Operational and Overhead Maintenance (4WM)

Overhead maintenance allows you to record activities that are not part of typical maintenance tasks such as training, development, documentation, and so on.

Operational maintenance allows you to record routine maintenance activities such as greasing, which is done by the maintenance or production team.

If you need to record activity that is not reactive, proactive, or improvement in nature, you can use overhead or operational maintenance.

Overhead and operational orders support all the phases of the business process like planning, approval, preparation, scheduling, execution, post execution, and completion.

Key Process Steps Covered

Overhead Maintenance - 

• Create an overhead order
• Plan an overhead order
• Submit an overhead order for approval 
• Release an overhead order for preparation 
• Review maintenance backlog for readiness
• Schedule an overhead order 
• Perform time confirmation of pre and main maintenance order operations 
• Perform time confirmation of post maintenance order operations
• Technically Complete an overhead order 

Operational Maintenance - 

• Create an operational order
• Plan an operational order
• Submit an operational order for approval 
• Release an operational order for preparation 
• Review maintenance backlog 
• Schedule an operational order 
• Perform time confirmation of pre and main order operations
• Perform time confirmation of post maintenance order operations 
• Technically Complete an operational order

Benefits

• Record and track activities that aren't part of traditional maintenance processes
• Save costs
• Keep an asset productive for longer

Where is Operational and Overhead Maintenance(4WM) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

• As a core function of Maintenance Management within Asset Management Scope Item Group

Process flow of Operational and Overhead Maintenance (4WM)

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