The Planning and Scheduling Workbenches are integrated with QAD Enterprise Asset Management (EAM).

EAM provides supply chain management solutions for project accounting, plant maintenance, repair, and operation, including inventory and purchasing. EAM is integrated with the Manufacturing and Financial modules in QAD ERP, too. Using EAM, you can create entries that describe individual pieces of equipment with assigned attributes, then create repair work orders that reference the equipment entries. These work orders also contain information about how long the equipment is down. It is this aspect of EAM that constitutes the bulk of the interaction with the Planning and Scheduling Workbenches.

Within the Planning and Scheduling Workbenches, you can see information about planned/preventative maintenance work that is scheduled in EAM. Since EAM manages your organization’s physical assets by maximizing manufacturing equipment use and minimizing repair costs, you can see EAM orders within the EAM Repair Orders tab that displays at the bottom of the workbenches. You also can see that an order is an EAM order as well as the status of the order by an icon that displays in the Schedule Grid.

The following topics describe in more detail how to display and access EAM repair order data.