# Develop maintenance strategies

*/Processes/Develop_maintenance_strategies*

Creating goals and agendas to better realize the success of the maintenance policies that have been put into place.

## Digital Scalar

**Band**: digital
**Digital**: 0.85
**Rationale**: Although the LENS prior falls under the generally physical domain of 'Maintain productive assets', the specific process name and description ('Develop maintenance strategies', 'Creating goals and agendas') dictate a high digital score. Formulating strategies, goals, and policies is pure knowledge and administrative work performed via data analysis and documentation, placing it firmly in the digital band.

## Process Profile

**Outcome**: A formalized maintenance strategy with defined goals, methodologies, and resource allocations is approved and ready for operational rollout.
**Trigger**: A periodic review schedule, the acquisition of a new physical asset, or a significant shift in asset performance metrics dictates the need for an updated maintenance policy.
**Key Steps**:
- Assess current asset performance and historical maintenance data
- Identify specific maintenance objectives and performance targets
- Evaluate and select preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance approaches
- Determine required resources, tooling, and budget allocations
- Review and finalize the maintenance strategy with operational stakeholders
**Measured By**:
- [Strategy Development Cycle Time](/Metrics/Strategy_Development_Cycle_Time)
- [Estimated Maintenance Cost Variance](/Metrics/Estimated_Maintenance_Cost_Variance)
- [Targeted Asset Uptime](/Metrics/Targeted_Asset_Uptime)
- [Strategy Implementation Rate](/Metrics/Strategy_Implementation_Rate)

## Boundary Of Firm

**Outsourced To**:
- [Reliability Engineering Consultancy](/CompanyTypes/Reliability_Engineering_Consultancy)
- [Industrial Maintenance Services Provider](/CompanyTypes/Industrial_Maintenance_Services_Provider)
**Automatability**: augmented
**Routing Summary**:
- Asset-owning firms keep maintenance-strategy work in-house in a Maintenance or Reliability Engineering function, where a reliability engineer chooses the regime (run-to-failure, preventive, condition-based, or predictive) per asset class based on criticality and failure history.
- Failure-history analysis, PM-schedule generation, and failure prediction run on CMMS and predictive-maintenance platforms, but an engineer sets criticality rankings, approves the regime, and owns the trade-off between downtime risk and maintenance cost.
- Firms without standing reliability expertise buy a reliability-centered-maintenance study from an engineering consultancy or hand execution to an industrial maintenance services provider.
**Delivered By Role**:
- [Reliability Engineer](/Processes/Develop_maintenance_strategies/JobTypes/Reliability_Engineer)
- [Maintenance Manager](/Processes/Develop_maintenance_strategies/JobTypes/Maintenance_Manager)
- [Asset Manager](/Processes/Develop_maintenance_strategies/JobTypes/Asset_Manager)
**Asset Specificity**: specific
**Automated By Action**:
- [Analyze Failure History](/Action/Analyze_Failure_History)
- [Generate Preventive Maintenance Schedule](/Action/Generate_Preventive_Maintenance_Schedule)
- [Predict Equipment Failure](/Action/Predict_Equipment_Failure)
**Automated By Software**:
- [Computerized Maintenance Management System](/Software/Computerized_Maintenance_Management_System)
- [Predictive Maintenance Platform](/Software/Predictive_Maintenance_Platform)
**Delivered By Department**:
- [Maintenance](/Processes/Develop_maintenance_strategies/Departments/Maintenance)
- [Reliability Engineering](/Processes/Develop_maintenance_strategies/Departments/Reliability_Engineering)

## Neighborhood

### Parent

- [Plan asset maintenance](/Processes/Plan_asset_maintenance) — parent · Processes

### Siblings

- [Analyze assets and predict maintenance requirements](/Processes/Analyze_assets_and_predict_maintenance_requirements) — siblings · Processes
- [Integrate preventive maintenance into operations schedule](/Processes/Integrate_preventive_maintenance_into_operations_schedule) — siblings · Processes
- [Specify maintenance policies](/Processes/Specify_maintenance_policies) — siblings · Processes
- [Identify work management tasks & priorities](/Processes/Identify_work_management_tasks_&_priorities) — siblings · Processes
- [Conduct resource planning](/Processes/Conduct_resource_planning) — siblings · Processes
- [Create work plans](/Processes/Create_work_plans) — siblings · Processes

### Problems this exposes

- [maintenance strategy not re-tuned as condition-monitoring data accrues](/Problems/maintenance_strategy_not_re-tuned_as_condition-monitoring_data_accrues) — exposes problem · Problems
- [no FMEA-driven choice between run-to-failure, preventive, and predictive](/Problems/no_FMEA-driven_choice_between_run-to-failure,_preventive,_and_predictive) — exposes problem · Problems
- [PM intervals set by OEM default, not asset criticality or failure history](/Problems/PM_intervals_set_by_OEM_default,_not_asset_criticality_or_failure_history) — exposes problem · Problems

### Automated by

- [Predictive Maintenance Platform](/Software/Predictive_Maintenance_Platform) — automated by · Software
- [Computerized Maintenance Management System](/Software/Computerized_Maintenance_Management_System) — automated by · Software
- [Predict Equipment Failure](/Action/Predict_Equipment_Failure) — automated by · Action
- [Generate Preventive Maintenance Schedule](/Action/Generate_Preventive_Maintenance_Schedule) — automated by · Action
- [Analyze Failure History](/Action/Analyze_Failure_History) — automated by · Action
- [Asset Performance Management Platform](/Software/Asset_Performance_Management_Platform) — automated by · Software
- [Reliability Centered Maintenance Software](/Software/Reliability_Centered_Maintenance_Software) — automated by · Software
- [Modeling Maintenance Cost Scenarios](/Action/Modeling_Maintenance_Cost_Scenarios) — automated by · Action
- [Analyzing Failure Modes](/Action/Analyzing_Failure_Modes) — automated by · Action

### Outsourced to

- [Industrial Maintenance Services Provider](/CompanyTypes/Industrial_Maintenance_Services_Provider) — outsourced to · CompanyTypes
- [Reliability Engineering Consultancy](/CompanyTypes/Reliability_Engineering_Consultancy) — outsourced to · CompanyTypes
- [Asset Management Consultancy](/CompanyTypes/Asset_Management_Consultancy) — outsourced to · CompanyTypes
- [Reliability Consulting Firm](/CompanyTypes/Reliability_Consulting_Firm) — outsourced to · CompanyTypes

### Delivered by

- [Asset Manager](/JobTypes/Asset_Manager) — delivered by · JobTypes
- [Maintenance](/Departments/Maintenance) — delivered by · Departments
- [Maintenance Manager](/JobTypes/Maintenance_Manager) — delivered by · JobTypes
- [Asset Management Strategist](/JobTypes/Asset_Management_Strategist) — delivered by · JobTypes
- [Reliability Engineer](/JobTypes/Reliability_Engineer) — delivered by · JobTypes
- [Asset Management](/Departments/Asset_Management) — delivered by · Departments
- [Reliability Engineering](/Departments/Reliability_Engineering) — delivered by · Departments

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