Prioritize equipment by the consequence of failure.
Asset criticality ranks equipment according to how strongly a failure can affect safety, quality, production output, repair duration, bottleneck capacity, and business continuity. Criticality helps maintenance teams focus resources where failure matters most.
Plan maintenance around production consequence and execution risk.
Critical assets, outage windows, work scope, parts, labor, restart requirements, and documentation should be considered as one operating system.
Reduce the chance that planned work creates unplanned loss.
Clear scope, prioritization, work sequencing, documentation, spare parts, and restart criteria make maintenance events more predictable.
CRIT-AInclude Constraint Position
Failure at a system bottleneck can have a larger production effect than failure on equipment with excess capacity.
Related Guide →CRIT-BAccount for Redundancy
Parallel equipment, bypass paths, manual backup, or spare capacity can reduce the consequence of a single asset failure.
Related Guide →CRIT-CInclude Repair Difficulty
Specialized skills, long-lead parts, difficult access, and poor documentation can increase the practical criticality of an asset.
Related Guide →CRIT-DUse Criticality to Allocate Effort
Inspection, predictive monitoring, spares, and upgrade budgets should reflect the consequence of failure.
Related Guide →Visualize priority, timing, and execution before the work begins.
These technical views provide a second perspective on the planning decision rather than repeating the hero graphic.
Planning view.
Use a structured view to compare priority, timing, and operating impact.
Execution view.
Separate major work elements so the production impact is visible before shutdown.
Relevant maintenance and plant resources.
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