Prioritize PM backlog by failure effect, likelihood, and detectability rather than age alone.
Six PMs are overdue, but the shop has only two bays before the weekend. Choose the two units that should enter first. FMEA-lite: severity, occurrence, detection The common shortcut is to sort by oldest due date. That feels fair, but it can hide failure effect, route criticality, known symptoms, and weak detection windows. List failure effects For each overdue unit, write the likely operational effect if it fails: safety stop, customer miss, cargo loss, route delay, or minor inconvenience. FMEA starts with effects because consequence determines how much attention the failure mode deserves. A lift failure on an accessibility route…
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