Scheduling maintenance
Maintenance procedures in MES are scheduled for one or more assets, based on defined frequencies or trigger conditions. This scheduling ensures timely execution of preventive and corrective maintenance tasks across the factory floor.
These are the scheduling options in MES:
- Single occurrence: The maintenance procedure is scheduled to be performed once for the selected asset.
- Recurring series: The procedure is scheduled on a repeating basis, using maintenance triggers configured for the asset.
Maintenance projection plan
When a recurring schedule is defined, MES projects a series of future maintenance orders for each asset and procedure. This projection ensures visibility of the workload over the configured projection period, typically 730 days.
Planners can adjust projected orders as needed to align with operational demands.
Alignment with calendar
Procedures can be aligned with a shutdown calendar, ensuring maintenance occurs during production downtime. If configured, MES will align maintenance with the nearest shutdown date.
This feature helps minimize disruption to production schedules and ensures labor and material availability during planned downtime.
Prior executions
Users can define how many times a procedure has already been performed on an asset. This is useful when historical data exists from before the system was in use. It enables accurate tracking of total maintenance frequency.
Global scheduling
Maintenance procedures can be defined globally before specific assets are available. The global schedule sets an expected frequency, which can be overridden at the plant level during asset-level scheduling.