Maintenance

A maintenance plan defines a cadence, such as quarterly or the first Monday of the month, and Prova materialises it into dated occurrences across a rolling eighteen-month horizon. When an occurrence falls due, the work order is raised against the right asset with the relevant service agreement already attached. Plans can also run on usage instead of dates: an asset’s runtime meter is fed either by manual readings or by an operating schedule that accrues hours per weekday in the site’s timezone and stops on that jurisdiction’s holidays, and the service order is raised when the counter passes its threshold. Editing a plan regenerates only future dates, and readings are append-only, so a correction supersedes an earlier reading rather than erasing it.

Planned maintenance rarely fails because a team forgets the concept. It fails because the calendar lives in somebody’s head, and leaves when they do. Putting the cadence into the system turns it into forecastable workload, so you can see next quarter’s servicing before you commit the budget. Usage-based plans then fix the other half of the problem: servicing a standby generator every six months regardless of use either wastes money or misses real wear.

In practice

Two pieces of equipment need servicing on completely different logic, and neither depends on anybody remembering.

  1. A plan is written once for AHU-03 at Berlin Nord: quarterly, first Monday. Prova turns that cadence into dated occurrences across the next eighteen months.
  2. On each due date the work order appears against the asset, with the HVAC service agreement already attached, so whoever picks it up can see the contracted response time.
  3. In March the contract moves to six-monthly. Editing the plan regenerates only future dates. The two services already performed stay exactly as they were recorded.
  4. The standby generator at Lyon Sud runs on hours instead. Its operating schedule accrues ten hours per weekday in French local time, and accrues nothing on French public holidays.
  5. A technician enters a real meter reading in April. It supersedes the accrued estimate; the estimate is not deleted, and the lineage stays visible.
  6. The 500-hour service fires when the counter passes 500, whether that lands in month four or month seven.

One estate, two maintenance philosophies, no calendar in anybody’s head. The quarterly plan forecasts workload before the budget is committed; the usage plan stops you servicing a generator that has barely run.

Illustrative walkthrough. Not a customer record.

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