1. 16/12/2015 BPD Zenith UK | Canada | USA | Australia | New Zealand
Planning & Scheduling
Presentation
Presented by
Mark Michael – BDM/Sales Manager
Nov 2015
2. Company Overview
– BPD Zenith is a global full service provider of Maximo Asset Management solutions
– Head Office in Carlisle (UK) with Offices in Aberdeen (UK), Houston (USA), Calgary
(Canada), Melbourne (Australia) and New Zealand
• Currently over 90 staff
• Are an Award wining IBM Maximo
Premier Business Partner
• Only Gold Accredited Partner in the Oil
& Gas industry
• Offer Maximo on premise and
MaxiCloud off premise solutions and
support options
• Are driving business platforms for future
smarter operations within our Clients
3. Recent Awards
2015 IBM Awards
• Beacon Award for innovation –
Manifest Solution – awarded
March 2015
• Global Business Partner of the
Year for Asset Management –
Awarded October 2015
Interconnect 2015
Insights 2015
4. Maximo - Product Offering Extension
• Maximo Customisations
– Email listener for PO & PR
– Authorisations split by value and OPEX or CAPEX
– Manifest solution
• Maximo Implementation Framework
– Complete documentation pack
• Extension of BI packs in Cognos
– AM Focus
– Master data and process compliance
• Maxicloud – Fully Managed solution
– Suites business of all sizes.
– Removes the support and hardware burden.
– Upgrades and patches included.
– Rapid instal – can be done within 4 weeks for industry solutions
5. Why Schedule?
• Increase Productivity
– Reduce Waste - Clients typically see ~10% increase in
trades utilisation after implementation by eliminate
cherry picking – ROI in months
– More time to deal with Backlog
• Better labour requirement forecasting
– Reduction in contractor numbers
– Identify conflicting jobs requiring the same resources
6. Why Schedule?
• Consistent process
• Reduce paper
• Changes In org structure
• Too may WO’s for any
person to make sense of
• Remove inefficiencies
• Understand the dynamic
nature when changes are
made.
• Help the organisation
move towards less reactive
maintenance
8. How to Schedule
1. Identify available time
– Understand Trade availability
2. Prioritise
– Most critical/essential 1st
3. Look at work grouped by
– Site
– Location
– Supervisor
– Work type
– Status
4. Allow for contingency
– Reduce this over time
5. Its an iterative process.
10. Product Comparison
Maximo Scheduler
• Embedded into Maximo
• In the same screen
• Only need to buy licenses for the
Planners/Schedulers
• Optimisation tool
• SQL builder/Asset/location
availability
• May need additional server power
• Some technical items to deal with
(simple installation (half day),
– Java versions to be checked to view
charts, likely increase memory of your
Database and Application servers,
some minor tweaks –Xmx1024m,
Update statistics, clear browser cache,
etc)
Akwire Solution
• Client Server architecture
• Utilise your local system resources,
so very quick to process data
• Easy to install
• Available on V6, V7, V7.5 and V7.6
• Works on all common browsers
• Easier calendar changes – ctrl V
11. Data Requirements
• Minimum is
– Just need WO’s – default values set at 1hr for each WO if not present
• To use full functionality you will need:-
– Calendars
– Shifts
– Crafts
– Labour (with Calendars/Shifts applied)
– Properly populated Job Plans
– Properly populated PM records
– Work Orders
Depending on functionality you utilize
– Costs
– GIS info
– Special tools
• Any other the Scheduling products will show your data visually – warts and all !!
• Our advice – spend some time cleaning up your data prior to putting scheduling in place, or
better still, keep it up to date regularly.
15. Maximo Scheduler
• Create Schedules
1. How many records you want to view – it
can’t be everything
2. Add a Shift & Calendar
3. Create Queries using GUI
1. APPR WO’s
2. Craft
3. etc
16. Maximo Scheduler
• Ghantt chart view
Moving Records
1. Drag to a new date
2. Right click on work
record
3. Adjust dates in table
4. Group work
If outside constraints then
dashed line appears
22. More Information
• Recent Webinar Series
• Maximo Scheduler Webinar Recording: Part 1
https://ibm.biz/BdHz3v
• Maximo Scheduler Webinar Recording: Part 2
https://ibm.biz/BdHfCj
• Maximo Scheduler Webinar Recording: Part 3 – due 20th Nov
• Scheduler Wiki
24. Akwire vScheduler
• Functionally Rich including:
– One Click Assignment
– Multi-Assigment
– Mass Move / Realignment
– Add more in here
Editor's Notes
1. Many organisations have a management drive to reduce the number of tools within an organisation
It is important to note that Scheduler has come along way since early 2010.
The new Graphical Engine in the latest Java technologies ensure better performance.
The various colours represent different status of work