Overview
Timing is an important component of preventative maintenance. Limble offers many basic and advanced scheduling options to meet the unique needs of your team and organization.
After you set your PM schedule, you may have instances that need to be changed based on holidays, certain times of the year, etc.
In this article, learn about the each of the advanced scheduling options offered by Limble and their benefits.
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Advanced PM Schedule Settings
The settings for each of the advanced scheduling options mentioned in this article are configured from the "Schedules" window of a PM.
From the "Manage PM Templates" page, click on the schedule of the desired PM to display the "Schedules" window.
You may have to click on the cog icon to display the Advanced Settings options.
Conditional PM Schedules
Your maintenance team may have instances where PMs need to be skipped to account for holidays or overlapping work; or PMs that only need to be done during specific timeframes.
Conditional PM schedules include:
Holidays, which allow you to specify a specific date or date range for a holiday. Limble includes common US holidays for fast set up. You can also create your own.
Seasons, which allow you to create a date range where PM tasks will only generate within the desired date range. Any preventative maintenance outside the specified season’s date range is skipped.
Skip every “x” occurrence, which allows you to set a PM schedule that is skipped for the specified number of times (X) that the maintenance would normally occur.
Stack PMs
There may be instances where you want a new PM to generate even if the previous occurrence was not completed. In Limble, this is accomplished by using the stack PMs scheduling option.
Stacking PMs is rarely needed for most maintenance tasks. However, some types of routine work benefit from this feature.
Reschedule PM Upon Completion
Rescheduling a PM based on completion allows you to keep a consistent schedule based on when tasks are completed.
This advanced scheduling option is only available for PMs scheduled in days.
By enabling this feature, a PM will generate based on when the task was completed, not based on the schedule. This ensures that the PM is being done based on the need, not on when it is technically “scheduled.”
Schedule at Regular Intervals
Scheduling at regular intervals is an advanced setting specifically for PMs based on a number of units.
Checking this setting will force the PM to generate at the interval of your choosing.
By default, a PM will generate based on the number of units logged from the last completed PM; not at regular intervals. For example, let's assume you have a car that has been driven for 9,000 miles. You schedule a PM to do an oil change every 3,000 miles, so the next oil change would occur at 12,000 miles.
You end up servicing the car at 12,750 miles:
With schedule at regular intervals, the PM would generate at 15,000 miles.
Without a schedule at regular intervals, the next PM would generate at 15,750 miles.
Schedule at regular intervals forces a PM regardless of the number of units logged in the last completed PM.
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