The capacity plan

Whether the days ahead can actually absorb the work that is due — technician hours against planned load, per site.

Maintenance Due tells you what is due. This tells you whether the day it falls on can take it.

Why it is a separate screen

The due calendar cannot make a claim about capacity. If it wore capacity colours, “eleven rounds on Tuesday” would read as “Tuesday is full” — which the due list has no basis to say. So the two are separate screens, and the due calendar points here.

How to read it

Every figure is computed in man-minutes against the roster — the hours your technicians are actually rostered for, not a headcount. Each cell is a day, and each day reads as:

Reading	Meaning
Clear	The day has room
Tight	Close to full — one overrun and it slips
Over	More work is due than there are hours to do it

The two thresholds are configured centrally, so every screen agrees about what “tight” means.

One row per site

Technicians are rostered at a plant and cannot absorb another plant’s load, so sites are never blended. An average across three sites hides the one that is drowning.

Rows are sorted worst first, because the reason to look at a month is to find the day that does not fit.

What to do about an overloaded day

Move a preventive round

Most plans carry a tolerance — a window either side of the due date within which the round still counts as compliant. Moving inside that window costs nothing. See maintenance plans.

Bring work forward

A clear day earlier in the week can take work off a full one, if the assets can be released.

Add hours

Adjust shifts or add cover for the day under workforce settings.

Send it out

Work covered by a contract can go to the vendor instead. See contracts.

What it counts

Planned work with an estimated duration, against rostered hours. Work with no estimate cannot be weighed — if your capacity plan looks emptier than the shop feels, the usual cause is plans and jobs with no duration on them.

Shutdowns and turnarounds are shown as spans across the days they cover, because a plant that is down cannot absorb ordinary work either.