Jim,
You will be duplicating data already in the work order.

Rather than incorporating the equipment number into the work order number, I would recommend ensuring that the correct equipment is assigned to the work order – may times I see that an incorrect equipment Number is charged for a repair because of an equipment numbering scheme that is not understandable to the workforce. This makes it difficult to review your work order history.

You can modify the layout of the work order to improve visibility of the equipment number: see sample http://www.flemingtechnical.com/documents/modified_mp2_...rder_(long_form).pdf

Regards,
Donal
Donal Fleming
Fleming Technical, Inc.
Atlanta Georgia
http://www.flemingtechnical.com

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I use a wo type of R-RPM. It is defined as a repair resulting from a pm task. The task from the PM where the problem was found is then attached to the new wo as is the sublocation to the equipment. I can follow up on the wo not by number, but by task number. Also, I can filter by equipment. Any repairs we do on our equipment has a task associated with it. As we perform a job we have not done before, our planned creates a list of parts and tools needed for the job. The maintenance tech that does the work makes notes that are added to the task and we log it in MP2 as a repair to what ever sublocation of the equipment that it addresses. In the future, we have a complete work method including parts to help speed up the repair of that equipment. Our repair tasks have a rep code associated with them.

SDW, we are aspiring to do the same with our tasks, but are a little ways away... My first step is to ensure all of our work is done with work orders!!

I envy your process.

Hi Jack,
We have trained several of our production folks on each crew and in each production area to enter breakdowns as on site requests. These are the desired mods (for which we require an approval process), breakdowns, and repairs. These are not repairs from PMs. If the troubleshooter reviews a repair and determines it is not going to cause immediate downtime, it gets passed to me and my planner to review for a scheduled repair.

Our maintenance staff has been told we have to have a wo for everything we do. I guess it has been something we have had to learn to do over the past 18 months.
It will come with time. I have been applying some principles from Doc Palmers maintenance planning book to try and increase our uptime and decrease our backlog.

S