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MAINTENANCE-PLANNING5 MIN READ

Build the critical path for a 12-hour outage

Identify and protect the controlling sequence in a short maintenance outage.

12-hour outage The evaporator outage starts at 6:00 a.m. and must restart at 6:00 p.m. The draft has mechanical, electrical, cleaning, and inspection bars running in parallel. If the overlap is fake, the schedule misses even if every crew works hard. Critical path Find the chain that controls finish Critical-path thinking asks which activities must happen in sequence and which have float. The path with no float gets protected first. Bad shortcut Sort by longest task or loudest owner. The schedule protects the finish, not just the activity list. Protect the sequence that controls handback before optimizing everything around it.…

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