2.2 Maintenance Procedures and Routines
This section is concerned with the identification and specification of Maintenance Strategies. These are procedures that specify
a range of tasks for a specific equipment type. A maintenance strategy for an equipment type is a set of procedures, which
covers all preventive maintenance activities for that asset base. These strategies will be subsequently allocated to many
incidents of the same type of equipment across the site.
Assigning a procedure to a specific item of equipment creates a routine. Specifying the timing of the first release of the routine
as a work order is an important issue to obtain a balanced workload during the year and avoid the backlog built-up during the
busy period of the year for a particular site. Adjusting the duration of the routine is required to allow for either travel or access
to the equipment.