CMMS, EAM & Spare Parts Management worked example

PM Labor Capacity at 14% route, lockout, access, documentation, and parts staging allowance: a worked example

This worked example runs the pm labor capacity numbers for a tougher week than the baseline: 14% route, lockout, access, documentation, and parts staging allowance instead of the typical 20%. Estimate technician labor time required for preventive maintenance tasks due in the planning window.

The inputs for this scenario

  • PM tasks due in the planning period: 420 PM tasks (held at the documented default)
  • PM tasks completed per technician hour: 4.6 PM tasks / hr (held at the documented default)
  • Route, lockout, access, documentation, and parts staging allowance: 14 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 20)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Base PM labor capacity time = PM tasks due in the planning period รท PM tasks completed per technician hour.
  • Required PM labor capacity time works out to 104 hr at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Base PM labor capacity time works out to 91.3 hr at these inputs.
  • route, lockout, access, documentation, and parts staging allowance applied works out to 14 % at these inputs.
  • PM tasks completed per technician hour works out to 4.6 pieces / min at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where route, lockout, access, documentation, and parts staging allowance sits at 20% and the headline result is 110 hr, this scenario comes in 5% below the baseline at 104 hr.
  • Use it during weekly scheduling, shutdown planning, or staffing reviews to confirm your PM workload fits available labor capacity before you commit a schedule. A result at this level usually justifies acting on the stressed input before touching anything else, because every other figure in the table is downstream of it.

Results at a glance

  • Required PM labor capacity time: 104 hr (headline result)
  • Base PM labor capacity time: 91.3 hr
  • route, lockout, access, documentation, and parts staging allowance applied: 14 %
  • PM tasks completed per technician hour: 4.6 pieces / min

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live PM Labor Capacity calculator, set route, lockout, access, documentation, and parts staging allowance to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.