MRO Menu

Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) is used to describe the process and activities relating to the repair and scheduled maintenance of equipment or Work Centers associated with both a company’s physical plant and production or order fulfillment capabilities. Containers can also be configured for scheduled maintenance in Deacom. MRO planning provides several benefits to customers, including lower parts and labor costs, minimized downtime, and enhanced scheduling capability.

Deacom’s MRO option offers companies the ability to schedule maintenance and assign the appropriate costs required to efficiently maintain their equipment and Facilities. Scheduled maintenance times are integrated with the Master Production Calendar and offer customers the ability to plan and schedule both production and maintenance work in one central location.

Since the MRO feature is built within the Deacom application, several additional advantages are available to customers when compared to third party MRO solutions. These include:

Integration with production Jobs, offering more accurate and optimized scheduling capabilities.
The ability to leverage MRP to regularly re-order parts contained on the BOM attached to MRO items.
Maintenance costs are stored and available for reporting within the main application via Accounting Reporting.

Prior to scheduling maintenance and repair tasks in the system, users need to understand the setups steps and master data required to use the MRO feature.

System Navigation

Production > MRO

MRO pre-filter

Field	Description
Report Type	Pick list used to select the kind of report to run. Only option is Standard. Users with permission can create unlimited user versions of any MRO report and also determine which reports each user will see in this field.
Recurring Type	Pick list used to display the list of maintenance or repair tasks based on the recurring type specified on the Work Center or Container. Options are: All Automatically Scheduled - Displays all scheduled maintenance tasks except those that have been scheduled manually. Calendar Days Hours Used Manual - Displays only manually scheduled maintenance tasks. Quantity Produced
Date Based On	Pick list used to determine if records will be listed based on the Due or Planned Start date. Planned Start is calculated as the Due date minus the Item Master Lead Time.
Start/End Date	Used in conjunction with the "Date Based On" selection to dictate the dates used to generate the list of maintenance or repair tasks.
Facility	Filters for only maintenance or repair tasks for Work Centers whose Shop Areas are located in the selected Facility.
Shop Area	Filters for only maintenance or repair tasks whose Work Centers are attached to the selected Shop Area.
Work Center Type	Filters for only maintenance or repair tasks for Work Centers assigned to the selected Work Center Type.
Work Center	Filters for only maintenance or repair tasks for the selected Work Center.
Container	Filters for only maintenance or repair tasks for the selected Container. The "Type" field may be added to the report grid to define if maintenance is being performed on work centers or containers. The "Name" field may be added to the report grid to define the name of the container.
Children	Pick list used when filtering by a Work Center to either exclude or include child Work Centers. When set to "Exclude", the report continues to run as before, showing the maintenance tasks for the selected Work Center. When set to "Include", the report finds all of the child Work Centers for the selected Work Center, up to 100 levels deep, and displays their maintenance tasks as well. A parent Work Center can be defined via the "Parent Work Center" field on the Work Center General tab.
MRO Group	Filters for only maintenance or repair tasks assigned to the selected MRO Group.
Category	Filters for only maintenance or repair tasks within the selected Category.
Sub-Category	Filters for only maintenance or repair tasks within the selected Sub-Category.
Item Search 1-5	Filters for only maintenance or repair tasks that have the selected Item Search 1-5 option.
Item Planner	Filters for only maintenance or repair tasks that match the selected Item Planner.

Once the "View" button has been clicked the system will generate the MRO report containing a list The fields and features available on the MRO form are detailed in the table below.

MRO report

Opened via the "View" button on the MRO pre-filter, the report contains a list of maintenance or repair tasks and the associated hours, quantities, and dates, for the associated Work Centers based on the "Frequency" and "Recurring Type" defined on the Work Center Maintenance tab.

Button	Description
View History	Displays the historical maintenance and repair tasks for the selected Work Center.
View Loading	Generates a Job Reporting "Work Center Loading Summary" report, which displays the Work Center's daily available hours, total hours used, and total days worked.
Order All	If clicked, toggles the "Selected" column for all records to Yes.
Order None	If clicked, toggles the "Selected" column for all records to No.
Create Job	Creates a maintenance Job for the selected maintenance task and appropriate Work Center. A line will be added to the Job for each non-stock part contained on the Work Center Maintenance tab. Maintenance tasks assigned to the same MRO Group will be placed on the same Job. Maintenance (MRO) tasks are grouped by part number id, due date, and Work Center ID when creating jobs. In situations where two maintenance tasks are the exact same, they will not be merged into a single job if they belong to different Work Centers. When creating multiple jobs for MRO, the system will display the resulting jobs in a job summary report instead of opening in separate edit job forms.