row (F12).

Note: It is useful to use a program type to categorize your job programs. The standard jobs can be added one by one or in batch using the next exercise.

Add Standard Jobs by Category

  1. Open the Job Program window.
  2. Query for the job program that you entered in the required exercise above.
  3. Click on the Standard Jobs table, right-click, and then click Add Std Jobs by Category
  4. Enter the appropriate identityties for a category combination using the List button.
  5. Click Query.
  6. Select the Standard Jobs you want to copy to the job program.
  7. Click Return.
  8. Click on the Job Program window, right-click, and then click Job Program Status/Active.

Note: Job programs are created in status Preliminary and have to be prepared. Only Active job programs can be used to generate PM Actions in the next exercise. An active job program canot be updated, you have to create a new revision. When the new revision is set to "Active" the previous revision will be set to "Obsolete".

Add Job Program to Object

 

Note: This is a difficult exercise that has to be mastered by the responsible with generating complex maintenance programs from templates like standard jobs and job programs.

  1. Open the Job Program window.
  2. Query for the job program that you entered in the required exercise above.
  3. Click on the Job Program window, right-click, and then click Add Job Program to Object.
  4. The first detail table(source) is populated with the standard jobs of the job program, divided in Separate and Route tabs.
  5. Enter an object ID using the List of Values (F8).
  6. The second detail table(destination) is populated with the existing PM Actions for the object.
  7. The Simulate button is enabled only when all standard jobs have enough information like Maint.Organization, Action and Route ID. Otherwize, default values can be entered using the List of Values (F8).
  8. Click Simulate. Temporary PM numbers are created from the standard jobs depending on their interval and the Merge on PM checkbox.
  9. Each standard job is marked with the destination PM number. This can be manually adjusted if you want to change the destination of a standard job.
  10. When you are pleased with the simulation rezults click Generate and real PM numbers will be generated.

Note: A job program can be applied several times on the same object or several job programs can be applied on the same object, using merge or not. The Program Used on Object checkbox will be warning against applying a job program twice on the same object.