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20 TOP SAP PM Interview Questions and Answers pdf

The below List of top 20 SAP PM Interview Questions and Answers for freshers and experienced pdf free download

1.    What is the use of item number in maintenance order?
Item number refers to the number (not material number) to identify the material component that is to be used for an operation in the maintenance order.It is generally given in increments of 0010.It is the first field in the Components tab of a maintenance order.

2.    What is refurbishment order? Explain the total cycle?
Refurbishment order is used for upgradation of damaged / defective spare parts and are sagregated as condition based . eg C1, C2 and C3
CYCLE:
create refurbishment order- withdrawawal of spare parts from store- refurbishment execution- order completion confirmation- refurbished parts back to store- goods
receipt for returning

3.    How to add the counter plan and strategy plan in a single maintenance plan?
multiple counter plan and stratergy plan cannot be added together, If u add counter plan with a strategy, counter plan will be taken into cosideration ,stratergy will not be considered.

4.    How can we assign measuring points to a strategy plan like compressor running hrs?
Go to the change equipment transaction , then extra, then add or replace counters. then select the desired counter by F4 help. you can't directly add counters or measuring pts to a maintenance plan.
You can do this for equipment ,FL and PRT only.

5.    What is aMilestone Confirmation?
The milestone confirmation is a special form of confirmation, in which the confirmation of one operation causes other operations or suboperations to be
automatically confirmed at the same time.
Milestones are operations that have the corresponding indicator in the control key.
Operations can be defined as milestone operations in their control keys. If a milestone operation is confirmed, then previous operations are automatically confirmed.

6.    What is Work Centre Categoey?
Basically work center category decides the capacity (means ability to do work). The category defines the activity type for costing and scheduling the categories mainly we come accross in the production are labour and machine. Hence to define labour cost, machine cost and setup cost we define work center category to create work center and we enter defaults therein. For a period of time if there are no much changes we generally prefer production line, and if there are much changes in the production we prefer activity type for individual order which we call production order. By this you can understand cat type 001 for machine and cat type for labour.
Work center category used to define which screen selection & field selection for a particular work center.

7.    How to set the deletion flag to Functional location and also want to know how to hide the flagged Functional location?
You can use transaction code IL02 to change functional location, highlight the respecitve functional location and go to edit at the top tool bar, their you select functions change and their you can click delete, to set a flag delete.
You cannot hide this fucntional location when you display IH01 , the functional location heirarchy is displayed but once you click it , the screen appears showing the
functional location is created with flag for deletion

8.    What is meant by single cycle plan ?how it works?
single cycle plan is may be performance-based or time-based but here it not required to maintain strategy. By entering main. category we will create maint. plan for
particular object by using t-code IP41.

9. What is SAP PM ?
The R/3 Plant Maintenance (PM) application component provides you with a comprehensive software solution for all maintenance activities that are performed within a company. The uniform, graphical user interface is particularly user-friendly and quickly meets with acceptance, thanks to the numerous possibilities that are available for tailoring it to meet individual requirements.
The data and functions of all maintenance procedures performed within a company can be fully interconnected.
The openness of the R/3 System enables you to use external systems that are integrated with the PM component, such as geographical information systems (GIS), computer-aided design (CAD) systems and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.

10. Is the functional location structure indicator unique across the system ?
Across clients but not systems.

11. What must you do if you have assets (functional locations) with the same number in several plants ?
You must use the plant reference number as the first level of the functional location structure.

12. What is the menu path for displaying the structure of a functional location in list form and as a graphic ?
plant maintenance>technical objects>functional location>structural display
Give five examples of functional location structures.
Chemical Process, Energy (power station), Property Management, Transport, Steelworks, Production line.

13. What steps must be defined in customizing for alternative labeling ?
Activate alternative labeling and indicators for primary label. Create a new structure indicator, define labeling system.

14. How do you define an own view for alternative label ?
Activate alternative labeling, define labeling systems for functional locations, enter label internal view.

15. What level of functional locations should be changed for alternative labeling ?
Second level functional locations are to be changed, in changing master records extras>alternative labels>overview, change label 'internal view' choose structure indicator and press refresh.

16. What is the menu path for creating a user profile ?
Plant maintenance>technical objects>functional location>labels>user profile.

17. What functions are determined by the category of the functional location ?
Change documents, status profile, asset, object information key, partner determination, measuring point category.

18. What are activities of a SAP PM ?
The 'SAP Plant Maintenance' comprises of the following activities such as inspection, to measures and establish the actual condition of a technical system, preventive maintenance to measures and maintain the ideal condition of a technical system, repair to measures and restore the ideal condition of a technical system and other measures that need to be taken using the maintenance organization.SAP PM is closely integrated with other modules (for example, Materials Management, Production, Sales and Distribution, Personnel Management, and Controlling) the data is always kept current and processes that are necessary for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service are automatically triggered in other areas (for example, a purchase requisition for non-stock material in the Materials Management/Purchasing area).

19. Explain the meaning of equipment master.
Equipment Master pertains to one of the master data elements within the domain of Operations & Maintenance i.e. The SAP Plant Maintenance Module.
The business object "Equipment" is an individual, physical object that is to be maintained independently. It can be installed in a technical system or part of a technical system.
You can manage all types of device as pieces of equipment (for example, production utilities, transportation utilities, test equipment, production resources/tools, buildings, PCs). 
Since many of these physical objects are managed as "assets" in Asset Management, the term "piece of equipment" was chosen for objects defined from a technical perspective, in order to avoid confusion with the activated tangible assets. 
You define and manage each piece of equipment in the Plant Maintenance (PM) System in a separate master record and can set up an individual maintenance history for each one.

20. For an equipment master record what fields need to be filled in ?
Depends upon the Equipment. Normally, the fields which used to maintain in an Equipment master are:
Equipment Category, Constr.type (serialized), Planning Plant, Work center, Plant, Maintenance plant, Location. You can attach an equipment to another using superior Equipment filed.

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