We are ehnancing our cmms datastreasm7. Right now when completing the work order our trades man either record normal or over time spent on the job. Does anyone track other hours on WO such as time spent by tradesman for planning the job, travel time, waiting on work permits, wrench time? Would appreciate some views from other maintenance brothers. Louie

Louie,
We consider all associated time with a workrder to be valuable time. When performing or completing a workorder, all time (i.e. wrench time, travel time, time aquiring parts, research, permits, paperwork, documentation, etc.) are all a part of the total time charged to the workorder. We do not differentiate on the workorder a breakdown of each, only an accumulative total of the time spent. A good planner should help in minimizing some of those.

Louie,
From cradel to grave on a job, all associated time is charged to it. Which includes all that the previous respondent has on the list.

In any of my CMMS projects we recorded all the time spend on a WO.
But in none of these projects we distinguished regular and overtime. This will give you only a very little improvement when evaluating the data. But it will be a big effort on entering the data.
This is then crucial if you have working schemes where the crafts may do overtime which is not extra payed but it will be given as free time (you have to work 40h a week, but not 5 days 8h).

We too have always had craftsmen record all time spent on a job. We also learned that if you are going to compare estimates to actual time spent, the same “extra” time (travel, planning, meetings, etc) need to be included on the estimates for the craftsmen will appear to be spending more time that was thought they would.