Shutdowns

A shutdown is a window during which equipment is stopped on purpose: an annual overhaul, a line changeover, a planned outage. FreeMaint gathers the work that needs the stop in one place and lets you plan it day by day. Shutdowns are part of the Business tier.

Create a shutdown

1. Open Shutdowns from the sidebar.
2. Create a shutdown: give it a name and its outage window, a start date and an end date.
3. Open it to gather and plan the work.

Gather the work

• Work Orders tab → “Add work orders”: pick machines or locations to list the unfinished work flagged “Requires a machine stop” that no outage holds yet, tick it, then “Attach selected”.
• PM Schedules tab → “Add PM schedules”: pull in active PM schedules (“Due during this outage” keeps the ones due in the window), then “Add to this outage”.
• Lockout register tab: the lockouts recorded on the work orders of this outage.

Plan on the Planning tab

Each attached work order is a bar from its planned start to its planned finish, and the “Due date” marker shows its deadline. A work order with no date yet is marked “unplanned”.

• Drag a bar to move it: its duration is kept.
• Drag its left or right edge to change its start or its finish.
• Drop a work order that has no date on a day to plan it.
• With the keyboard, on a selected bar: the arrows move it by one day, Shift + arrow changes its finish.

What re-planning changes

• An open work order becomes scheduled, through its normal status change, recorded in its history.
• A scheduled, in-progress or on-hold work order keeps its status: only its planned dates change.
• The due date never moves. If the new finish passes it, or the bar leaves the outage window, a warning says so.
• A completed, validated, closed or cancelled work order is locked.
• Re-planning needs the permission to update shutdowns and the permission to schedule work orders.