Maintenance Planning

Last Updated on November 18, 2022 by maximosecrets

This section on Maintenance Planning covers the applications across several modules, Resources, a part of Administration, Planning, including Safety, and Preventive Maintenance. It will not include Dynamic Job Plans as this will be covered as part of Work Management.


  • People and Person Groups

    People and Person Groups

    Learn about two of the applications in the Resources module which are considered core data and likely to be used by all Maximo clients, People and Person Groups.

  • Craft, Labor and Qualifications

    Craft, Labor and Qualifications

    Learn about three of the applications in the Resources module, Crafts, Labor, and Qualifications and how they work together.

  • Crew Types, Crews and Crew Work Groups

    Crew Types, Crews and Crew Work Groups

    Learn about Crew Types, Crews and how Crew Work Groups fit in. If multiple technicians or engineers normally work together then crews are used, it is not just for utilities.

  • Calendars, Shifts and People/Crew Availability

    Calendars, Shifts and People/Crew Availability

    Learn about one of the first steps in Planning and Scheduling Maturity, availability. Calendars and Shifts are defined before modifying the work periods to define People/Crew Availability.

  • Job Plans

    Job Plans

    Learn about Job Plans, the template for a work order. Sorry, there’s no room to squeeze in Dynamic Job Plans.

  • Routes and Collections

    Routes and Collections

    Learn about two similar applications Routes and Collections and when you would use one or the other.

  • Master PM

    Master PM

    Learn about Master PMs a template for frequency based Preventive Maintenance (PM) records. We also consider Master PMs used with Asset Templates.

  • Preventive Maintenance – Time Based

    Preventive Maintenance – Time Based

    Learn about time based Preventive Maintenance, a first step before meter-based PMs, PM hierarchies, and PM Forecasting which we will cover later.

  • Meter Based PMs and PM Hierarchies

    Meter Based PMs and PM Hierarchies

    Learn about Meter Based PMs including mixed Time and Meter PMs. Learn about PM Hierarchies.