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Maintenance Planning & Management

Defining the maintenance concept and every scheduled and unscheduled task: who does what, where, with what, how often.

What it is

Maintenance Planning & Management establishes the maintenance concept (what is repaired at which level) and develops the full set of maintenance tasks — preventive and corrective — including their intervals, resources, and skill requirements. It then manages that plan through life.

Why your contract asks for it

The maintenance concept drives almost every other support decision: spares, tools, training, facilities. Analyses such as LORA and RCM live here, and their outputs flow directly into provisioning and technical publications. Contracts often require a Maintenance Plan as a standalone deliverable.

Typical activities and deliverables

• Defining the maintenance concept and levels of maintenance
• Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analysis
• Level of Repair Analysis (LORA)
• Maintenance task analysis (MTA) and task documentation
• Feeding task data into LSA records and technical publications

Related standards

References indicate alignment with publicly available standards and common contractual practice. This is independent guidance, not an official publication of any standards body.