Maintenance Groups

Maintenance groups are resources that are available for use throughout the project and can be managed via the Resource Manager. A maintenance group is a set of items where some event within the group can trigger maintenance for one or more items, either within the group or outside of it. You can use a maintenance group to trigger a scheduled task (i.e., a preventive task, inspection or on condition task) by setting the task to be performed based on events in one or more maintenance groups. Triggering events within the maintenance group can include item failure; start of corrective, preventive or inspection tasks; and/or item restoration. The task will be performed upon those triggering events, regardless of whether the block it is assigned to is part of those maintenance groups or not. For example, if you want to perform preventive maintenance on Component A every time you perform corrective maintenance on Component B, then you can assign Component B to Maintenance Group 1 and then set the preventive task assigned to Component A to be performed upon the start of corrective maintenance within Maintenance Group 1. See Task Scheduling for more information on how tasks can be scheduled.

The Maintenance Group window allows you to create, view and edit maintenance groups. It can be accessed by clicking the Create New or View/Edit icon in the Maintenance Group wizard, accessed from the Properties tab in the Analysis panel).

It can also be accessed from the Maintenance Groups page of the Resource Manager by choosing Main > Resource > New, by selecting a maintenance group and choosing Main > Resource > View or by double-clicking a maintenance group.

At the top of the window, you can specify the maintenance group name. You can replace the default name with your own name of up to 150 characters, if desired. (See Default Names Formats.) You can also enter comments about the maintenance group in this window.