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preventive maintenance vs corrective maintenance?

Former Member
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hi

can anyone briefly explain with example the difference between preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance.

regards

sanjay

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former_member582431
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Hi,

Brief explanatiopn

Preventive maintenance - you "PREVENT" a failure/damage - so you do a routine checks (depending on company's maintenance philisophy/strategy) to ensure machine is running within the designed operating parameters. in SAP PM, you create a routine maintenance plans that automatically creates a Preventive Work Order.

Corrective maintenance - you "CORRECT" a failure/damage/malfunction due to wear & tear, operating conditions, design, etc. In SAP PM, you raise a notification (work request) to record the problem, the notification is then assessed/reviewed/approved and a corrective work order is then created (linked to the notification) to repair the problem.

Sometimes, a corrective work order is created as a result of a preventive work order. For example, during a routine Tank inspection, the technician found a discoloured level indicator and reading the correct level from a distance is difficult. In this case, the fault is recorded in the PM work order report and a corrective work order is raised to clean/replace the level indicator.

Cheers,

Joey

Former Member
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what PM order type are use to differentiate a corrective order and a preventive order?

thanks

neo

Former Member
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Hi,

In SAP standard, PM01 is the order type for corrective maintenance and PM03 is for preventive maintenance

Thanks,

Sandeep

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Former Member
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thanks for reply

peter_atkin
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