# Maintenance scheduling

> Turn a maintenance backlog into a sequence that fits the production plan.

- Skill: `vstorm-co/maintenance-scheduling` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add vstorm-co/maintenance-scheduling`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/vstorm-co/maintenance-scheduling/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Product & Planning
- Author: vstorm-co (https://skillmd.com/u/vstorm-co)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/vstorm-co/maintenance-scheduling

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# Scheduling maintenance

Every planned job competes with production. Schedule against the plan, not
against the calendar.

## Rank by consequence

Statutory and safety-critical inspections first — these have dates, not
priorities. Then by what failure would cost: a single point of failure with no
spare outranks a redundant unit, whatever its due date says.

## Fit the window

Match each job's duration and isolation requirement against planned downtime,
changeovers and shift patterns. A four-hour job into a two-hour window becomes
an overrun, which is how planned maintenance loses its slot permanently.

## Check before scheduling

Parts in stock or on a confirmed date · the skill available on that shift ·
permits and isolations arranged · whether two jobs need the same isolation and
can be combined.

## Flag

Anything overdue against a statutory interval, anything deferred more than
twice, and any asset whose reactive work is outgrowing its planned work.

## Never

Schedule without confirming parts, or defer a statutory inspection.