Maintenance heads and planners
Need to pick the jobs that matter most for the window, and to explain why others were deferred.
Manufacturing / Shutdown Maintenance Planning
AI shutdown maintenance planning for manufacturing plants
Plants that run around the clock get a short shutdown window each month and a backlog far longer than the crew can clear. Agnotic Technologies builds shutdown maintenance planning software that scores every pending job, reads shift logbooks and technician photos, and proposes a plan that fits the window.
One list
Plan, breakdowns and logbook together
One score
The same rule for every job
SAP PM
Planned jobs become work orders
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Industry Overview
What is shutdown maintenance planning software?
Shutdown maintenance planning software gathers every pending job, logbook abnormality and breakdown record into one list, scores each job on criticality, safety and failure risk, and proposes which jobs fit the next shutdown window and crew. Agnotic Technologies builds it in front of SAP PM, so the planner approves the plan and the jobs become work orders.
Who it is for
Who plans the shutdown, and what does each person need?
One shutdown plan serves several people. Each one needs a different view of the same job list.
Reliability and condition monitoring engineers
Want vibration, temperature and breakdown history to count when jobs are ranked.
Shift supervisors and technicians
Record abnormalities during the shift and need them to reach the plan without retyping.
Plant and operations heads
Need to see the risk carried by every deferred job before the line restarts.
Contractor coordinators
Size contractor manpower to the jobs that fit, and brief outside crews on isolation steps.
Industry Challenges
Why does shutdown planning still depend on one person?
Most plants have the data. It is spread across sheets, a book and a chat group.
The maintenance plan, the breakdown record and the shutdown record sit in separate Excel sheets.
Abnormalities are written in a hard copy logbook on the shop floor, one page per shift.
Technicians share photos and videos of a fault in a chat group, and the planner walks back to the equipment to understand it.
Priority codes say how fast to act, not how much a job matters, so supervisors mark their own jobs as top priority.
The plan is built from one senior engineer's experience, and nobody else knows why a job was deferred.
A job that should have been done during the shutdown slips through and comes back as a breakdown.
Job scoring
How should each shutdown job be scored?
The scoring rule we start from. The weights are agreed with your maintenance head; the rule that every job is scored the same way does not change.
| Factor | What it measures | Where the data comes from | How it moves the score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equipment criticality | How much the plant depends on the asset | Criticality ranking on the equipment master or functional location | Critical assets start higher |
| Safety and environmental risk | Harm if the job is not done | Abnormality notes, inspection findings and the job's isolation needs | Any open safety risk lifts the job to the top band |
| Condition margin | How close readings are to their limits | Vibration, temperature, current and oil readings from condition monitoring | Readings near the limit raise the score; a rising trend raises it more |
| Failure probability | Likelihood of failure in the next 30 days | Breakdown records and condition history for the asset | Added where there is enough history; left out where there is not |
| Deferral count | How many shutdowns the job has already missed | The plan's own record of past shutdowns | Each deferral adds weight, so no job disappears |
| Line stop impact | Whether a failure would stop production | Process flow and redundancy for the asset | Single points of failure score higher |
Our Approach
How does Agnotic approach shutdown maintenance planning?
Three decisions shape the build. We make them with your planners before writing any code.
One list before planning starts
Plan items, logbook abnormalities, breakdown follow-ups and inspection findings land in one register, so nothing waits in a separate sheet or book.
One scoring rule everyone can see
AI maintenance job prioritization works only if people trust it, so the score shows its factors and the planner can see why one job ranks above another.
Software proposes, the planner decides
The system suggests a plan that fits the window and the crew. The planner adjusts it, and every change and deferral is recorded with a reason.
Capabilities
What do we build for shutdown maintenance planning?
Modules that follow one abnormality from the shop floor to a closed work order.
Digital shift checklists
Fixed fields for equipment, parameter, reading and observation on a tablet, working offline on the shop floor and syncing when back in range.
Maintenance logbook digitization
Crews who prefer paper photograph the logbook page, and an AI model reads it into rows that a supervisor checks before they join the list.
Photo and video fault reports
Photos and short videos attach to the abnormality itself. Vision models suggest the likely issue, such as a leak, misalignment or abnormal wear, for the planner to confirm.
Job scoring
Every job scored on criticality, safety, condition margin, failure probability, deferrals and line stop impact, with the factors shown next to the score.
Failure probability
Models trained on your breakdown records and condition data estimate which assets are most likely to fail in the next 30 days.
Shutdown plan builder
Fits the highest-scoring jobs to the window, the permanent crew and the contractor manpower available, and shows what is deferred and the risk it carries.
Job packs with isolation steps
Each planned job carries its lockout or tagout steps, permits, parts and tools, so crews and contractors start with the same brief.
Shutdown close-out
What was done, what was found and what was deferred is recorded after every shutdown, and deferred jobs carry their score into next month.
How It Works
How does one abnormality become a shutdown job?
The planning workflow we build. Scoring is one step in it, not the whole system.
Record
A shift crew logs an abnormality on the checklist, or photographs the logbook page, with a photo or video of the equipment.
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Describe
Vision and language models suggest what the fault is likely to be and which asset it belongs to; a supervisor confirms.
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Score
The job is scored on the agreed factors and joins the register beside plan items and breakdown follow-ups.
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Fit
Before the shutdown, the plan builder proposes the jobs that fit the hours, crew and contractors; the planner adjusts and approves.
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Execute
Approved jobs go to SAP PM as work orders with their job packs, isolation steps and parts.
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Close
Completion and findings come back from SAP PM, and deferred jobs carry their score and a higher deferral weight into the next plan.
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Engineering Stack
How does it work with SAP PM and condition monitoring?
Maintenance work order prioritization software should sit in front of the system of record, not replace it. Clean, ranked jobs flow into SAP PM, and completion data flows back.
SAP PM
Equipment and functional locationsMaintenance notificationsMaintenance ordersOrder confirmations and history
Condition data
Vibration monitoringTemperature and thermal readingsMotor currentOil analysis results
Shop floor capture
Tablet checklists that work offlinePhone photos and short videosPhotographed logbook pagesExcel import of the current plan
Platform
Role-based access by plant and lineAudit log of every score change and deferralModel monitoring and retrainingAWS, Microsoft Azure or on premises
Measured Impact
What should a shutdown planning program measure?
Measures that show whether the plan is choosing the right jobs, not just more jobs.
Planned jobs done
Completed in the window
Jobs finished against jobs planned, by shutdown.
High-score deferrals
Top jobs left out
How many top-band jobs were deferred, and why.
Breakdowns after deferral
Deferred jobs that failed
Shows whether the scoring rule needs new weights.
Planning effort
Time to build the plan
Hours from backlog to an approved shutdown plan.
Use Cases
Where do plants usually start?
First releases scoped to one line or one step of the workflow.
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Score the current backlog
Import the Excel plan and breakdown record, and score every open job the same way.
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Digitize the shift logbook
Checklists or logbook photos turned into one list of open abnormalities.
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Photo-based fault capture
Technicians attach photos and videos to faults instead of posting them to a chat group.
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Failure prediction for rotating equipment
Motors, pumps, fans and gearboxes with vibration and breakdown history.
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Contractor manpower planning
Matching contractor crews to the jobs that fit the window.
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One line, one shutdown
The full workflow run on one line beside the current plan before it goes wider.
Integrations
Which systems does shutdown planning connect to?
Where jobs come from and where planned jobs go.
Notifications and work orders
SAP PM
Work orders
Other CMMS and EAM systems
Vibration and temperature
Condition monitoring systems
Process parameters
Plant historian and SCADA
Import
Excel plans and records
Parts reservation
Spare parts inventory
What we check
What should be ready before the shutdown starts?
The readiness checks the plan builder runs for each shutdown. A job that fails a check is flagged, not silently dropped.
Job list
- Every open abnormality and breakdown follow-up is in the register
- Each job has a score and its factors are visible
- Deferred jobs from the last shutdown are carried forward
Safety and isolation
- Each job has its lockout or tagout steps attached
- Group lockout is planned where a crew shares a machine
- Contractors have received the plant's isolation procedures
Crew and contractors
- Permanent crew hours are matched to the planned jobs
- Contractor manpower is booked for the jobs that need it
- Shift handover of locks and tags is planned
Parts and tools
- Spare parts are reserved for every planned job
- Special tools and lifting equipment are booked
- Jobs waiting on parts are flagged before the window opens
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We combine deep technical expertise with industry-specific knowledge to deliver solutions that aren't just functional, but transformational.
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Accelerated Time-to-Market
Using our suite of internal tools and proven frameworks, we cut setup work so your first release reaches users sooner.
Embedded AI Integration
Beyond simple wrappers, we build deep-learning integrations and predictive analytics directly into the core of your industry-specific workflows.
Engagement Model
How does a shutdown planning engagement run?
We start with your own backlog. It depends on scope; we agree a fixed first release on the scoping call.
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Scoping call
We review how the shutdown plan is built today, the records it draws on and how SAP PM is rolled out in your plant.
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Score your backlog with you
Your planners and our engineers score a real backlog together, which fixes the factors and their weights.
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Fixed-scope first release
The register, scoring, shift capture and plan builder for one line, with work orders going to SAP PM.
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Run beside the current plan
The software proposes a plan for a real shutdown while the planner still builds one the usual way, so the two can be compared.
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Extend
More lines, failure prediction and photo analysis, retrained from what each shutdown found.
Facts and sources
Which rules shape shutdown maintenance work?
Shutdown jobs are servicing work on isolated equipment, so the US lockout/tagout rule shapes the job packs and the crew plan. Your local rules may add more.
OSHA's lockout/tagout standard requires employers to develop, document and use procedures for controlling hazardous energy whenever employees service or maintain machines or equipment.
Source: 29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4), OSHA (eCFR)When servicing or maintenance is performed by a crew, craft, department or other group, OSHA requires a group lockout or tagout procedure that gives each worker protection equivalent to a personal lockout or tagout device.
Source: 29 CFR 1910.147(f)(3), OSHA (eCFR)When outside servicing personnel such as contractors work on equipment, OSHA requires the on-site employer and the outside employer to inform each other of their lockout or tagout procedures.
Source: 29 CFR 1910.147(f)(2), OSHA (eCFR)OSHA requires specific procedures during shift or personnel changes so that lockout or tagout protection is transferred in an orderly way between off-going and oncoming employees.
Source: 29 CFR 1910.147(f)(4), OSHA (eCFR)
Voice of success
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“I can clearly see how Agnotic has a unique way of handling end-to-end development. They are always active on quick chat and provide support quickly.”
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Founder, Benchmark
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Condition monitoring software
Vibration, temperature and other machine readings checked against alarm limits, with confirmed alarms sent to maintenance.
Production planning and scheduling
Production schedules that need to know when the shutdown window falls.
Automated visual inspection
Image review and defect flags that add inspection findings to the maintenance backlog.
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Quality records and corrective actions that often trace back to equipment condition.
SAP PM integration services
Notifications, maintenance orders and measurement readings exchanged with SAP PM as it rolls out line by line.
Custom maintenance planning tool vs CMMS add-on
When a planning module inside your CMMS is enough, and when a separate planning tool fits better.
Custom manufacturing software development
Plant software built around your own lines, records and systems.
Cross-Industry Reach
The Same Engineering Patterns, Across Other Industries
The technical patterns behind this platform translate naturally into adjacent verticals.
Frequently Asked Questions
Put every pending job in one list, then score each one on the same factors: equipment criticality, safety risk, how close condition readings are to their limits, failure history, how many shutdowns it has missed and whether a failure would stop the line. Fit the highest scores to the hours and crew you have, and carry deferred jobs forward with extra weight.
AI helps in three places: reading logbook pages and technician photos into structured records, estimating which assets are most likely to fail from your breakdown and condition history, and proposing a plan that fits the window. The planner still reviews and approves every plan.
Yes. A photo of a handwritten logbook page can be read by an AI model and turned into rows for equipment, parameter, reading and observation. A supervisor checks the rows before they join the job list, because handwriting and local shorthand vary.
Yes. The planning software sits in front of SAP PM: it reads equipment, functional locations and open notifications, and sends approved jobs back as maintenance orders. Completion data returns from SAP PM after the shutdown. It also works with plants that are rolling SAP PM out line by line.
No. It removes the work of gathering records and ranking jobs by hand, and it proposes a plan. The planner decides, and every change or deferral is recorded with a reason so the next planner can see it.
Yes. Most plants start by importing the Excel maintenance plan, breakdown record and shutdown record, scoring the open jobs and comparing the result with the plan the team would have built by hand.
The number of lines and assets, how the abnormality data is captured today, whether failure prediction is in the first release, and the SAP PM or CMMS integration. We explain these drivers on the scoping call instead of quoting a fixed price.
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