maintenance-scheduling

name	Maintenance scheduling
description	Turn a maintenance backlog into a sequence that fits the production plan.
category	operations

Scheduling maintenance

Every planned job competes with production. Schedule against the plan, not against the calendar.

Rank by consequence

Statutory and safety-critical inspections first — these have dates, not priorities. Then by what failure would cost: a single point of failure with no spare outranks a redundant unit, whatever its due date says.

Fit the window

Match each job's duration and isolation requirement against planned downtime, changeovers and shift patterns. A four-hour job into a two-hour window becomes an overrun, which is how planned maintenance loses its slot permanently.

Check before scheduling

Parts in stock or on a confirmed date · the skill available on that shift · permits and isolations arranged · whether two jobs need the same isolation and can be combined.

Flag

Anything overdue against a statutory interval, anything deferred more than twice, and any asset whose reactive work is outgrowing its planned work.

Never

Schedule without confirming parts, or defer a statutory inspection.