Maintenance goals examples are useful only when each goal is a figure that comes from the department's own records and has a practice attached that moves it. This page gives goals in that form, says how to improve maintenance department performance in the order that pays, and names the maintenance best practices behind each goal. The figures are from this site's worked example, and the point of each is that a department replaces them with its own from the maintenance log or the CMMS.
Goal one: a lower reactive share
Example: reduce reactive work orders from 35% of the month's work to under a quarter within two quarters. It comes from the work order type field. The practice: record the type on every work order, sort the reactive ones by asset, put an inspection or an interval task against each repeater with an interval from its history, and read the share monthly. This is the first goal because every other figure follows it.
Goal two: schedule compliance the team can meet
Example: complete the preventive work orders due each month by their due date, on a schedule levelled to the hours the team has. It comes from the due and completion dates. The practice: level the load, give each task an owner, raise annual tasks with lead time, and read the overdue list every morning. A department that sets this goal on a schedule it cannot carry has set itself up to miss it; the schedule is adjusted first.
Goal three: findings recorded and acted on
Example: every preventive inspection closes with a finding or a reading, and every finding outside a limit becomes a corrective work order within the week. It comes from the findings field and the corrective work order count. The practice: checklists with limits and a findings column, attached to the task, and a supervisor who reads findings weekly. This goal is the one that turns inspections from signatures into maintenance.
Goal four: breakdowns priced and shrinking
Example: reduce the avoidable reactive hours, breakdowns at 3.4 hours against 1.1 planned in this site's example, from $9,273.60 a month towards the preventive programme's $3,168. It comes from the hours field and the loaded rate. The practice: the three goals above, plus spares on the shelf for the assets whose downtime is mostly waiting. Improving a maintenance department is those four goals in that order, each measured from records the department keeps, and the best practices are simply the habits that keep the records true.
Questions people ask about maintenance goals examples
What are good maintenance goals for a new manager?
Know the reactive share by the end of the first month, have a levelled schedule by the end of the first quarter, and have findings recorded on every inspection by the second. Everything else follows.
Should maintenance goals include cost?
Yes, as planned hours against reactive hours at a loaded rate, because that is the figure the site's manager pays for. Cost without the split hides the department's own progress.
How do I improve a maintenance department with no records?
Start the records. The maintenance log worksheet on this site is a month's work to fill, and after that month the department has its first figures and its first goals.