Work Order Life Cycle

Understanding the Work Order Life Cycle

Use work orders to manage the work flow of the maintenance tasks and projects. You can manage all of the aspects of a maintenance task or project, including:

• Creating work orders for preventive and corrective maintenance
• Committing inventory to a work order.
• Scheduling multiple tasks and crafts, such as mechanical, electrical, and so on, to a work order.
• Tracking the progress of a work order by status.
• Tracking work order costs, such as materials, labor, and so on.
• Recording unlimited detailed information about a work order.
• Completing and closing a work order.

 A predefined work-order approval process in the workflow system can be modified to suit your business needs.
The steps through which a work order must pass to accurately communicate the progress of the maintenance tasks that it represents are the life cycle of the work order. The work-order life cycle applies to work orders for preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance. You can select to display the Status Change form each time the work order advances through a step in the life cycle.

This diagram illustrates the flow of a work order through a typical work-order life cycle:

1) create the work order.
2) approve the work order.
3) attach parts lists and routing instructions.
4) search for work orders and add costs to work orders, parts list, and labor costs.
5) complete the work order.
6) close work order.
7) review and analyze work orders, parts list information, work order costs, project costs, and work order budgets.