Creating a standard activity for maintenance with meters and variables

Prerequisites

Access to the File > Standard activity (MA049) menu.
Previously configured standard activity type.
Previously created team.
Previously created control variable.

Introduction

A standard activity is a mandatory record in the process of creating all maintenance, calibration, and verification types. Its main function is to parameterize all activities and plans that will be created from it.

The objective of this article is to specify the configurations that the standard activity must have in order to be used in the creation of plans and activities with meter and variable reading. Maintenance with meter and variable readings differs for having actions that can be taken from the reading of a variable.

The meter records an increase in some aspect of an asset that is going through maintenance. In a practical example, we can measure the mileage of the asset by checking, on the meter, how many kilometers were driven throughout the day, while the meter records the increase every day and shows the total number of kilometers the asset has driven. From this reading, we can set up maintenance to be performed every 10,000 km read.

Variables are measurable, quantitative and qualitative attributes that typically vary and can be controlled for an asset. These variables are read by the technician and recorded in the system, such as pressure, temperature, and condition. In a practical example, a temperature variable can be included in the maintenance of an asset, defining that the ideal value is between 90 and 100 degrees. When the technician does the reading and reads a value below 90, they can act in accordance with what the configuration of the variable suggests.

The record used to illustrate the steps will be employed to create a maintenance plan for the high pressure pump of a machine, the same example used in the preventive maintenance flow; the difference is that the focus will be on configuring meter and variable readings. The meter from the example will count the mileage of the machine to which the pump belongs, and the variables will be the pressure of the pump and its energy consumption.