A suitable maintenance costing framework for a medium-sized manufacturing organization should provide a systematic method for planning, recording, controlling, and evaluating all maintenance-related costs. The framework helps management understand the true cost of maintaining equipment, improves budgetary control, supports decision-making, and ensures that maintenance activities contribute to productivity and profitability. Since maintenance departments generally provide support services rather than directly producing goods, an effective costing framework is essential for allocating expenses accurately to production departments and individual products. The framework begins with identifying all maintenance cost elements. These include direct labor costs such as wages, overtime, and employee benefits for maintenance technicians. Material costs include spare parts, lubricants, consumables, replacement components, and maintenance tools. Equipment costs include depreciation of maintenance machinery, workshop equipment, and testing instruments. Other costs include contract maintenance services, utilities, transportation, training, software, insurance, and administrative expenses associated with maintenance management. The next stage is cost classification. Costs may be classified as fixed and variable, direct