פרק 1Introduction to Plant Maintenance

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with SAP S/4HANA This chapter takes a look at the increasing significance of plant mainte- nance and the associated change in perspective, which has also given rise to new terminology. It then outlines the environment of SAP’s Plant Maintenance component. In the past few years, plant maintenance has become more and more important for the following business, economic, and technological reasons:  Business factors – Rising acquisition values for technical systems – A disproportionate increase in costs resulting from losses – A higher, modified requirements profile for maintenance activities – The need for real-time collaboration with customers and vendors – Reduced vertical integration  Economic factors – An increasing proportion of maintenance costs attributable to the gross national product (GNP) – Continuous growth in the number of people employed in the maintenance sector – More stringent environmental regulations and occupational health and safety regulations – Globalization of product markets – Expansion of the services sector  Technological factors – Increased innovation speed – Increased automation – Increasingly interlinked, complex technical systems This chapter will closely examine these influencing factors, all of which interact, and the associated changes to plant maintenance. Furthermore, this chapter will intro- duce the many changes that the maintenance components in the SAP system have undergone. It will also provide an overview of the application system of SAP S/4HANA, 1 Introduction to Plant Maintenance with SAP S/4HANA introduce the SAP HANA database, and discuss the three main user interfaces for SAP S/4HANA.