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Maintenance Urgency Sync System

Field maintenance triage workflow that scores incoming reports, logs them to Google Sheets, and routes high and low-priority alerts to Slack with a separate error monitor for failures.

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Maintenance Urgency Sync System workflow

Context

Operations teams needed a simple way to triage maintenance reports by urgency, keep a master log updated, and ensure dispatch gets immediate visibility on the most important issues.

Approach

Built two connected n8n workflows: the main flow receives maintenance reports via webhook, calculates a priority score, appends each report to a master log, and branches into high- or low-priority Slack routing; a separate error monitor appends failures to an error sheet and sends a Slack node failure alert.

Architecture

  1. Webhook POST (field report)
  2. priority score calculator
  3. Google Sheets master log
  4. Priority score > 7?
  5. High: dispatch sheet + Slack high-priority alert
Low
  1. Slack low-priority summary
  2. Error path: Google Sheets error log + Slack node failure alert

Results

~4 hrs/weekTriage time saved
Hours → minutesHigh-priority response time
Real-timeDispatch visibility