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Work Order and General Maintenance Forms
Work Order and General Maintenance Forms
Maracay Extension
Teacher : Bachelors :
January, 2022
Introduction
which it is governed is fundamental to guarantee that each and every one of the units
of the highest quality and may be remuneration for said company. The most optimal way
that has been seen, in recent years, to carry out the mission of maintaining a company
in constant growth is through the documented declaration of the business policy, as well
Along with these two, it is also justified not only preventive maintenance as a high
priority activity to ensure optimal condition of all areas of an organization but also the
registration of these areas that allow corroboration of all the actions that are carried out.
Meanwhile, the following work deals with work orders and the formats that are used,
while illustrating different types depending on how the history of work order
Until 1994, the ISO 9000 series standards considered that maintenance was not an
activity subject to companies, given that they were not exclusively directed to this market
segment. Since the review carried out in 1994, maintenance became recognized by the
ISO as a process control requirement, having been literally cited as indicated below:
1) “identify those design characteristics that are critical to the proper and safe
2) “The supplier must identify and plan the production, installation and associated
services processes that directly influence quality and must ensure that these
of the process…”
supplier must include, in the entire quality system, the adequate maintenance
certification must prepare procedure manuals for the maintenance system, following the
The “objective” – of the maintenance function within the company as “an activity
responsible for increasing the availability and operational reliability of equipment, works
and facilities (especially those fundamental to the final activity of the company),
Areas involved – the sectors of the company in which the maintenance procedures
will be applied;
area with the indication of the occupants of the positions, responsibilities of each one,
orders and closure of services, control criteria for inspection, measurement and testing
equipment;
History – historical records of corrective and preventive actions, labor and materials
correct distortions;
These criteria and procedures must be detailed, involving the types of documents,
coding, identification, qualification, information flow and methods adopted, and can be
Regarding records, the following guidelines are explained in the ISO 9000 series
standards:
appropriate” (55). “…in an automated environment, careful layout can also be obtained
written that indicate the main characteristics of a necessary process that affect the
quality of the product or service and, therefore, become necessary for the general
Classifying the formats, in general, it is understood that they have their relevance in
preventive maintenance. In turn, it is said that the company that prescribes the use of
maintenance documents seeks to be certified under the ISO 9000 series regulations;
That is, it seeks to establish its guidelines for the personnel who will provide the service
for its clients, managing all its processes according to its own Quality Management
With this pyramid you can understand the quality policy required for the company in
question, while each level seeks a representation of the process expectation. At the
higher level, what is defined is the approach and specifies the company's own Quality
Management System. At that level the what and who is responsible for what are defined.
At this level, quality manuals are used, as they describe the quality policy and
System.
At the general level, what is done, how and when is proscribed. Activities that can be
carried out by people in different departments of the organization are collected. For this
level, procedure manuals are used, which allow certain actions to be carried out in the
same way, with a common series of clearly defined steps, which allow them to be
At the specific level, you define who does what and when. This only includes activities
carried out by people who are all from the same department. For this level, the use of
work instruction manuals or work instructions is proposed. These describe the technical
form of each of the actions that make up an activity or task. These are usually operating
In the case of the registration level, the general consensus for this definition is
that compliance with the requirements is evidenced by following the guidelines of the
With this, the use of different types of formats is justified to maintain in writing the
work orders that fall at the registration level, according to quality policy.
What is a work order?
It is a very important communication tool that must include all the necessary
information for the task to be carried out efficiently. You must also specify which team
Characteristics .
2) Issuer (from), where the work order originates and who will supervise the
3) Receiver (para), who receives the work order, and will be the executor of the
entrusted task.
6) Type of work order, where the priority of the work order can be assigned.
7) Report, where the recipient of the work order will make a good description of
the work performed, including the spare parts and the material used, indicating
the inspections carried out and attaching the forms that the work warrants.
2) Work done.
4) Duration times.
7) Record.
8) Awaiting files.
9) Faults or defects.
10)Human Resources.
11)Used materials.
step required to complete a work request. A well-defined work order process will reduce
equipment downtime and help maintain good communication from start to finish. Each
maintenance work order has a life cycle with a few main phases that can be divided into
several steps:
ID
The first step is to identify the problem and report it, mentioning the exact
geographical location. Someone has to create a request and your company must
evaluate it. In this phase, the assigned worker must report the malfunction. If the cause
Creating a request
The request should describe what should be done with what resources, to what
asset, when, why, and how. All work details must be sent to the maintenance team for
appropriate action.
Once the request is accepted, the supervisor must prioritize the task and schedule
it. It is advisable to set a deadline to keep everyone accountable and team members
informed. Technicians must know which work orders are most urgent.
The task will be assigned to a specific technician or team, who will perform it
documented, so you and your team can track important data for other processes.
The first criterion to consider is the individuality of the information associated with
the activity.
necessary to individualize this information such as the modes and causes of failure.
piece of equipment (disassembling a broken one and installing another one in good
carry traceability to the history of the equipment. component installed and disassembled.
assisting operations in simple tasks that do not represent relevance in the intervention,
information and execution time of maintenance events) do not merit the creation of a
work order due to that do not come from the manifestation of a failure mode.
The second criterion for the creation of the OT must be the effects of its
occurrence.
effects are predictable do not require manual generation of OT, because they are
automatically generated by the maintenance software (when the company sees the
need to have these computerized maintenance programs) triggered, from the plans
person. You must also ensure that the work is carried out as it should.
The simplest of work orders can be made in a simple program such as Word or
because they are stored in separate files. While you do this, the downtime is
3) When these factors are evaluated together, the result is poor management that
harms productivity.
For years, Excel sheets were great for maintenance planning. They were cheap,
harder to lose, and easier to archive. However, today, companies need more efficient,
Analyze the performance of the maintenance team in real time (and from
anywhere).
Generate performance reports taking into account metrics such as the cost
store every work order in the cloud, making it available to your entire team at all times. A
mobile device is enough to keep them updated with notifications and requests. It's also
Work order software expands the capabilities of manually generated work orders
in many ways:
Allows you to attach photos of the asset and the necessary repair order.
Third, a mobile work order allows access to an asset's previous maintenance history,
providing technicians with valuable information on the best way to approach a task.
Finally, work order tracking is simpler than ever using CMMS mobile device
capabilities.
work orders, it all comes down to how people use and communicate relevant
information. A CMMS is based on the data that the user provides. If he and his team
make good use of his CMMS, inserting all the data necessary to perform tasks and
collecting reliable data, it will work easily and efficiently. Otherwise it will be as unreliable
as any other method. To avoid this, it is recommended that advice be given to train
equipment and the problem were presented at the top, in the middle part: the planning
data, and at the bottom: the maintenance execution data. , subdivided into two parts:
data for “Team Management” (summary of the service performed and comments on the
The next work order in the evolutionary process was developed for the automated
relation to the previous one, the registration of the “Service Code” with 4 characters,
being:
The first destined for the Occurrence (O), which indicated the origin of the
maintenance team
The last two for the Complement (CPL) of that action. The best terminology for
this code would be: “Occurrence Code”, which would serve to indicate
interventions due to Failures or Defects, and the term “Defect Code” could also
The evolution of the work order model, used in the automated maintenance control
system, generated two punched cards and presented, in relation to the previous one,
work orders, when the execution of the activities exceeded the minimum
The maintenance code composed of the equipment code associated with the
The week and reason for the rescheduling, to allow manual replanning, in case
of any impediment;
The occurrence code composed of four “cells”, that is: the Cause: which
indicated the reason for the occurrence (fault or defect) in the equipment; the
Effect: which indicated how the failure or defect was verified; the Action: which
indicated the verb associated with the executed service and the Complement:
The “wait” that indicated the number of man-hours that remained inactive
failure. That field was associated with the reason code that led those man-
At the beginning of the 1970s, the BOZZ-ALLEN & HAMILTON project emerged,
which presented as a singularity the omission of the collection of labor information in the
body of the work order; This information was collected through a complementary
document called Time Card, with a shape and size similar to the time card, but with
different characteristics, since it served for each performer to indicate, in each service
they received, the day, the hour and minute in which it started and ended, identifying the
The back of this card contains the service, waiting and absence codes to indicate, in
the respective column, the activity carried out, during each period of your day. At any
time, whenever a card is completed, the performer must replace it with a new one to
performers and, consequently, the sabotage of the records, the Time Card should be
impersonal and individual for each maintenance performer, that is, only identify the
position and not the name of the person. As a variant of the Time Card, the Material
Card can be used, whose compilation responsibility is the warehouse manager, which
relates the material supplied to the respective consecutive of the Work Order on the
card.
To implement both the Time Card and the Material Card, orientation and search work
must be carried out with the performers, regarding the compilation, to prevent the data
from being recorded or being recorded incorrectly. unintentionally or on purpose. An
important innovation in the data collection system for automated maintenance control
was the issuance, through the computer itself, of partially completed work orders, based
on data from the Master Preventive Maintenance Program, emphasizing in reducing the
continuous form
With the implementation of the work order for preventive maintenance, issued through
the computer, the idea also arose of using the machine to reprogram activities that were
not executed within an acceptable period and thus, allow this automated reprogramming
work, it was strengthened the concept of Class. During the development of the project,
the waiting period for the computer to return work orders is determined for each activity,
a period that, if exceeded, will result in charging for the reason for non-execution, this
information being transferred. for filing in the data bank for subsequent registration in the
To inform the performer about these deadline limitations, the computer informs
through the Next Rescheduling and Rescheduling Deadline Week fields in the issuance
performers and ensure that scheduled services are performed according to a pre-
established standard, the work order issued by the computer may also contain printed
recommended that the number of lines for each activity scheduled in each component
be limited to thirty.
In the Systems where it is used, to issue the work order for scheduled activities to the
computer, it is necessary to develop another work order model to allow the annotation of
reducing the number of records in the history database and consequently, the search
time, which is important in the case of the use of lower-performance personal computers
in process, it is advisable to use the “Occurrence Code” mentioned above, which will
bring as an additional advantage the possibility of searching the history of a specific
It can also be observed, in this OT model, the inclusion of fields for the annotation, by
the user of the maintenance services (called “client”), of the evaluation of the work
executed through the options: “fully executed” , “provisionally executed”, “reservice” and
“not attended”, as a factor for measuring the quality of maintenance services. This type
of record, which will make it possible to evaluate maintenance management with respect
to production needs, can also be included in work orders for scheduled activities.
In the illustrated work order models for scheduled and unscheduled activities, you can
see the existence of a barcode that can be issued by the computer, to facilitate reading
in integrated systems (for example: so that the person in charge of the warehouse
To avoid the use of one of the models presented in Figures 29 and 30, in the
registration of activities that do not require detail, or for the registration of maintenance
on equipment that does not affect the production process (Class C), or even, To refer to
activities other than maintenance, which require the labor of maintenance personnel, a
common form can be used, the Route Work Order, or Collective Work Order or Work
Order for Various Activities, such as the illustrated model. in Figure 31, where in each
line the record of each service is made, having for each one, only the record of the
beginning and end of the activity, for computer calculation of the duration of the activity.
Figure 6 – Work Order of various or “collective” or “route” activities
Once this form has a monthly “horizon”, to allow your data to be processed and form
part of cost and labor management reports; can receive a monthly consecutive
identification number, which will serve as a reference for registration, in the Time Cards
of the performers, for the calculation of man-hours used in this type of activities.
In case users wish to disaggregate the occupation of labor in maintenance (for Class
C equipment) from the others (Support Services), two Work Orders for Various Activities
with different numbers can be used, one for each purpose. . This observation is also
valid in the case of users who wish to know the occupation of labor in a certain type of
detail that the expectations proposed in the Quality Management System (that is,
expectations proposed in the management of services offered, and that include plan,
control, and improve those elements of an organization that in some way affect or
influence customer satisfaction and the achievement of the results desired by the
organization) are fulfilled and achieved as the practices and activities done or to be
done.
At the same time, the importance of registering compliance with these requirements
and its consecutive activities by demonstrating that its own data can be used in the
search for the improvement of user manuals. and instructive or, well, to demonstrate the
They are those that are issued immediately after a failure occurs or an anomaly is
The information establishes the equipment numbers and location, the physical
needs in relation to the expected quantity of spare parts required when the equipment is
operating in its normal operating conditions. operation. With these data, the technical
If the equipment is new, information can be obtained from the catalogs provided by
the manufacturers, the working conditions and spare parts list for each machine. If the
group is in operation, information can also be obtained from the machine drawings that
exist in the files of the plant engineering department, from supervisors, foremen and
mechanics who know the equipment and its most frequent needs.
Normally you cannot obtain the information from the above parts and it is necessary
to wait for the machine to be disassembled for some repair and take the opportunity to
do a parts count, write down the part number and make a schematic drawing of the
important parts on all its dimensions. All this information will then become part of the
Sheet in order to have all the information summarized (Form No. 1).
inventory sheet
From the plant inventory, a sheet or card will be prepared for each system that will be
called a descriptive file; the vital data of each system are noted on its card. This card
collects in a convenient and concise way, all the essential details of each system so that
Before carrying out this descriptive file, you must have decided:
In the case of mechanical systems, the information that is generally recorded is:
number, model, capacity, speed, weight, representative in Venezuela, etc. (format No.
2).
Mechanical description file
In the case of the electrical system, the information that is generally recorded is:
When the systems are simple, the above data is sufficient, but for more complex or
file card for each of them and join them together. to the main sheet of the file. The list of
spare parts necessary for each piece of equipment must also be included.
Spare parts list
This allows activities to be assigned to several teams and therefore reduce the total
routines to be developed. This classification can also separate special equipment of the
same type, but with very different characteristics, designs, or uses that require the use
of different preventive routines. Finally, the objective is to obtain a list of all the
equipment that the factory has, including its participation in each production process,
having complete knowledge of the work flow of each process and an estimate of the
workload by period.
They are those that originate from established programs, that is, they must be
executed at a pre-established frequency. Its objective is to plan and control the periods
of the existing equipment in terms of its number and its location within the plant area.
The schedules are established to carry out the necessary maintenance with the
The scheduler will receive from the planner the work orders, the planning sheets
(format No. 13) and will select the crews that have responsibility for the execution of
work.
Planning form
The scheduling can be executed on a board (Form No. 14) which includes the work
orders that are in the first to sixth states. Each state is represented by the color of the
bar on the 12-week time diagram or row. Thus, the second state has no bars; The third
corresponds, for example, to a green one, to the fourth, a black one, to the fifth, a red
one. With this dashboard, the situation regarding program compliance is controlled.
Programming board
The personnel schedule must be carried out by the executors using the following
format.
It is issued when any department of the company requires a service that is not
With the control and execution of maintenance through the work order system, the
With the record of all work orders, the total maintenance cost can be obtained.
The diversity of work orders handled in the maintenance unit makes it necessary to
use a scheduling system for the most rational and efficient use of available resources.
A received or planned work order goes through seven states (see work order coding
Fourth: In Execution.
Work orders.
Characteristics.
2) Issuer (from), where the work order originates and who will supervise the
entrusted task.
5) Type of work order, where the priority of the work order can be assigned.
6) Report, where the recipient of the work order will make a good description of
the work performed, including the spare parts and the material used, indicating
the inspections carried out and attaching the forms that the work warrants.
The source of data related to the activities carried out by the maintenance execution
personnel must include the type of activity, its priority, failure or defect found and how it
was repaired, duration, human and material resources used, and other data that allow
evaluating the efficiency of maintenance performance and its implications with costs and
programming.
Goals.
control of the progress and execution of requested workers, providing data for
management control.
Elaboration:
1. Reception number:
Correlative number assigned by the maintenance department to identify and know the
order of arrival of the requests sent. Allows the user to place their order before it is
approved.
2. SOT No:
Work order request number assigned by maintenance after being approved by the
equipment operator. This number is the key to controlling the distribution of costs and
indicates:
1. Emergencies
2. Emergencies
3. Normal Orders
1. Production Section A.
2. Production Section B:
3. Production Section C:
4. Production Section D:
5. Production Section E:
Normal order from production section D and from this section for normal priority, 135
orders have been issued to date (the last order was No. 34135). Then the number to be
Emergency order for industrial services: in the correlative book it is observed that the
last order for this area was No. 24. Then the number to be assigned will be 16025.
If you have a number of areas greater than ten (10), the number of digits will be two
(2) (00-99) and the order number will increase to six (6) digits.
3. Applicant:
filled out by the user to indicate the section to which the cost of the job will be charged
4. Cost center:
Filled out by the applicant, and it is the number that corresponds as the cost center to
5. Person or contact:
Name and surname of the person in charge of providing additional information for the
6. Telephone:
Filled out by the applicant, it indicates the telephone number of the person who will be
the contact.
7. Section:
Location of the area equipment where the service will be executed.
8. Team number:
9. Priority-Observations:
Filled out by the applicant, it indicates the work priorities and appropriate observations
a) Emergencies: Requested by phone and then send the order and apply for: failure
of critical machines (they stop production); unsafe conditions that warrant immediate
action.
action, also include conditions that affect the normal performance of machines or
10. Area
Brief and clear description of the work required, given by the applicant.
14. Application date: Date on which the application is received, completed by the
to be completed.
16. Submitted by: Signature of the maintenance personnel who supervised the work.
16. Submitted by: Signature of the maintenance personnel who supervised the work.
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Signature of the person requesting and receiving the work, confirming the execution.
Indicated by the maintenance supervisor, it indicates the date on which the work was
completed. Open orders: For minor service work (up to 1/2 hour). Very low costs (up to
Bs. 100,000.00) and repetitive, it will be onerous to issue orders for each job. The same
should be considered for production jobs with the same characteristics, for example,
sharpening blades on production equipment. For these jobs there are open orders that
are valid for periods of no more than one year. They can be identified by the first digit,
Conclusion
must have a philosophy for quality policies, a sufficient number of personnel who can
meet and maintain the quality expectations thus established and documentation of any
activity that must be repeated (manual) and that must be corroborated with the previous
one (time card, work orders,...); the latter, always with the aim of being accessible
information such that any new entry of personnel can quickly become familiar with the
Bibliographic references
Augusto, L (2000) Modern maintenance management. First edition. Brazil. Novo Polo
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Navas, J.D. (2001) Practical application of maintenance theory. 2nd Ed. Publications