Project Management for Equipment Work Orders

A common requirement I get as a consultant is a project management tool for Equipment Maintenance work orders. Maintenance managers want to be able to schedule multiple maintenance work orders during a production 'shutdown period' such as a holiday. They want the ability to see all the work orders within that time period (e.g. 2 weeks), schedule their start/ end dates, plan spare parts purchasing and labour requirements and then capture all the actual cost in one bucket. They then want to report on these costs. Job Cost (or Project Costing) is too much overhead for a 2 week period and there is no need to have a