How many crew-weeks is your maintenance backlog?
This free calculator converts your outstanding maintenance work into crew-weeks, the standard way to size a backlog, by dividing total outstanding work hours by available maintenance hours per week. A healthy ready backlog is around 4 to 6 crew-weeks.
Backlog is easiest to judge in crew-weeks rather than raw hours or job counts. Enter your outstanding work and weekly capacity to see where you sit against the healthy 4 to 6 week range. Nothing leaves your browser.
Estimated labour hours in all outstanding (incomplete) work orders.
Crew size x productive hours available for backlog work each week.
A rough sizing. Healthy ready backlog is about 4 to 6 crew-weeks. Much more, or a figure that keeps growing, signals deferred work accumulating as future failures.
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