CMMS, EAM & Spare Parts Management worked example

Technician Travel Time at 35% site access, escort, permit and route-variation allowance: a worked example

This scenario runs the technician travel time calculation on the strong side: 35% site access, escort, permit and route-variation allowance, with every other input held at its documented default. a maintenance or asset-management team needs to reduce non-wrench time, adjust routing, stage tools and parts, or justify satellite storerooms for a technician route plan

The inputs for this scenario

  • Work orders requiring technician travel: 84 work orders (unchanged)
  • Work orders reached per hour of travel: 5.5 work orders / hr (unchanged)
  • Site access, escort, permit and route-variation allowance: 35 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 30)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Base technician travel time time = work orders requiring technician travel รท work orders reached per travel hour) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 20.62 hr for required technician travel time time, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 15.27 hr for base technician travel time time.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 35 % for site access, escort, permits, tool pickup, and route variation allowance applied.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 5.5 pieces / min for work orders reached per travel hour.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where site access, escort, permit and route-variation allowance sits at 30% and the headline result is 19.85 hr, this scenario comes in 3.85% above the baseline at 20.62 hr.
  • Use it when scheduling a shift of field work, sizing a mobile crew, or quoting travel labor for off-site or multi-building service contracts. Treat this as a target state: the delta against the baseline quantifies what the improvement is worth before you commit to chasing it.

Results at a glance

  • Required technician travel time time: 20.62 hr (headline result)
  • Base technician travel time time: 15.27 hr
  • site access, escort, permits, tool pickup, and route variation allowance applied: 35 %
  • work orders reached per travel hour: 5.5 pieces / min

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Technician Travel Time calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.