Concepts Tasks Settings Creating Work Orders and Tasks Contents Creating a Work Order from Scratch Creating a Work Order Task from Scratch Creating a Work Order from a Standard Job Creating a Work Order Task from a Standard Task Adding Tasks to a Work Order Reviewing Upcoming Work Changing the Number of a Work Order Charging Work Costs to a Component’s Location Copying a Work Order The topics in this section explain how to create work orders and tasks. APM work orders are the main documents used to manage maintenance work. Each work order can contain one or more work order tasks. Therefore, a work order can describe simple one-task jobs, complex multi-task jobs, or regularly scheduled preventive maintenance jobs. Using work orders you can also interact with the inventory, purchasing, and accounting functions in APM. You can plan and pick resources, create requisitions and purchase orders, enter asset indicator readings, and enter labor costs. Users can create work orders in a number of ways: • From the Work Management view on the site • From a work request • Directly from an asset • Manually or automatically from standard jobs • As follow-up work from a failure mode’s action plan Depending on how the work order is created, APM fills in as much information as available. A work order created from an asset contains only the reference to the asset, while one created from a standard job is as planned as the standard it is based on.
