PM

TabWare's Preventive Maintenance module allows you to schedule equipment PMs based on calendars and meter readings. This module has one setup option - the Frequency Rollup flag. Frequency Rollup allows the generation of  major, less-frequent PMs to suppress the generation of minor, less-frequent PMs. For example:

You have an annual, semi-annual, quarterly, and monthly PM defined for a given piece of equipment. The Next Execution Date for all four PM schedules is February 1, 2009. Depending on the number of lead days, the system will generate four PM work orders on or around February 1st. If you prefer that the maintenance workers have only one work order to deal with, you can use the rollup feature. With this feature enabled, only the annual PM would generate and the Next Execution Date on all four PM schedules would move forward.

Note: To use this feature, you will need to revise the planning information (resources, materials, and instructions) on Master Plans that have already been created. Continuing with the above example, because only the annual PM would be generated, the planning data for the semi-annual, quarterly, and monthly PMs would have to be added to the annual PM. The planning data on the semi-annual and quarterly PMs would have to be similarly updated.