Preventative maintenance tasks
We use the Preventative Maintenance tasks a lot. However it has limitations whioch I think can be improved upon as follows:
- Provide the ability to suspend a PM task for a period of time.
- For example, our business closes down for 10 days over Christmas. We have several weekly PM tasks meaning that we get back to find we have a dozen or more PM tasks sitting in the queues with Escalation messages everywhere etc.
- Provide the ability to say "Start From" date for all schedules and not just the daily schedule.
- I may be advised that we have a new product coming online in 3 months time. As part of the preparation for that product, I might want to set up a PM task starting from a known date after that product is due to go online. I want to do it now so that I can complete my part of the project.
- Provide the ability to set a default resolution for a PM task.
- Many of the PM tasks we use need to ahve the same wording entered each time we execute them.
- While we could create a resolution template for each one, it still means that we have to go find and select them each time.
- Allowing the ability to set a default resolution will ensure the correct and desired resolution is entered each time