Oracle eam understanding 2014-07-16

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1. Which are different process flows in Oracle eAM module?

There are 2 types of process flows in eAM module as follows:

1) Work Execution Implementation Flow

First, You have to create a Maintenance Work in Process (WIP) Accounting Classes and then
you need to define Resources and Maintenance Departments. Afterwards, you decide if
employee association is required with resource. If employee and resource association is
required, create resource and employee associations and if it is not required then create
department and resource associations.

Finally, you decide if Work Orders are included in projects. If included then you need to set up
Project Manufacturing module, and then create a Work Order. If Work Orders are not included
in projects, create a Work Order.

2) Preventive Maintenance Implementation Flow

First, You have to create an Asset Group.
Next, decide if Preventive Maintenance (PM) definitions are based on runtime rules. If Yes,
create Meter Templates, next Asset Group and Meter associations using those templates, and
then create a Set Name. If it is NO i.e. if PM definitions are not based on runtime rules, create
a Set Name directly.
Next, create a Maintenance Activity and then Asset Group and Activity associations using
templates. Finally, optionally you have to create PM Schedule templates.
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Oracle EAM - Different types of assets
Explain the different types of assets?

There are 2 types of assets

a) Capital or financial Assets
b) Maintenanace assets

Maintenance Assets can be classified into the following two types:

1) Linear Assets
Linear Assets have linear properties and are connected with each other by their relationship
with the linear infrastructure itself. i.e. Networks
For example a metropolitan city which has a huge network of subways & roadways. You can
model them as linear assets in an Asset Management system and the buildings, poles parks
and terminals can be represented as non-linear assets. The joins and overlaps of the Linear
Assets make up the networks and the non-linear assets can be placed within that Network for
positioning and tracking purposes.

Example are Roads, Rail lines and tracks ,Highways, airport runways, harbors,Ports,
Subways, cables, Waterways, Transmission Lines, Water & Sewer pipe lines, Oil & Gas
Pipelines

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2) Non-Linear Assets
A non-linear asset does not have any linear property, occupies some space as per dimension
and can be tracked by its location or modeled as part of a parent child hierarchy.

For example, Mobile assets such as fleet, vehicles, tools and equipment, Fixed Physical
assets i.e. plant, equipment, facility ,Component relationship based assets (aircraft, ship),
Terminals, Rail cars, Buses, Trucks, Buildings, Parks, Poles, Substations, Facilities, Power
Generating Plants & Equipment,Pumping Stations, Extraction Facility.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Implementation steps for Oracle eAM module
List all the implementation steps for Oracle eAM module ?

1) Setting Up Organizations

2) Enabling Organizations for Enterprise Asset Management

3) Defining eAM Parameters

4) Setting Up Areas

5) Defining Departments and Resources

6) Defining Department Approvers

7) Defining Miscellaneous Documents

8) Defining Lookups including

- Activity Types
- Activity Causes
- Activity Sources
- Asset Activity Priorities
- Cost Category Codes
- Criticality Codes
- Asset Import Scope Codes
- Asset Import Statuses
- Contact Preferences
- Work Request Statuses
- Work Request Types
- Work Order and Work Request Priority Codes
- Work Order Reconciliation Codes
- Work Order Types

9) Setting Up Category Codes

10) Defining Asset Groups

11) Defining Activities

12) Activity Association Templates

13) Setting Up Attribute Groups

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14) Defining Asset Documents

15) Defining Asset Numbers

16) Defining Asset Routes

17) Setting Up Asset Bills of Material

18) Defining Activities

19) Navigating the Activity Workbench

20) Defining Maintenance Routes

21) Setting Up Maintenance Bills of Material

22) Associating Asset Numbers with Activities

23) Creating Activity Templates

24) Defining Rebuildable Items

25) Defining Rebuildable Serial Numbers

26) Rebuildable Item/Activity Association

27) Defining Rebuildable Bills of Material

28) To set up a Non-Stock Direct Item

29) Project and Task Setup

30) Defining Meter Templates

31) Defining Meters

32) Associating Meter Templates with Asset Groups

33) Associating Meters with Asset Numbers

34) Defining Set Names

35) Defining a Preventive Maintenance Template

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Which responsibilities are automatically created during installation process of EAM ?
Which responsibilities are automatically created during installation process of EAM ?

When installing Oracle Enterprise Asset Management, the installation process automatically
creates the following five responsibilities:
a) Oracle Enterprise Asset Management
b) Maintenance User Workbench
c) Maintenance Super User
d) Self-Service Work Requests
e) Self Service Time and Expenses

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The 'Oracle Enterprise Asset Management' responsibility mentioned above is a super user
responsibility. It includes the necessary functions to set up and implement Oracle Enterprise
Asset Management.
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Which are pre-requisites for installing EAM module ?
Which are pre-requisites for installing EAM module ?

a) Configuring Concurrent Managers and Printers

b) Set up Responsibilities and assigning responsibilities as per requirements
c) Setting up Workflow module if work request(s) require approval from a maintenance
department user
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Mandatory and Optional Oracle Applications modules for Oracle EAM
To work with EAM, which are the Mandatory and Optional Oracle Applications
modules/products?

Mandatory modules are

a) Inventory
b) Bills of Material
c) Cost Management
d) Work in Process
e) Manufacturing Scheduling
f) Quality
g) Human Resource

Optional modules are

a) MS/MRP
b) Fixed Assets
c) Oracle Financials modules
d) iProcurement
e) Purchasing
f) Order management
g) Oracle Projects
h) Property Manager
i) Project Manufacturing
j) Time and labor
k) Oracle Service
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM) module - An Introduction
What are aims, objects and benefits of Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) module ?

1) An asset is an entity for which users can report problems. Assets can be cooling towers,
cranes, buses, buildings, conveyors, or anything that needs work.

2) eAM creates and implements maintenance procedures for both assets and rebuildable
Inventory items and takes care of comprehensive and routine maintenance requirements of
asset intensive organizations. It effectively maintains assets such as vehicles, cranes and

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HVAC systems and rotable Inventory items such as motors and engines.

3) eAM enables users to optimally plan and schedule maintenance operations /activities with
minimal disruptions to an organizations operations and productions. It measures performance
and optimizes maintenance operations. It tracks the performance of the assets and rebuildable
inventory items by using meters, quality plans and conditioning systems.

4) By effectively monitoring operational data such as maintenance history, performance

trends, meter readings, and operating conditions, organizations can proactively manage
available resources such as inventory, equipment and skilled personnel to match them to asset
maintenance demand.

5) Optimization of asset utilizations, scheduling and resources improves resource efficiency

and enhances maintenance quality, maximizes resource availability including equipment and
labor. Maintenance costs and work history are tracked at asset level.

6) Oracle eAM enables organizations to create and implement optimal and effective asset
management strategies that can increase revenue and decrease costs. Both Preventive and
Predictive Maintenance strategies are supported by eAM. It allows you to create alternate
maintenance strategies for seasonal or production capacity changes. It supports sophisticated,
condition-based maintenance strategies for property, plants and public infrastructure, improves
operation performance, and with preventive and scheduled maintenance, increases safety,
optimizes Scheduling and resource efficiency.

7) It eliminates the need for spreadsheets and disparate data repositories, by enabling
companies to manage reactive, planned, preventive maintenance, and adopt a centralized,
proactive strategy for managing asset maintenance across an enterprise.

8) Oracle eAM's single-instance design ensures best practices and quality compliance
globally, eliminates excess and obsolete spare parts inventories, promotes environmental,
health and safety policies, smoothes coordination of production and maintenance schedules
and improves both the responsiveness and accuracy of contracted maintenance.

9) It bridges the gap between ERP/MRP solutions and Asset Maintenance for industries that
rely heavily on Asset Maintenance Systems.

10) It is a lynchpin of the integrated workplace incorporating visual navigation for space
planning and allocation, multi-channel service request processing, building systems
maintenance and technology asset tracking.

11) eAM improves return on capital assets by integrating physical with financial aspects and
supporting deep collaboration between project lifecycle and service lifecycle operations.

12) It integrates seamlessly with other modules of E-Business suite and is suitable for
Metals/Mining, Manufacturing, Pulp/ Paper, Petrochemicals, Facilities and Education and
many more assets.

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