What are Toro orders? Equipment maintenance and repair

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The operation of the enterprise directly depends on the serviceability of the equipment, so it is critically important to carry out its maintenance and repair in a timely manner. These processes are easily automated using a special TOPO module from SAP.

The SAP RM module will allow you to optimize the work of managers, economists and planners of technical maintenance departments, logistics services and production units. In particular, the module will help in performing the following tasks:

  • Accounting for the quantity, types and composition of equipment.
  • Displaying the history of equipment maintenance and repairs, as well as changes in its composition.
  • Grade technical condition taking into account operating hours, mileage, etc.
  • Drawing up schedules of scheduled inspections, maintenance and repairs, indicating the types of work, the need for materials and personnel.
  • Maintaining statistics of failures and downtime of objects.
  • Managing the process of performing maintenance work.
  • Forecasting and accounting of cash costs.
  • Accounting for staff workload.

Increasing the efficiency of scheduled maintenance work

In the SAP TOPO module, the maintenance object can be either the company's own equipment or that belonging to other organizations ordering maintenance services. For effective accounting, it is necessary to create the following objects: workplaces and pieces of equipment, specifications, technological maps, repair and maintenance plans.

The module also conveniently automates scheduled preventative maintenance and repairs (for example, taking into account meter readings). The SAP solution records the maintenance history. This information then allows maintenance and repair activities to be planned.

SAP TOPO functionality:
  • Technicalequipment accounting
    Quickly search for information on objects and store data about characteristics, location and structure.
  • Determination of performance indicatorsequipment
    Indicators can be direct or indirect, financial or non-financial.
  • Development of flow sheets, specifications and content strategies
  • Work and materials planning
    Planning influences creation financial plan enterprises, repair budget; determines the need for materials and services; forms a plan for the procurement of materials and services to ensure the timely conduct of competitive procedures and the conclusion of contracts with suppliers. In addition, planning allows you to analyze the load of personnel and equipment to ensure the implementation of the plan.
  • Cost planning
    To accept literate management decisions and drawing up development strategies, it is necessary to take into account the assessment of projected costs and resources. At the same time, it is important to evaluate them both throughout the entire enterprise and in each division separately.
  • Registration of measured equipment parameters (hours, mileage Vehicle, insulation resistance, wear, etc.)
  • Equipment movement accounting
    The module reflects all completed and planned changes in equipment location. Information about this is reflected in the object’s passport.
  • Accounting for downtime, registration of failures, inspection results
    For organization preventative repairs, maintaining the history and evaluation of equipment in SAP TOPO, failure statistics are recorded on the following points: average operating time between failures; average time to eliminate a failure; equipment availability factor, etc.
  • Operational planning andcontrol
    Using the capabilities of the module, you can quickly adjust the amount of planned and unscheduled work, the need for personnel and the amount of required material.

The PM TOPO module is integrated with other SAP ERP system solutions.

Flexibility and excellent adaptation of SAP systems to the specific needs of a company, taking into account the specifics of its business processes, is one of the most important advantages of these systems. In addition, this allows you to select the optimal solutions in terms of financial investments, using only those functions that the customer needs at the moment. SAP's modular design allows you to achieve this flexibility and versatility. One of these system modules is SAP TORO - the module for maintenance and repair of the company’s equipment (or also the abbreviation SAP PM - Plant Maintenance). Short description SAP PM module - provisioning information support planning repairs and their material support.

Benefits of implementing SAP Maintenance

Maintenance in SAP is an opportunity to optimize equipment maintenance processes, plan repair work without compromising production activities, determine the required size financial resources both for spare parts and labor.

SAP maintenance modules allow you to automate management technical maintenance and repair of equipment at the enterprise, optimally distributing the timing of maintenance (Maintenance) and financial resources allocated for these purposes. If the company actively uses vehicles, maintenance for SAP ERP will also become a convenient control tool.

To solve the assigned tasks, the program specifies pieces of equipment, technical workplaces, specifications and technological maps of maintenance, etc. The implementation of the SAP Maintenance module allows you to plan preventive maintenance and equipment repairs, automatically create maintenance messages and orders based on measurements and meter readings, store maintenance history to analyze data on spare parts consumption, and much more.

The implementation of this module is an excellent addition to the SAP system, thanks to which MRP ERP systems acquire a reliable shell for uninterrupted operation and the disclosure of all their functionality.

Functional scope of the solution

  • automate the maintenance of equipment data (technical locations, units of equipment, its classification, specification of technical objects, etc.);
  • carry out certification of equipment;
  • ensure maintenance of databases according to standards and maintenance catalogues;
  • calculate the needs for materials, units, spare parts and ensure the formation of requests for their purchase in the required quantities and assortment;
  • ensure accounting and control of repair work, incl. control of the implementation of repairs, confirmation of the actual number of hours spent on repair work, release of materials, etc.;
  • manage procurement (draw up procurement schedules to ensure timely delivery of materials and spare parts for equipment repair and maintenance);
  • plan the number of personnel and other types of material resources required for maintenance;
  • effectively distribute and adjust repair costs according to selected indicators ( structural subdivision, a certain period of time).

Business processes "Real estate operation"

Modern enterprises own real estate, the operational efficiency of which is reflected in the success and profitability of the business.

Property management is regulated at various levels:

  • at the enterprise level, management is carried out on the basis of internal methodological provisions;
  • at the state level it is regulated by norms and laws;
  • on international level Operational methodologies are being developed, for example, enterprise fixed asset management standards PAS-55 and ISO55000.

Module "Maintenance and repair of equipment" (PM) of the SAP ERP system

The SAP ERP maintenance module allows you to automate the processes of equipment maintenance and repair at enterprises in various industries, for example, the automotive and aircraft industries, energy, mining and manufacturing enterprises. In this case, maintenance objects can be both equipment owned by the company and equipment of customers to whom maintenance and repair services are provided.

Manual data entry, non-automated control and analysis of the results of work performed are unreliable and costly. Automation of data entry, strict structuring of this data and methods for storing it in the maintenance module allow minimizing entry errors and providing opportunities to obtain up-to-date information at any time from any point with remote access to the SAP ERP system.

The main objectives of real estate management are:

  • centralized monitoring and management of the condition of building engineering systems;
  • recording and analysis of faults;
  • prompt response of technical personnel to emerging malfunctions;
  • planning and execution of preventive measures for maintenance and repair of building equipment;
  • management of mobile technical personnel;
  • accounting and analysis of real estate operating costs;
  • making methodological decisions on real estate management.

A tool for automating these tasks is the Equipment Maintenance and Repair (MRO) module of the SAP ERP system. REstart company has unique experience in implementing the SAP ERP maintenance module to automate real estate management tasks. The choice of a maintenance solution for the SAP ERP system is based on the world practice of its use in automating the operational activities of enterprises in various industries.

The need to implement a maintenance solution is dictated by tasks that are impossible to successfully solve today using traditional control methods with significant numbers of pieces of complex and geographically dispersed equipment.

Positioning of maintenance and repair in the information space of the enterprise

Organization of maintenance on the SAP ERP platform covers all types and forms of work on maintenance and repair of equipment, ensures interaction with business processes of economic planning and cost budgeting (planning costs for maintenance and monitoring budget consumption), planning and accounting of material and technical resources for maintenance, cost accounting and fixed asset accounting.

Interaction with the above business processes is implemented through the integration of maintenance and repair with the following areas of internal activity of the enterprise:

  • real estate (module “Flexible real estate management” RE-FX);
  • project activities(module “Project Management System” PS);
  • sales (module “Sales Management” SD);
  • accounting(FI module “Finance”);
  • management accounting(module "Controlling" CO);
  • logistics (module “Material Flow Management” MM);
  • personnel (HR module “Human Resources Management”).

Integration with the above modules of the SAP ERP system allows you to perform maintenance activities in close connection with other processes in the enterprise. This allows you to obtain complete information for analyzing the situation, forecasting and planning activities.

On an enterprise scale, specialized systems are often required to automate its activities. The technological component of the SAP ERP system ensures the integration of the SAP ERP maintenance module with external systems, for example:

  • automated control systems technological processes production (process control system);
  • automated systems control and accounting of energy resources (ASCAE);
  • software and hardware systems for organizing the work of mobile teams;
  • geographic information systems (for example, ArcGIS);
  • software and hardware systems for reading barcodes and RFID tags.

Maintenance module for accounting for real estate operation

The SAP ERP system maintenance module, as a functional link in the Real Estate Operations block, includes the following business processes:

  • Formation of a register of technical objects in accordance with the structure of real estate objects;
  • Detailing of the register of technical objects by engineering systems: engineering communications, life support systems, etc.;
  • Accounting for applications, incidents and accidents;
  • Planning for maintenance, routine repairs and unforeseen expenses;
  • Carrying out scheduled preventative repairs, maintenance and operational work;
  • Confirmation of completed work and generation of reports;
  • Formation and storage of maintenance history for subsequent analysis of activities, costs and inventory consumption.

Advantages of using the maintenance module for accounting for real estate operation

Using maintenance, the user can analyze sections of the “Real Estate Operation” business process, comparing in real time the actual results of activities with target values ​​and planned indicators. Thus, it becomes possible to use maintenance as a management and forecasting tool at the same time.

The Equipment Maintenance and Repair module provides tools for high-quality and efficient performance of such operations as:

  • Maintaining history of repair and maintenance of equipment;
  • Development and planning of a long-term schedule of repair work and scope of work;
  • Monitoring the condition of equipment by entering instrument readings;
  • Online control over the actual execution of repairs;
  • Control mobile teams;
  • Calculation of planned and accounting of actual costs for repairs and maintenance of equipment;
  • Formation of needs for materials, services and personnel;
  • Accounting and analysis of equipment faults;
  • Management of warranty service activities.

Automation of real estate operation based on the maintenance module of the SAP ERP system allows you to comprehensively solve enterprise business problems, quickly obtain complete and reliable information for analyzing situations, forecasting and planning operation activities.

In the context of market transformations, any energy company that sets itself the goal of being in demand requires modern IT technologies that guarantee it high competitiveness and effective management rapidly changing business processes. It is the implementation of corporate information platforms that will allow you to quickly obtain the necessary data on the state of current affairs in the company, develop tactics and strategies for its development, manage personnel, as well as anticipate future changes in the industry and prepare for them in a timely manner.

One of priority areas When automating the activities of an enterprise as a whole, it is the automation of equipment maintenance and repair (MRO). Maintenance costs at network enterprises amount to about 70% of their total volume for the main type of activity (transmission electrical energy

), in generation - about 20%. Most effective method reduction of maintenance costs - implementation aimed at supporting and ensuring timely repairs, as well as informing management about the current state of affairs in the field of maintenance.

Currently on the market information systems There are several KERN-class solutions that ensure the implementation of maintenance tasks within the framework of creating complex IS. Thus, the OXS company implements a maintenance management system both through a specialized SAP ERP module and based on own development based on Microsoft Dynamics Ah.

In general, by the time projects begin to implement complex EDR systems, enterprises have systems in place that create “patchwork” automation of maintenance and repair work.

Equipment accounting systems, as a rule, are based on accounting programs, which does not allow one to fully see the structure of the equipment, its characteristics, service history, breakdown statistics and other data necessary for the timely planning of maintenance and repair services.

Planning and control systems for the implementation of maintenance are mainly aimed at budget planning and control, which corresponds to the maintenance that is representative in the KR systems, since neither the first nor the second is capable of creating conditions for it to carry out the proper level of control and analysis. Integration of existing systems, both by definition and in essence, is not promising, since it has lost its relevance in modern conditions

: all reports produced in different systems have to be consolidated in a “tabular editor” from a third-party manufacturer. The main requirement that ensures the success of a project to implement a maintenance system is an integrated and methodologically sound approach. Based on the results of a full survey and analysis of the enterprise’s activities, with the joint forces of a consulting company, the customer’s representatives determine ways to influence the management of fixed assets, and select the form of the CR system depending on the scale and needs of the enterprise.

Today, one of the most popular solutions on the market, perhaps, is the SAP ERP system, which has been chosen by such large energy companies as OJSC TTK-6, OJSC Volzhskaya TGK, OJSC TTK-10, OJSC OGK- 2" etc. SAP ERP offers an integrated approach to managing enterprise fixed assets - "Management life cycle

Management of fixed assets can be divided into the following areas: “Investment”, “TO-RO” and “Accounting”, the first of which contains measures to update means of production (maintenance allows you to maintain equipment in proper condition). The latter ensures the implementation of legal requirements for accounting for fixed assets with the greatest possible efficiency.

The "MAINTENANCE" subsystem provides the energy enterprise with functions such as:

  • accounting of equipment in a single database with the required level of detail;
  • planning equipment repairs according to service life and operating hours and in accordance with industry standards;
  • the ability to calculate the required volume of raw materials and supplies taking into account the developed repair plan;
  • planning and control of production capacity utilization for repair work;
  • equipment dispatching functions;
  • planning and cost control for repair activities in real time, comparison of plan/actual;
  • the ability to determine the budget and exercise control over its execution for each type of work;
  • accounting for repair costs in the cost of fixed assets;
  • availability of complete information base on equipment (where, when and from whom it was purchased, by whom and when it was installed, warranty information, frequency of repairs performed and the amount of funds used, etc.).

The SAP ERP solution for maintenance and repair is closely integrated with the functionality of material supply, accounting and management accounting, which is important both for an ordinary employee planning purchases for an enterprise and for top management.

The implementation of this IS allows you to achieve:

  • reducing repair costs thanks to timely scheduled preventive maintenance;
  • optimization of inventories and purchases due to improvement of the logistics chain for generating and covering needs;
  • generation of reporting in real time in accordance with industry standards.

Speaking about the timing of putting the system into operation, it should be noted that their average duration ranges from nine months to one and a half years. As a rule, the standard system present within any enterprise requires certain modifications, which can be divided into general (for all Russian energy enterprises) and individual (for each customer).

General ones include, for example, a reporting package according to industry standards. Every customer has a requirement for such reporting, so our company has created a set of solutions for this task. In addition, it should be noted that each customer is individual, and therefore the development of unique solutions is often necessary.

Thus, back in 2004, an external development was created for Orenburgenergo OJSC, which allowed users who did not have access to SAP ERP to enter data on repairs, since at that time it was impossible to connect remote distribution systems to the server. Data entered locally by employees was automatically sent via e-mail and loaded into the system. Synchronization of reference books of the external program and SAP ERP also occurred automatically.

This development made it possible to include all departments responsible for maintenance in the process of planning and reflecting actual activities, which increased the accuracy and efficiency of information flow.

A unique solution was created for OJSC Tyumenenergo for the purpose of implementing the so-called operational order (EP), the basis for planning and monitoring the implementation of maintenance, on the basis of which a procurement campaign is initiated. When implementing electronic signatures in the system, several subsystems were simultaneously used: "TORO", " Financial management", "Operation Flow", "Purchasing Management", "Sales" and "Finance", which the concept this decision were combined into a holistic scheme, covering the entire volume of equipment, including main and auxiliary equipment, buildings and structures, transport, computer equipment (computer equipment), as well as communication equipment.

Despite the demand for SAP solutions, there are other ways to automate maintenance. For example, our company implements a maintenance solution based on the Microsoft Dynamics Ax platform, specially designed by OXS specialists for Russian energy enterprises.

Production automation based on Microsoft Dynamics Ax has become the choice of OJSC "TGC-13", where a project is being implemented to create a large-scale corporate information system, including, among other things, a maintenance module.

The Microsoft-based maintenance solution Dynamics Ax can be divided according to functionality into several parts. First of all, technical asset management is a tool for accounting for technical objects, allowing them to be structured, displayed in the form of a hierarchy, accumulate and display the history of repairs, and track all changes to objects throughout their activity.

The planning functionality makes it possible to carry out a repair campaign with an arbitrary planning “horizon” (several years, a year, a quarter), register an unlimited number of alternative plans, and draw up maintenance, diagnostics and repair schedules based on repair history data.

In accordance with the approved repair plan, an application campaign is carried out with purchases based on data from the maintenance module. The functionality for tracking repairs allows you to calculate in detail the capacities required for them and those available (MRP-II standard), write off materials with the formation of all the necessary movement data in the warehouse module automatically, and also register completed work by selecting a sequence of operations from the directory or using instructions technological map

, from which all information about the scope of work and their cost is copied into a special repair order.

In addition, it is possible to calculate repair work with the generation of the necessary transactions in the financial module automatically and generate a repair estimate, and in the case of the contract method, create a set of documents for settlements with contractors. As a result, all the necessary data goes into the maintenance repair history and into the budget.

The functionality of organizing permits for repair work, within the framework of which work orders and orders are formed; registration of orders; control over work on the job; as well as closing the work order combined with repair orders, makes it possible to establish responsibility for the work performed among the participants in the process.

The standard functionality of the maintenance solution also includes documents that allow you to print the necessary repair documentation: several standard types of work permits, applications, estimates, acts, etc. On almost every project, this list of documents is supplemented with reports unique to each client. This is the default welcome page used to test the correct operation of the Apache2 server after installation on Ubuntu systems. It is based on the equivalent page on Debian, from which the Ubuntu Apache packaging is derived.

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