Manufacturing Operations · Maintenance · Component
The schedule
Planned work with protected windows — because a window that is always surrendered to production is not a schedule.
The deliverable
What it is
Maintenance windows are the first thing given up when production is behind, which is exactly when the equipment is under most stress.
Deferred maintenance is not avoided maintenance. It is rescheduled to a time chosen by the equipment, which is reliably during peak demand.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The planned work
What is due, when, and how long it takes.
3 attributes: Task · Due · Expected duration
LearnThe window
The protected time in which maintenance happens.
3 attributes: Window · Protected · Windows kept
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Record how often the maintenance window is surrendered. The pattern is invisible to whoever keeps surrendering it.
The other components in maintenance
The maintenance regime
Which approach applies to which asset — preventive, condition-based or run-to-failure — chosen on consequence rather than habit.
LearnThe downtime record
Unplanned stops by cause, so that repeats become visible — because a repeated cause is a design problem rather than a maintenance one.
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