Maintenance planning and scheduling is important to maximize maintenance workforce efficiency and minimize costs. Without proper planning and scheduling, maintenance operates reactively with excessive non-work time between jobs. Planning involves preparing work orders, bills of materials, resource requirements, methods and estimated times. Scheduling matches jobs with resources and sequences work over time. Effective planning and scheduling can increase a technician's productive work time from 35% to 65% by reducing delays. This significantly improves efficiency and decreases spare parts and backlog costs.