| It’s more than software. It’s
a new way to schedule. |
| Resource Leveling Program (RLP) functionality |
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Resource leveling automatically prioritizes work
demand (backlog) against your availability by craft. Multi-craft
work orders are no problem for the RLP. |
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The RLP runs from within the MAXIMO system – eliminating
the need to migrate data out and back. |
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The RLP quickly generates a weekly schedule which enhances departmental
coordination, plus, helps you reduce reactive maintenance |
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An innovative “order of fire” concept enhances the
prioritization process and is totally controlled by the administrator – as
every site is different |
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Screens and reports are designed to present information that’s
easy to understand and use |
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Software is low-cost and requires minimal installation and training |
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A Return on Investment period measured in weeks makes it easy
to justify |
| RLP is built differently than other scheduling tools. |
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The RLP is not a critical-path tool such as MS Project
and Primavera. RLP takes your backlog as well as emergency work
and schedules the most critical work orders based on Craft labor
availability on a weekly basis. No other software does this.. |
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A key difference between the RLP and other scheduling tools is
that the RLP is based on an automated comparison of demand versus
availability – inside MAXIMO. It uses a unique “order
of fire” concept to define backlog processing. |
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Most maintenance backlogs are not reviewed in the short timeframe
of a weekly meeting. Instead the supervisors ‘suggest work’ to
be added. A more effective approach would be to actually use the
MAXIMO database. The RLP allows the administrator to develop
logic statements based on multiple selection criteria to control
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exact order of work order processing – and –accommodate
for resource availability. |
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Dramatic savings in both time and resources come from the way
the RLP evaluates and prioritizes work orders then allocates craft
labor to them. Your time is valuable. And not every organization
has a fully trained scheduler. |
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The RLP uses Maximo calendars and planned absences to generate
an up-to-date resource pool. The RLP also allows schedulers/planners
to arbitrarily set a “reactive maintenance” factor.
For example; a craftsman paid for a 40 hour week would be shown
as “available” only 32 hours if his craft factor were
set at 80% |
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Unlike shutdown or capital projects planning, typical maintenance
scheduling does not require logic ties, critical path or resource
analysis. Weekly/daily scheduling is mostly a collection of work
activities with no inter-dependencies |
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Schedule generation of the weekly (or other period) schedule
takes only a few minutes even if tables include thousands of work
orders, multiple crafts and hundreds of craftsmen. The benefit
of this is, you could make a quick change in the meeting, and re-run
if necessary. |
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Since no data transfer process is involved there will be no software
program limitations on the level of calendar data transferred. |
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The RLP does not change Maximo table data in any way. Nothing
is sent from the RLP to the Maximo tables. Therein, the RLP can’t
corrupt data. |
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It’s impossible to use out-dated data since the RLP always
acts on current tables within Maximo. |
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Developing a schedule based on data from Maximo provides an extra
level of management control over the work that was scheduled. Compliance
analysis is now straight-forward. |
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With proper training, the RLP program can be effective even if
your organization does not have planners. |
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