A job program consists of a collection of standard jobs. The purpose of a job program is to make it possible to reuse or recycle the preventive maintenance information for a particular object when creating new PM actions. This prevents planning the information over and over again for each PM action, thus saving time in planning and preparation. Once a job program is defined, it can be added to similar equipment objects to generate PM actions.
The job program can be categorized according to the program type. This helps to group similar job programs together.
The generated PM actions will receive the relevant information such as work order generation conditions, material requirements, operation requirements, and tool and facility requirements from the standard jobs that are connected to the job program. Note: You cannot connect standard jobs that belong to different sites.
New job programs can be created by copying existing job programs. However, since you cannot connect standard jobs from different sites, copying job programs between sites is also not possible. Note: You can only use this feature to create new job programs, and not to create new job program revisions. Job program revisions are created using the Create New Revision for Job Program dialog box.
A job program can have many revisions. A job program revision lets you make adjustments to the same job program without having to create new job programs.
The status of a job program revision can be any one of the following:
Preliminary - A new job program or a new job program revision always receives the Preliminary status. A preliminary job program revision is not considered to be active, i.e., it cannot be connected to objects in order to generate PM actions. Standard jobs can only be connected to a job program in the Preliminary status. A preliminary job program revision can be updated and deleted. You can have more than one preliminary job program revision at any given time.
Active - An active job program revision can be connected to objects in order to generate PM actions. If you want to connect or delete standard jobs, you can only do so by creating a new revision. A job program can only contain one active revision at any given time. Therefore, once the status of the new revision is set to Active, the status of the previously active job program revision will be set to Obsolete by the system.
Obsolete - A job program revision is set to Obsolete when it is no longer in use, i.e., when the status of a preliminary job program revision has been changed to Active, or due to any other reasons.
The status of the job program revision is changed by using the right mouse button options. A new job program revision can be created from any status.