Maintenance Planning involves the process of setting up maintenance policies on how a certain equipment object, tool/equipment, or linear asset is maintained, where the purpose is to strive for a higher uptime of equipments to run almost continuously while ensuring smooth running and to meet regulatory requirements. For example maintenance policy could include the required work list, materials, tool and equipments and other expenses to maintain an object in a site. There can be different conditions or circumstances like calendar, event or criteria that could trigger or influence such maintenance planning.
Maintenance Planning could be planned for either an object or on a set of objects categorized by item class.