This course gives the student an understanding of how to prepare for a maintenance visit. The student will also be introduced to the history data that is retained in IFS/Vehicle Information Management (IFS/VIM) and get a quick introduction to the background jobs aimed at keeping the database healthy.
The estimated time to complete this course is 5.5 hours.
This course was designed primarily for operations and maintenance managers responsible for scope definition and planning of a shop visit.
This chapter is where you learn how to create manual maintenance orders used when planning a maintenance visit in advance.
Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have completed a basic navigation course in IFS Applications. In addition, you should have completed the Manage Maintenance Program course and the Manage Serialized Configuration course.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 0.5 hour.
This chapter was designed primarily for operations and maintenance managers responsible for scope definition and planning of a shop visit.
This chapter is where you learn how to prepare the maintenance order. Once the requirements of the maintenance visit are established and the scope defined, you can start detail planning on the maintenance order that was created from scratch. You will learn how to add tasks to a maintenance order, define operations for the task and to define sign off requirements for the maintenance order. You will also learn how to manage maintenance order material demands, i.e., view material requirements, initiate demands, reserve/unreserve demands and peg/unpeg demands.
Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have completed the previous course and the Operate Asset course.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 2 hour.
This chapter was designed primarily for operations and maintenance managers responsible for scope definition and planning of a shop visit.
This chapter takes you through the different options available for supporting Depth/Heavy Maintenance Visits.
In the Generating Execution Logic Structure and Executing ELS Sequencing lessons, you will be introduced to the functionality for generating an Execution Logic Structure (ELS) for a maintenance order. From here, you will learn how to perform sequencing of the Execution Logic Orders (ELOs) that were created for the ELS and add or remove dependencies as per your requirements.
In the Releasing a Maintenance Order lesson you will learn how to release a maintenance order and understand the impact of this action.
In the Assigning Additional Tasks to the ELS Maintenance Order lesson you will learn how to add tasks to a released maintenance order and how it is distributed to the current work scope for the visit.
Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have completed the previous chapters.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 2 hour.
This chapter was designed primarily for operations and maintenance managers responsible for scope definition and planning of a shop visit.
This chapter presents the different types of historical information relevant to the Prepare Maintenance Visit process that is generated and retained in IFS/VIM.
Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have completed the previous chapters.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 0.5 hours.
This chapter was designed primarily for operations and maintenance managers responsible for scope definition and planning of a shop visit. Maintenance personnel executing jobs may find the predefined queries and history data retained in IFS/VIM to be of great value and help when executing daily work.
IFS/VIM consists of a number of background jobs. Some are aimed to automate Due Calculations and reduce the amount of user intensive processes, while others are used for the shape-up of the database.
Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have an overall knowledge of the solution.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 0.5 hours.
This chapter was designed primarily for operations and maintenance managers responsible for scope definition and planning of a shop visit.