Start with the failure history, not the calendar
Use a Pareto view of recent failures to choose the next maintenance planning focus.
The move: make the pattern visible before you plan the work. A Pareto chart turns a messy backlog into a ranked view of where maintenance pain is concentrated. Start with one measure that matters to the plant: downtime minutes, safety exposure, emergency labor, repeat failures, or missed schedule hours. Then group the work orders by asset, system, or failure mode and rank them. What repeats Repeat work is a planning signal. If the same asset keeps returning, the job plan may be incomplete, the PM may be weak, materials may be wrong, or the real defect may not have been…
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