Maintenance Backlog: This report will help a maintenance department in determining which work is most important to
conduct, on the basis of the risk, and the time overdue. Each point on the graph represents a work order that is in the backlog.
In this analysis we have correlated the requested task priority, described by Table 4, against the time in backlog for tasks. 30%
of the work is in excess of 500 days, and 7% are in excess of 1000 days. We expect that such work will either already have
been done and has not been closed out, or will never proceed.
The red line in Figure 7 represents the business rule for managing backlog based on Table 4. Hence all work orders to the right
of the red line is outstanding for too long.