Making Maintenance Manageable
The M-PET architecture is predicated on the notion that a Job is a Job is a Job regardless of its origin or underlying 'type'.
In other words PM Jobs are no different from Corrective or Capitol improvement Jobs. They all require that a description of the procedures to be performed
be combined with details about who is to perform it, how long it should take and any parts or special tools which may be required. The whole system revolves
around defining work with it's required resources, scheduling it and distributing it to personnel as efficiently as possible. The rest of the system 'merely'
provides a record of the extent to which the scheduled work was done and tools for measuring and improving equipment reliability. So, to M-PET all Jobs
are essentially equal. Of course all Jobs are NOT equal to maintenance personnel and system provides many facilities so this fact can be properly reflected,
but all Jobs are stored in the same place in the database and all end up in the same place in History. What varies is how Jobs enter the system. There
are basically four ways Jobs enter the system: