A (planned) maintenance order or PPM order is generated in Maintenance Planner and added in Work Orders for a single maintenance activity or cluster of activities in a definitive maintenance plan.

In Maintenance Planner, you can generate maintenance orders are generated at Definitions & Schedules. These orders can subsequently be monitored and their statuses updated in Work Orders .

It is also possible to schedule the generation of maintenance orders as an automated process. As part of this functionality, you have to create a PPM profile, which defines the parameters for the scheduled, automated PPM order generation. Generating maintenance orders as an automated, scheduled task (for example on a monthly basis), reduces human intervention and errors to a minimum.