Prometheus Planning & Scheduling for Maximo (AKWIRE) offers an out-of-the-box solution that streamlines maintenance processes, manages internal work order system, and increases the functionality of your Maximo work order system. The solution includes tools to improve and enhance every stage of the maintenance workflow, all while keeping a single source of truth within Maximo.

Made up of four core modules, organizations working within a Maximo environment gain increased visibility into the maintenance planning and execution process. This includes tools to manage daily and weekly routine or preventive maintenance, resource availability, job plan refinement, time capture, and shutdowns, turnarounds, or outages within IBM Maximo.

vScheduler

vCalendar

vJobPlan

vTimeSheet

Budget Management

Warranty Tracker

vScheduler

Comprehensive planning and scheduling tool in an easy-to-use graphical format. vScheduler will not interfere with Maximo performance regardless of data set size.

• One-click scheduling, assigning and filtering
• Intuitive interface to handle calendar exceptions and shift/crew schedules
• Schedule and assign resources within the same screen
• Forecast PMs far into the future so you can preview and plan for your PM workload in advance
• Ability to save unlimited number of layouts regardless of number of users

vCalendar

Provides a simple graphical user interface that allows teams to view labor, craft, and crew calendars and modify their availability with a single click. Easily maintain and adjust calendars with maintenance and operation team schedules.

• Display labor lists based on crew, individual, or any other custom grouping within Maximo
• Edit a technician's shift, calendar, supervisor, crew, and availability ratio on a user friendly interface
• Quickly assess how changes in resource availability, such as vacation and training, will impact unscheduled work order jobs
• Simultaneously enter exceptions for multiple individuals and for multiple days or weeks
• Supports your Maximo custom reason codes

vJobPlan

Work order scheduling tool that provides a configurable, detailed view of Maximo Job Plan. This allow teams to quickly determine where duration and timing changes would increase the accuracy of scheduling activities.

• Update multiple job plans at one time instead of updating record by record.
• Single click status updates
• Create a job plan from the work plan and make immediate modifications
• Powerful sorting and filtering of data
• Quickly and easily update job plans based on planned vs. actual work completion rates
• Increase your planning and scheduling accuracy by ensuring your job plans utilize accurate durations

vTimeSheet

Time entry tool that allows maintenance teams to: view time entries; planned vs. actual hours; scheduled (assigned) vs. actual hours; and more. Teams can also modify records where deviations exist.

• Quickly navigate to a desired work date with minimal clicks.
• View and enter time by crew, craft, or any other custom grouping in calendar view.
• Powerful sorting and filtering of your data.
• View daily total hours by labor or by work order.
• Change work order status.
• Access to role-based time approval capabilities.

Budget Management

Take true control of your budget with a solution designed for asset and maintenance management.

• Integrates with your financial system, making it easy to track maintenance spend
• Approval workflow ensures budgets are only finalized when fully vetted and approved
• Build budgets with zero-based forecasts, what-if scenarios, or historic actuals
• Adjust work plans as needed based on budget realities and create transparency
• Improve asset utilization by ensuring critical assets have appropriate budget allocation
• Justify budgets based on the latest maintenance plans and forecasts in real time

Warranty Tracker

Submit successful warranty claims that contribute hard dollar savings directly to your bottom line.

• Recover or avoid maintenance costs by ensuring that in-warranty repairs are reimbursed.
• Achieve budget targets for maintenance with improved visibility and tracking.
• Increase uptime, improve equipment design, and strengthen supplier relationships.
• Automatically flag work orders that are under warranty and review and submit claims.
• Track and identify resources by item or asset level, then monitor activity through the warranty expiration date.

Prometheus Planning & Scheduling for Oracle takes an asset-centric approach to planning and scheduling. Built for Oracle maintenance management, the solution focuses on asset criticality, urgency, and preventive maintenance schedule compliance to maximize production uptime and optimize asset performance.

With seamless integration into the Oracle system, Oracle maintenance scheduling software ensures Oracle eAM as the single source of truth. Prometheus Planning & Scheduling leverages features like drag-and-drop, snap-to-grid, multi-select, and dynamic filtering tool to create a powerful, easy-to-use solution, increasing the rate of user adoption.

Scheduling

Supervisor’s Worksheet & My Schedule

KPI Center and Dashboard

Availability

Security, Configuration & Adoption Metrics

Work Order Completion

Scheduling

A comprehensive Oracle maintenance management scheduler featuring an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. Scheduler can quickly sort work orders and requests into meaningful sets using powerful filters and tools as well as perform bulk edits.

• Schedule at any of the header or operation levels.
• Staged environment allows users to evaluate the impact of their scheduling decisions using real-time, user configurable KPIs before posting to Oracle.
• Filter incomplete work orders from the process, improving execution and performance.
• Group resources from Oracle into logical working units and manage crews the way they work best in your environment.
• Allow users to view and analyze resource utilization either daily or up to a month in advance with multi-filtering capabilities.

Supervisor’s Worksheet & My Schedule

The Supervisor’s Worksheet provides powerful capabilities to view and edit crew schedules, reallocate work, roll work over, or send it back for rescheduling to balance loads.

• Supervisor can search the “Ready” backlog for break-in work and publish crew schedules as needed through the export function.
• Provide crafts and technicians access to time entry tool.
• Review past work performance using the integrated KPIs.
• All time entries are submitted for review and approval prior to posting to Oracle.
  

KPI Center and Dashboard

All KPIs, including maintenance KPIs, are configurable to the user and role, ensuring that everyone sees the information most important to them.

• View dynamic, graphic representations of important metrics used to optimize maintenance efficiency.
• Configure KPIs to provide necessary feedback to improve compliance with existing processes.
• Get an expanded view of KPIs, allowing users to see eight KPIs at once, instead of the typical four presented within the standard modules.

Availability

Increase overall workforce efficiency by using a graphical interface in order to simplify resource loading.

• Provides accurate measurements of organization and resource loading while planning and scheduling maintenance activity.
• Fully configurable to reflect the crews and relative hours of availability of your specific environment.

Security, Configuration, & Adoption Metrics

Give administration team complete control over access to information, configurable features to fit the need of the organization, and unprecedented insight into user buy-in and adoption of process improvements.

• Teams have the ability to manage roles, manage users, and restrictions. Certain roles can be granted access to security permissions. Through Oracle eAM, these roles are then applied to users.
• Define role-level functionality within the application for situations where your process identifies the need to restrict access.
• Give administrators the ability to manage several different settings, including the option to edit language files quickly and modify which work order status appear in specific modules.
• Provide your administration team visibility into important metrics, sharing information such as usage metrics (logins and edits by users), performance metrics (posts, break-ins, or work orders), and a summary view.

Work Order Completion

Robust work order system that allows users to complete and un-complete non-rebuildable and rebuildable work orders. The completion or non-completion process can be accomplished against one, some, or all selected work orders.

• Users can record information such as status, start date and durations of shutdowns, reconciliation codes, failure dates, and failure, cause, and resolution values.
• Ability to view incomplete work orders from within the system.
• Enter meter readings and inspection results.
• Perform functions directly from the hierarchy.
• Create production work requests.