Condition-Based Maintenance with Calibration Inspections

Condition-based maintenance with calibration inspections is a coherent, cross-industry process for monitoring, calibrating, and maintaining equipment. It shows how maintenance engineers, quality inspectors, and asset operators (users) can benefit from systematic quality inspections of equipment - from the first use of an equipment until its replacement.

The map illustrates the benefits of condition-based maintenance through calibration planning and processing. The solution combines features of Asset-Life Cycle Management and Quality Management within SAP PLM. After a maintenance plan for a specific (list of) equipment has been set up, scheduled, and released due to a maintenance call, an inspection lot is created automatically. It allows the quality inspector to record inspection results and check whether these match the given calibration criteria. After valuating each piece of equipment, the maintenance engineer can make the usage decision for the inspection lot. If necessary, follow-up actions such as updating the equipment status ("operational" vs. "not operational"), reducing or extending calibration intervals according to the condition of the equipment, or creating measurement documents (which document the obtained inspection results), can be triggered automatically. This solution also allows determination of the optimum time for repair or replacement (by displaying a trend analysis), and condition-based scheduling of inspections (by setting a modification cycle factor). For evaluations of equipment, it also provides a usage list and a results history. This dynamic process allows you to streamline the maintenance schedule according to your needs.