Maintenance Processing - Advanced Functions

Serializing a piece of equipment means assigning a unique serial number to identify and track the equipment throughout its lifecycle. The prerequisites for serializing a piece of equipment are:
* Assign a serial number profile to the equipment category. This defines the rules for creating and managing serial numbers for the equipment, such as the number range, the check digit, and the serial number usage. The serial number profile is assigned in the Customizing activity Define Equipment Categories under Plant Maintenance and Customer Service -> Master Data in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service -> Technical Objects -> Equipment -> Equipment Categories.
* Assign a serial number profile to the related material master. This ensures that the material and the equipment have the same serial number profile and that the serial number is automatically copied from the material to the equipment. The serial number profile is assigned in the material master data in the Plant Data/Stor. 1 view under Serial Number Profile.
* Maintain a serial number for an existing equipment master. This can be done either manually or automatically. Manually, you can enter the serial number in the equipment master data in the Serial Data view under Serial Number. Automatically, you can link the equipment with a serialized material and the serial number will be copied from the material to the equipment. This linking can be done either with a goods movement or manually.
The options that are not prerequisites for serializing a piece of equipment are:
* Add a serialized material to the equipment serial data view. This is not a prerequisite, but rather a possible way to link the equipment with a serialized material and copy the serial number from the material to the equipment. However, this can only be done if the serial number profile is already assigned to both the equipment category and the material master.
* Assign a serial number profile to an additional business view for equipment category. This is not a valid option, as the serial number profile is assigned to the equipment category itself, not to any additional business view.
References:
* Serial Number Management
* Explaining Refurbishment of Spare Parts

Maintenance Processing - Advanced Functions

User Interface and Mobile Maintenance

To set up a general maintenance task list for inspection rounds using the overall time confirmation as a simplified way to record measurement documents, you need to do the following steps:
* Assign a piece of equipment with an allocated measuring point to a task list operation. This will allow you to inspect the equipment and record the measurement readings for the measuring point during the inspection round. You can assign the equipment either manually or automatically using the object list in the task list header1.
* Assign a measuring point as a production resources/tools (PRT) to a task list operation. This will allow you to inspect the measuring point and record the measurement readings for it during the inspection round. You can assign the measuring point either manually or automatically using the PRT category
0010 (Measuring Point) in the task list operation1.
* You do not need to assign an inspection lot to the task list header, as this is not required for inspection rounds. Inspection lots are used for quality inspections that are triggered by events such as goods receipt, production order, or sales order2.
* You do not need to assign an inspection document as a PRT to the task list operation, as this is not supported for inspection rounds. Inspection documents are used for quality inspections that are based on inspection plans and inspection characteristics2. References: PM - General maintenance task list and Set up your SAP S/4HANA system for EAM Inspection Checklists in SAP Help Portal.