The Plant

The Plant Card

The Plant Card is the master record for the Plant. Here the user records the unique features of the Plant to identify the actual piece of equipment.

4 The Plant Card

On the General tab you can link the Plant to an existing Fixed Asset. The usage field allows you to drill down to access the Usage table where you can enter the number of kilometers or number of hours ran which will then show the latest entry on the Plant Card. This is required if the planned preventative maintenance is based on usage, instead of periodic time intervals. If the plant affects the availability of a work centre or machine centre in the manufacturing module of Business Central, you can link it accordingly.

On the Site, Vehicle, Warranty and Lease tabs you can add additional information about the Plant, like physical address, serial number, registration number and if applicable the lease details and warranty details of a Plant.

Plant Components

A Plant can be broken down into multiple components. These components will have to be set up as Plant records themselves. Once these components have been set up as a Plant, they can be assigned to the higher-level Plant that they belong to. From the Plant Card you simply click on Components.

5 Plant Components

From the Plant Component List, you can look up to the Plant list and add the components.

You can also access the Component Structure to see the expanded view of a parent plant record setup to have components.

6 Plant Component Structure

The Expand All icon allows you to see all the lower levels of the individual components as well (if there are any).

The Plant’s Work Procedures

In the lower part of the Plant Card, in the Work Procedure tab, we can attach the Work Procedures that are applicable to this Plant. Work Procedure describes the maintenance work required for a Plant including frequency, planning type, start and end date, as well as the resources required. This can include labour, items (parts), expenses etc (see also Work Procedure).

7 The Plant's Work Procedures

Adding a New Work Procedure

Adding a new work procedure to the Plant is easy. Simply go to a new line in the Work Procedures tab, in the Work Procedure Code you can click on the look up arrow to select an existing procedure from the list. The system requires you to fill in a start date (first planned maintenance) and an end date.

8 The Plant's Work Procedures

The Work Procedure menu allows you to open the Work Procedure Card and see the details for the work procedure, the Job Skills and quickly create a Job for the selected work procedure.

9 The Plant's Work Procedures

Current Work Orders

All current work orders for a particular Plant, can be viewed from the Plant Card by clicking on Job Tasks action on the ribbon.

10 Current Work Orders

You can open the Job Card by clicking on the Job Task Card action on the ribbon.

11 Project Task Card

Finished Work Orders

The Completed Job Task action on the Plant card provides and historical overview of all work orders that have been completed.

12 Completed Job Tasks