What is SAP Plant Maintenance Module

Plant Maintenance (PM) operates the overall maintenance business processes and functions.The Plant
Maintenance module allows a maintenance organization to: Identify, document, and correct failures and
degradations of any equipments for which they have maintenance responsibility.

Plan and schedule activities to prevent or predict failures and keep assets and processes operating within
design specifications. Both Corrective and Preventative maintenance processes exist in the Plant
Maintenance module.

Corrective maintenance refers to the activities conducted by the Maintenance Organization to repair
equipment of all forms within their area of responsibility. Preventive maintenance is a discipline that uses
processes and activities that focus on the prevention of failures or performance degradation before it
occurs.

Plant Maintenance is closely integrated to MM, FICO and PP Module.