What is maintenance overtime percentage?
Maintenance overtime percentage is overtime hours as a share of total maintenance hours. Rising overtime alongside flat output is a classic symptom of a reactive plant, where emergency work fragments the day and pushes jobs past normal hours.
Benchmark
| Benchmark | |
|---|---|
| Good | Low and stable, used for genuine peaks rather than to cover routine reactive work. |
| Warning sign | High or climbing overtime with flat throughput usually signals a reactive, poorly planned operation. |
Why it matters
Overtime is one of the most visible symptoms of poor planning, and it is expensive at premium rates. When overtime climbs without a matching rise in output, it is almost always paying for the disruption that better planning would remove.
How to improve it
Attack the reactive work that drives emergency overtime, plan and schedule properly so jobs fit normal hours, and use overtime deliberately rather than as a default.
Frequently asked questions
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