Glossary · Maintenance and diagnostics
Maintenance plan
Also known as: Maintenance schedule
German: Instandhaltungsplan
In maintenance management, a maintenance plan is a structured set of tasks, including activities, procedures, resources and time scales, required to carry out maintenance of a specific item or plant.
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In one sentence
A maintenance plan is a structured set of maintenance tasks with procedures, resources, intervals and responsibilities for a specific item or plant.
Example
The maintenance plan for the injection molding machine lists daily checks, a monthly hydraulic oil analysis and an annual inspection of the safety guards.
How it applies
- Engineering: The machine builder provides the basis for the plan: tasks, intervals, lifespans and spare parts derived from design and risk assessment.
- Operation: The operator's maintenance department adapts the plan to its own conditions and loads it into a maintenance management system, which generates work orders.
- Maintenance: Technicians work through the tasks, record results and report deviations that may change the plan.
- Documentation: The manual usually contains a maintenance table with task, interval, qualification and reference to the procedure. The table and procedures should come from one source so that a changed Maintenance interval is updated everywhere. Safety-related intervals must be marked so that users do not extend them.
Maintenance plan vs. maintenance planning
A maintenance plan is the result: the list of tasks and intervals. Maintenance planning is the activity of preparing, scheduling and resourcing that work.