Revision Planning
Application component: Aerospace & Defence Industry Solution
App type: SAP GUI
Description:   The Maintenance Event Builder (MEB) provides an intuitive, easy-to-use way to manage the planning of maintenance revisions that represent individual work packages. The MEB can help you do the following:  Review maintenance notifications  Assign notifications to revisions  Generate plant maintenance or customer service orders from the task lists in the notifications  Assign the work  View the following:  Outstanding work requirements  Due dates  Work orders  Other maintenance planning information.   Help you examine your resource situation   MEB supports the planner by creating work packages that include outstanding maintenance requirements for upcoming maintenance events. A maintenance event can represent a heavy maintenance event or a line maintenance event. Once you have set up the work package you can generate required work orders for technicians. 
Key features:   MEB comprises the following major features: Revision  Notifications are grouped into revisions that represent the work package to be performed in a maintenance event. The revision work area enables you to work simultaneously with multiple revisions; it is also linked to the planning board for easy navigation ( Using the Revision Work Area ).   For larger maintenance operations when a project is needed, you can assign the revision to a project network or work breakdown strucutre (WBS) element. This assignment enables the automatic assignment of orders generated for this revision to the project structure using the PM/PS reference element ( Assigning Maintenance Orders to Projects ). This way, the maintenance orders are sequenced based on the project plan ( Maintenance Planning With the Maintenance Event Builder ).   Notification  Work requirements are displayed in a list of maintenance notifications, which helps you do the following:  Select outstanding maintenance notifications based on a set of flexible search criteria that include functional location or equipment.  View outstanding work requirements, due dates, work orders, and other material planning information.  Drag and drop notifications to assign or reassign them ( Using the Notification Selection List ).   Defer notifications ( Deferring Notifications ).    For larger maintenance processes, you can use a task list hierarchy to reflect the structure of work to be performed. The task list hierarchy lets you organize task lists and group the work. This list comprises the actual operations to be performed in a maintenance event. You can drill down to display the linked task lists and resulting operations that provide the details of the maintenance task ( Maintenance Task List Hierarchies ).   Order  You can create plant maintenance or customer service orders from the task lists and task list hierarchies in the notifications and assign the orders to a project network that represents a maintenance slot. When you create orders from task lists, the following steps are performed:  Task list hierarchy explosion  Exclusion and elimination of task lists  Order creation for each task list that remains after step 2   The work orders place a material demand on the supply chain to trigger the material procurement process ( Creating Orders in the Maintenance Event Builder ). You can assign orders to projects using the PM/PS interface ( Assigning Maintenance Orders to Projects ). You can use a report to create orders for a revision as a background process ( Creating Orders From a Revision Report ).   Planning Board  The planning board displays the following views:  Technical object  This view displays the revisions in the planning board for each technical object. At any time, this view provides an overview about which location the technical object is scheduled or available for maintenance.  Work center  This view displays revisions about which technical object is scheduled or is available for maintenance are displayed by location.  Capacity  This view displays the available capacity versus the load for each capacity (for example, per work center) in a histogram. This information can help you locate resource bottlenecks.  See also:  Using the Planning Board   Planning Tree  The planning tree displays the following option:  Capacity: This view displays the available capacity and the used capacity per work center in a tree format. This information helps you locate resource bottlenecks.  Customization / Personalization  MEB provides role customization based on authorization objects, so that different roles can access different sets of functionality. You can also adjust settings in the tool to control the graphical behavior of MEB.  Revision API  APIs can help you create, update, package, or delete revisions from another system. These APIs are used by the Maintenance Service Planning solution in APO but can also be implemented to interface with, for example, a flight scheduling system. See also:   Function group DIWPS_REV_API  Archiving  An archiving object is provided for revision, including archiving reports and a report to retrieve archived revisions.  For archiving, deletion indicator should be set on revisions. This deletion indicator is set by the preprocessing archiving report of the revision.  It is also possible to display archived MEB controlled notifications and MEB controlled orders within the MEB’s revision work area.  Following are the prerequisites for archiving MEB controlled notifications and MEB controlled orders:  MEB controlled orders:  The deletion indicator should be set on the corresponding revision  The notification status should be  Blocked for Archiving .    MEB controlled notifications:  The deletion indicator should be set on the corresponding revision  The orders (MEB controlled) should be already archived.