Understand maintenance schedules

How it works

iMaintain uses asset details, usage, and industry guidelines to suggest sensible schedules. You can edit any task, frequency, date, or priority after the schedule is created.

Priority vs. urgency

Maintenance schedules now include a priority field:

• Low
• Medium
• High
• Urgent

Priority represents how important the task is overall. It is separate from urgency, which is based on timing, such as overdue, due today, or due soon.

You can set the priority when creating or editing a maintenance task. Automatically generated tasks start with a suggested priority, and you can change it at any time.

Existing schedules are also normalized to Medium so priority filters and dashboard views behave consistently. A No priority filter option may still appear for imported or older completed records where iMaintain cannot safely infer a value.

Completed maintenance priority

When you complete a scheduled maintenance task, iMaintain stores the schedule priority on the maintenance history record as a snapshot. This means the completed item keeps the priority it had at completion time, even if you change the schedule priority later.

Care Overview and completed maintenance lists can use that historical priority to show what mattered most when the work was actually finished.