Scheduling Preventive Maintenance

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Q: I've set up a preventive maintenance schedule for my equipment, but work orders don't appear on the days when a preventive maintenance task should be performed. What's going wrong?

A: MainBoss does not automatically generate work orders—you have to tell MainBoss to create the work orders. You do this with Work Orders —> Generate Work Orders. MainBoss opens a window where you specify a range of dates for which you want work orders; for example, if you want to create work orders to the end of the month, specify the last day of the month in "Generate up to". When you click Ok, MainBoss will generate work orders for all preventive maintenance tasks that should be carried out in the time range specified.

By default, MainBoss sets up the Generate Work Orders dates so that you can generate work orders every week. To change this frequency (for example, generating the work orders once a month), use Administration —> Preferences —> Other; then set the "PM Generate Frequency" field to a number of days. For example, if you set "PM Generate Frequency" to 30, MainBoss assumes you intend to generate work orders once a month rather than every week.

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