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Overview of Current Practice Review

Current Practice Review (CPR) is a strategy development methodology. It provides a way to quickly implement your existing reliability program in APM using available information such as paper-based inspections, manufacturers’ maintenance instructions, and predictive maintenance (PdM) routes.

Current practice review involves the following steps, which you can record in APM:

1.	The analysis team identifies the action plans required to effectively maintain the system for which the analysis is being performed. Unlike RCM2 and MTA2, the action plans are not derived from an analysis of a system’s possible failure modes, but by analyzing your current reliability practices.

2.	The analysis team implements the actions plans by creating indicators, standard tasks, and inspection routes.

Action plans can be added to APM manually from existing documentation. They can also be imported from Excel spreadsheets in cases where they can be compiled in an APM-defined format from existing electronic documentation.

Components of a Review

The following diagram illustrates the components of a review created in APM.

 

•	The selected assets form the review asset hierarchy, a snapshot taken from the site’s physical hierarchy.

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The review team develops action plans to deal with types of failure that the assets are subject to. A recommended action is selected for each plan, for example, condition-based maintenance or modification/redesign. Depending on the type of action, the team can add indicators, corrective standard tasks and jobs, or standard documents to the action plan.

Referencing SAP Plant Maintenance Objects in Current Practice Reviews

When APM has been configured to interact with an SAP Plant Maintenance system, the SAP Portal view is added to sites. Additional or replacements tabs are available on the Assets, Reliability Program, and Work Management views.

The SAP Portal view provides the following tabs and sub-tabs:

•	Functional Locations

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Equipment

•	Task Lists – General, Functional Locations, Equipment, and Operations

•	Maintenance Items – Maintenance Items, Functional Location Object Lists, and Equipment Object Lists,

•	Maintenance Plans

•	Notifications – Notifications, Items, Causes, Tasks, and Activities

•	Maintenance Orders – Orders, Operations, Object Lists - Functional Locations, Object Lists - Equipment, and Costs

•	Planning Summaries – Functional Locations and Equipment

Monthly planning summaries list functional locations and equipment and provide counts of their downtime, recorded and completed notifications, planned and unplanned maintenance orders, and more. Summaries tabs are available in the Assets, Work Management, and SAP Portal views.

When an APM asset references either an SAP equipment or functional location, information about the SAP object is available in the Asset window. Select the Properties view and SAP tab to view the reference. Select the SAP Properties view to see detailed information about the SAP object. Similarly, in the SAP object’s window, the Asset Properties view displays information about the asset that references it.

Similar information is available in Standard Task and Maintenance Item windows. And when a checksheet is created from a standard task linked to an SAP maintenance item or task list, the standard task’s SAP information is copied to the checksheet. You can view it in the Properties view, Source tab.

For several SAP objects, the property window’s Usage view contains tabs that list associated APM objects: checksheets, standard tasks, action plans, and proposed tasks. These tabs are available for maintenance items, maintenance plans, general task lists, equipment task lists, and functional location task lists.

For example, a reliability engineer can reconcile the action plans developed in a strategy development analysis with actual maintenance items in SAP. When creating action plans, the engineer browses the SAP data, using filters to narrow the search for a maintenance item that matches the action plan. When the item is selected, its number is recorded in the action plan for later reference, and the engineer can then mark the action plan as “Implementation completed”. At any time, APM users can view details about the referenced maintenance item by double-clicking its icon to open a properties window. These interoperability features help users to quickly and accurately ensure that their action plans are properly implemented in SAP, without having to flip back and forth between systems.

Tip: Interoperability settings at the enterprise and site levels determine the SAP information available on sites. In the Enterprise window, Integrations view, you can create interoperability profiles to be assigned to individual sites. Profile settings determine if SAP objects, APM objects, or both are available in the site’s Reliability Program and Work Management views. In the site’s interoperability settings, you can select the plants used to filter lists of SAP objects.

Referencing SAP Objects in Analyses

In primary and secondary action plans, you can select an SAP task list, maintenance item, or maintenance plan for corrective tasks. This example of the Maintenance Action Plan window shows both APM Tasks and SAP Tasks tabs because the site’s profile makes information from both systems available.

In the action plan’s Details area, SAP information (System condition and Work center) can replace APM information (Operating condition and Maintenance group).

For information about viewing, filtering, and browsing SAP objects, see Viewing SAP Plant Maintenance Data in APM.

For information about setting up interoperability, see APM Interoperability Guide for SAP Plant Maintenance.