Maintenance Planner

Service the machine that has been working, not the one on this month's list.

Calendar maintenance is the lazy version. A machine running two shifts a day needs attention sooner than one that sat idle, and servicing the idle one on schedule while the hard-worked one waits is how a line goes down. Where your machines report running hours, your Maintenance Planner schedules from those.

A job is not scheduled until all three things exist. The parts on the shelf, a technician with the hours, and a real gap in production. Two out of three is a job that gets cancelled on the day, and a machine taken out twice.

Windows get asked for, not announced. Your production planner treats a maintenance window as time that does not exist. That only works if somebody agreed to it, so this seat sends the request with the duration and what happens if it waits.

It watches the spare that can never arrive in time. Below minimum is a reorder. A part with a twelve-week lead time protecting a machine serviced every eight weeks is something else entirely: it can never be ordered when needed, only stocked. That distinction gets named.

Every deferral is tracked with what it risks. One deferral is a scheduling decision. The third on the same machine is a pattern, and the pattern is usually that this machine never gets a window because it is always needed. That is a conversation with you, not a scheduling problem.

One ratio tells you if it is working. Planned downtime against unplanned, by machine, with the trend. A shop that is mostly reacting is a shop where the machines decide the maintenance schedule.

Works with whatever system holds your assets, work orders, and stock.