IBM® Maximo® Asset Management Scheduler provides optimization models that you can run to schedule work automatically. When you run an optimization model, the work is scheduled and assigned based on the criteria that you specify. Each model provides results that are tailored to a specific business need.
Some models provide information for long term planning, while others focus on short term planning and assigning work automatically. You can run multiple optimization models and compare the results by creating multiple scenarios.
Planning type | Application | Optimization model |
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Long term planning | Scheduler |
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Short term planning and assignments | Graphical Assignment |
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You can optimize your schedule to balance your resource use, balancing your work demands with the resource pool that is available. Resource leveling optimization ensures that you are not under-utilizing labor resources, or over-allocating work to a specific craft.
Resource leveling ensures that you are not over-scheduling the amount of work that you can get accomplished. When you level resources, you can also meet other objectives, such as minimizing task interruption or labor costs. For example, you can match a work record's required skill level, rather than assigning it to a resource with a higher skill level.
You can optimize your schedule to ensure that you can complete as much work as possible in the allotted time period.
In planning work, you can identify whether additional labor resources are necessary to complete work in a specific timeframe. For example, 100 work orders must be completed this week. Capacity planning optimization ensures that you are using all available labor resources to accomplish your goal. When you set the optimization parameters, you can set other criteria that must be met. For example, you can ensure that work is scheduled only when the asset is available for maintenance.
You can optimize your schedule to automatically assign people and crews to work based on their availability and required skills.
Assigning work can be time consuming for supervisors and planners. Factors to consider include resource availability and the skill level that the work requires. You can set the labor and crew optimization model to accommodate these factors, which are based on your preferences. For example, you can set the optimization model to respect appointments that were made, or use the same labor or crew resource throughout a job.
You can then review the assignments, adjust them as needed, and publish them.
You can optimize your schedule to automatically assign work to people and crews based on their geographic location.
When you use spatial scheduling optimization to assign work, work is assigned based on the locations and work zones of labor and crew resources. Crew types are evaluated and assigned appropriate work, and efficient routes are created. You can then review the assignments in the Gantt view and adjust them as needed, or view them spatially on the Dispatch View tab. You can publish the assignments when ready.