{"id":155,"date":"2009-07-14T06:25:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psiwebware.com\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2014-02-21T09:08:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:08:47","slug":"maintenance-planning-essentials-%e2%80%93-assumption-and-constraint-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/cmms-software-7\/maintenance-planning-essentials-%e2%80%93-assumption-and-constraint-stages\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance Planning Essentials \u2013 Assumption and Constraint Stages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Assumptions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When looking into the future, some assumptions need to be made for the sake of planning. \u00a0Accurate assumptions can be made through knowledgeable individuals and with effective use of what you already know.<\/p>\n<p>It can be helpful to ask yourself the question, \u201cWhat information do I need to prepare a facility plan for five years from now?\u201d Assumptions should be limited to only the ones that are truly significant to the plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Constraints:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, facility constraints that can impede\u00a0the maintenance plan\u2019s effectiveness are listed separately. \u00a0The goal is to understand the real world issues that you face, such as budgetary pressures, equipment condition,\u00a0facility history, rising energy costs, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Constraints should only be declared when they have the potential to significantly affect your performance objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Planning and efficiency tools such as <a title=\"Building Maintenance Software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psiwebware.com\/cmms\/service-requests.php\" target=\"_blank\">Building Maintenance Software<\/a> can help understand past performance, surges in tenant demand, staffing requirements, and equipment history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal is to understand the real world issues that you face, such as budgetary pressures, equipment condition, facility history, rising energy costs, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[44],"tags":[52,6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"psp_head":"<title>Maintenance Planning Assumption and Constraint \u2013 PSIwebware - Hometown of TAMS<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The goal is to understand the real world issues that you face, such as budgetary pressures, equipment condition, facility history, energy costs, etc.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/cmms-software-7\/maintenance-planning-essentials-%e2%80%93-assumption-and-constraint-stages\/\" \/>\r\n","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ATPx-2v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psiwebware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}