3. Enable planners and schedulers with technology
If you think you can pull off a sophisticated maintenance planning and scheduling operation with outdated or manual tools, you might want to reevaluate. It’s a complex, ongoing initiative, and one that requires your team to keep track of copious amounts of information.
Any one planner, for example, might plan the work of 20 technicians over the course of a week, with each working 40 hours per week. That’s 800 hours of work the planner must account for, which gets complicated pretty quickly when you consider job descriptions, estimated times, necessary skills, required tools, and more. The scheduler, too, must use all those details to determine the right person for the right job based on availability, location, qualification, preferences, and other key information.
As you build out your maintenance planning and scheduling program, make sure you’re empowering your team with technology that makes their jobs easier. Planned maintenance software (like CMMS tools, ERP software, and EAM systems) are a great place to start, but they’re not enough to ensure sustainable success.
Your team also needs technology that improves workforce visibility, supports multi-layered workflows, and handles the complexities of their scheduling requirements. Intelligent scheduling software can bring everything together in one centralized place, for a truly integrated approach to maintenance planning and scheduling.
The right scheduling tool can automatically match the right technician to the right job, automate the scheduling process, optimize worker routes, enable data collection in the field, and take the guesswork out of resource utilization. Make sure the software you choose puts all your valuable data (from all of your existing critical systems) to work for your team and offers meaningful, data-backed insights that drive operational improvements.
Robust Software for Successful Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Consistently high quality maintenance requires both effective planning and scheduling, but implementing a successful strategy is often cumbersome. This is particularly true for organizations that lack the proper tools and real-time data for support.
Skedulo’s scheduling software for energy and utilities companies turns maintenance planning and scheduling into your company’s competitive advantage. With tools for automated scheduling, intelligent job matching, efficient resource utilization, route optimization, field data collection, and more, Skedulo can help your team eliminate wasted time and resources, reduce the risk of equipment failure, and improve client relations.
Learn more about how Skedulo can transform energy and utilities workforce management, or book a demo today.
