Maintenance & Reliability worked example
PM Compliance Rate at 99% pm compliance target: a worked example
What does the result look like when pm compliance target reaches 99%? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it when supervisors need to know whether the planned PM program is actually being executed as scheduled.
The inputs for this scenario
- Preventive maintenance work orders closed on schedule: 462 PMs (unchanged)
- Preventive maintenance work orders scheduled in the period: 500 PMs (unchanged)
- PM compliance target (schedule attainment goal): 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 95)
Working through the calculation
- Applying the documented formula (PM compliance rate = completed PMs on time ÷ scheduled PMs × 100) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
- At this operating point the engine returns 92.4 % for pm compliance rate, the number this scenario is built around.
- At this operating point the engine returns 6.6 points for gap to pm target.
- At this operating point the engine returns 462 count for completed pms on time.
- At this operating point the engine returns 500 count for scheduled pms.
How this compares with the baseline
- Against the tool's baseline example, where pm compliance target sits at 95% and the headline result is 92.4 %, this scenario lands almost exactly on the baseline at 92.4 %.
- A figure at this level is achievable when pm compliance target is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. It measures completion, not quality, so a PM that's checked off but performed poorly still counts as compliant and can mask deferred problems.
Results at a glance
- PM Compliance Rate: 92.4 % (headline result)
- Gap to PM Target: 6.6 points
- Completed PMs on Time: 462 count
- Scheduled PMs: 500 count
Run it with your numbers
- Every input above is editable in the live PM Compliance Rate calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.