Prometheus Planning and Scheduling for Maximo (Formerly AKWIRE)

The Prometheus platform’s Planning & Scheduling module provides web-based planning and scheduling solutions for maintenance management, as well as the ability to expand to preventive maintenance management, material management, and STOs (shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages). It is an out-of-the-box solution that streamlines and enhances maintenance processes with applications that fully integrate with your ERP, EAM, or CMMS solution (such as SAP, Oracle, IBM Maximo, and more), keeping a single source of truth for your data.

The user interaction and user experience of Planning & Scheduling were designed with the end-user in mind. Browser-based features, intuitive functions, and the ability to use our solution on any device ensures that users can use Planning & Scheduling effectively with minimal training in the solution itself and no training in the actual ERP, EAM, or CMMS system. The products within the Planning & Scheduling module of the Prometheus Platform maximize your Planners’ and Schedulers’ efficiency on the job and lead to a more proactive maintenance program.

vScheduler

Comprehensive planning and scheduling in an easy to use graphical format. vScheduler will not interfere with Maximo performance regardless of the size of the data sets you’re working with.

One-click scheduling, assigning and filtering. It doesn't get simpler
Intuitive interface to handle calendar exceptions and shift/crew schedules
Schedule and assign resources within the same screen
Forecast PMs for years into the future so you can preview and plan for your PM workload well in advance
Ability to save as many layouts as needed per person

vCalendar

Provides a simple GUI that allows you to view labor, craft, and crew calendars and modify their availability with a single click. Simplify the process of scheduling with calendars that can be easily maintained

Display your labor list based on crew, person group, or any custom grouping you may have in Maximo
Edit a technician's shift, calendar, supervisor, crew, availability ratio and more from one easy to use interface
See how changes in resource availability, such as vacation and training, will affect the scheduling of Work Orders that haven't been generated yet
Simultaneously enter exceptions for multiple individuals and for multiple days or weeks
Supports your Maximo custom reason codes

vJobPlan

Provides a configurable, detailed view of your Maximo Job Plans, allowing you to quickly determine where duration and timing changes would increase the accuracy of your scheduling activities.

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

vTimeSheet

Provides a side-by-side view of Planned hours vs. Actual hours; workers only need to modify records where deviations exist.

Quickly navigate to a desired date - designed for minimal clicks
View and enter time by crew, person group, craft, or any other grouping in an intuitive calendar view
View scheduled (assigned) vs. actual hours
View daily total hours by labor or by work order
Change work order status
Approve time for your workforce
Powerful sorting and filtering of your data

What Planning & Scheduling Experts Say

Jeremy Vossen

DTE Energy

Facilities Supervisor

"I was shocked at the ease. Everything that he was showing us, scheduling-wise, it was so easy.I told them what takes me hours, with this, I could do in no time. And it all writes back to Maximo.The other programs that we were using in the past… nothing wrote back to Maximo so you would change things but it wouldn’t get back to Maximo."

Shauna Nevel

Penn State University

Maximo Business Analyst

"The key to reduce our unplanned/emerging work and reduce maintenance costs is getting people on board with using AKWIRE visual suite for Maximo [now part of Prometheus Planning & Scheduling], by introducing more groups to AKWIRE [Prometheus] and everything that it can do for us."

Doc Palmer

Author, McGraw-Hill Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook

Richard Palmer & Associates

"The best thing about Solufy [now part of Prometheus Planning & Scheduling] is they understand planning and scheduling from a maintenance perspective rather than an IT perspective. All too often, IT people think that if you plan a job for five hours, it should take five hours. IT-centric geared CMMS software is designed around perfect job plans and perfect schedules that are just not real life."

Dustin Dunaway

Oxy Permian Resources

Automation & Electrical Manager

"AKWIRE [now part of Prometheus Planning & Scheduling] helped to reduce our average TTR (Time To Repair) from 27 days to 7 days over a three-month implementation period equating to approximately $25M in savings (bringing on lost production)."

Jason Luke

Kinder Morgan

Consultant, Application SR IT

"I liked vScheduler over alternatives because the processing happens on a Citrix server vs utilizing CPU on the Maximo application servers. I had heard and seen demos in the past that showed alternative solutions using a lot to process all this data. So to have it off loaded onto a different server, seemed like a better technical solution."