​Just when you think we finally have service scheduling nailed down

By: Anonymous Fleet Manager

After many years of refining, modifying and justifying service intervals and regimes those Europeans come up with technology that now has the truck telling us when it needs to be serviced.

So, how do we determine service intervals for something that has none? 

As we all go through a defined process – when birthing a new asset that includes service intervals – we are now scratching our heads as to how to schedule the work and ensure due diligence when servicing these items.

Do we just schedule on time or do we wait for the truck to tell us?

As good maintenance planners we need to schedule for a service or safety check and

what we work out will need to be defined over a period of time when we understand

the application. The technology may now be automating part or all of the process but the fundamentals don’t go away.

One certainty in this world is that work will likely transform over time and we need to be able to embrace that change.

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