What is a Scheduled Maintenance Plan?

When it comes to warehouse management and/or ownership, it’s important that every single aspect of it is meticulously analysed and tailored according to the trends appearing at the time. Where a scheduled maintenance plan isn’t considered to be ‘trend’ it is, however, paramount to the smooth and safe running of any warehouse, regardless of the industry you’re working in. But what is a scheduled maintenance plan, exactly? Multy Lift are on hand to discuss what it means.

What is scheduled maintenance?

Scheduled maintenance is the act of delegating planned maintenance tasks and dictating when those tasks are carried out. Scheduled maintenance comes under ‘planned maintenance’. Planned maintenance establishes a process whereby maintenance can be carried out and completed and scheduled maintenance simply falls as part of the overall planned maintenance plan.

When an issue or task is identified, an assigned technician who is fully-trained will give the maintenance a deadline for completion. This means that any maintenance tasks that are required need to be executed by a specific date or there could be significant consequences.

The deadline is usually established using a priority list, meaning that issues that could cause harm to a worker or visitor will be resolved first and this will be highlighted in planned maintenance. However, scheduled maintenance will choose the order in which those maintenance tasks are carried out and will be reflected in the overall maintenance plan as a result.

What is planned maintenance?

This involves anticipating any maintenance work that needs to be carried out, planning it in and implementing a process for completing said maintenance. The following should be included in a maintenance plan:

• Details regarding how a maintenance task can be identified
• The materials and workflows required to carry out the maintenance
• How to list maintenance in order of priority
• Outlined procedures for analysing maintenance tasks that have been completed

Not many people are aware that, actually, planned maintenance comes in a wide variety of different types and approaches, including the following:

• Reactive maintenance
• Preventative maintenance
• Predictive maintenance
• Condition-based maintenance

As long as you’re making sure that there’s a maintenance plan in place that’ll adequately address of situation, whether it be something as simple as running a lightbulb and checking it for faults or something more hands on like lubricating a motor, then you can classify it as ‘planned maintenance’ rather than ‘scheduled maintenance’.

Multy Lift are highly-trained, fully-skilled professionals with over three decades of material handling experience behind us. We have a wide range of warehouse equipment available that’ll help to make short work of your operations. Regardless of the industry you work in or the size of your budget, Multy Lift will have the perfect solution for you. From purchasing brand new equipment and used machines to hiring the vehicles you need, you’ll always be able to count on us to help. For more information about the new and used forklifts, reach trucks and order pickers we have available, together with a wide variety of other warehouse machines, get in touch with a member of our expert team today – we’re always happy to hear from you.