Organizational Structures in Plant Maintenance

The client is the highest-level element of all the organizational units. It corresponds, for example, to a corporate group with several subsidiaries. Within a client, the system always accesses the same database. The subsidiaries with their own financial statements and balance sheets are defined as company codes. Within Logistics, the plant is one of the most important organizational units. It usually represents a production unit of a company.

The plant, at which the operational systems of a company are installed, is called the maintenance plant. If the maintenance work is planned at this plant, the maintenance plant is also the maintenance planning plant. Locations subdivide a maintenance plant according to locational criteria, for example, site, building, coordinates. A maintenance plant can also be subdivided into plant sections based on responsibility for production. The person responsible for the plant section is the contact person who coordinates production and maintenance (plant engineer).

A maintenance planning plant is the organizational unit in which maintenance requirements are planned. These requirements can either come from your own plant or from another maintenance plant assigned to this maintenance planning plant. The planners within a maintenance planning plant are defined by maintenance planner groups. The units of capacity in Plant Maintenance are managed as maintenance work centers in the PM system. The maintenance work centers are usually assigned to the maintenance planning plant. However, you can also use maintenance work centers from other plants to perform maintenance tasks.