Planning & Scheduling
Prepare, Execute, and Track Enterprise Asset Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
The Prometheus Planning & Scheduling module is a core part of the Prometheus Platform. Designed as a web-based, graphical planning and scheduling tool to assist maintenance teams with work order management, it has since expanded its suite of maintenance management software solutions to include preventive maintenance, inventory and materials management, and shutdown, turnaround, and outage scheduling (STO).
It's an out-of-the-box solution that streamlines and enhances maintenance processes with applications that fully integrate with your ERP, EAM, or CMMS (such as SAP, IBM Maximo, and Oracle). Organizations can maintain a single source of truth for data while providing complete mobility to its workforce. The user interface and experience of the Planning & Scheduling solution were designed with the end-user in mind. Browser-based features, intuitive functions, and the ability to use our solution on any device ensure that users can still maximize productivity on and off-site. Use Prometheus Planning & Scheduling to develop a more responsive and proactive maintenance strategy for your organization.
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Prometheus Planning & Scheduling for SAP provides organizations working within an SAP environment with the EAM maintenance software tools and resources needed to support planners and schedulers with work order planning and execution. It fully integrates with your system of record to keep a single source of truth for your data. A graphical scheduler, shortcuts to saved searches, quicker and more effective work packages, and planning enhancements maximize your planners’ and schedulers’ efficiency and effectiveness on the job, and leads to a stronger preventive maintenance program.
Prometheus Planning and Scheduling Software Features
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Dashboard
Easily standardize your process and configure the user interface to only include the buttons and forms pertinent to a specific role or user.
- Set permissions to view another user's dashboard in the event that a different technician or team needs to take on additional work.
- Create easy-to-use dashboards and workflows in a single screen that connects with SAP in real time.
- Switch between screen layouts easily.
- Save a default screen for each user.
- Interactive quick-lists allow you to easily view targeted data with the ability to drill down to individual records or reports.
- Gain graphical insight on metrics at a glance.
- Quickly link to any business application utilized.
Scheduler
Take control of your planned work with a user-friendly graphical scheduler.
- Drag and drop functionality with graphical Gantt chart scheduler.
- Leverage mass change functions.
- Utilize auto-leveler when viewing schedule.
- Real-time sync with SAP.
- Follow straightforward steps to assign tasks to a team or team members.
- Compare maintenance schedule with production availability to ensure both departments are aligned.
- Perform many other value-added scheduling functions against a schedule with live feedback for capacity consumption and tool/equipment usage.
Order Planner
Order planner moves you from the built-in graphical user interface in SAP to the web-based interface of the Prometheus Platform to view and plan work orders.
- Optimized and simplified user interface (UI) keeps only the most relevant pieces of information to the user when completing a job or task.
- Work order management system for planning, editing, and creating work orders provides full transparency into maintenance and operations workflows.
- Access to additional planning enhancements and tools to better support your maintenance strategy.
Work Package Manager
A work order system that quickly compiles all documents required to complete a work order for teams to access on or off-site.
- Select/deselect/auto-select documents to be printed in the work package.
- Ability to select a mobile delivery option.
- Include digital signatures and custom watermarks.
- Auto-collate documents and packages as one PDF or print job.
- Generated work packages individually or in bulk.
- Automatic consolidation of all documents eligible for print.
Order to Task List & BOM
Strengthen your work order process by building work templates, and keeping your equipment maintenance data up to date.
- Reduce free text spending.
- Copy planned work orders to task list templates.
- Retroactively update BOMs to maintain accuracy and consistency.
- Streamline and templatize work order information to provide an easy transfer of knowledge between workers.
Material Shopping Cart
Save time finding parts and reduce free text spending with advanced multi-word, multi-field search.
- Save time finding parts and reduce free text spending.
- View material or supply prices and availability before selecting.
- Retrieve material master numbers through an advanced multi-word, any-order search.
- Search for line items based on multiple criteria including long text descriptions and characteristics.
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
The IIoT engine connects your real-time sensor data with your ERP, EAM, or CMMS and makes the data actionable, enabling Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) as well as predictive maintenance tactics. You control what actions to take when an event occurs within your system.
- Integrated dashboards connect reliability and maintenance teams with asset insight.
- Two-way/Read and write integration keeps both systems up to date, and provides vital connections for advanced analytics.
- Escalating workflows make sure you never create a duplicate work order or object in your SAP, IBM Maximo, or Oracle system.
- Maintenance Status indicator prevents workflows from being initiated when the asset is down for planned maintenance.
- Templated CMMS Actions make it easy for a front-end user to manage your integration.
Available Planning & Scheduling SAP
Add-ons
Material Availability
Coordinator (MAC)
Bridge the gap between maintenance, procurement, and the warehouse by aggregating the status of all materials and automatically apply status updates.
Extended
Functionality (XF)
Take scheduling to the next level with simulation mode, real-time reports, work progression, and progress tracking.
Preventive Maintenance Manager (PMM)
Make better decisions around scheduling by migrating preventive maintenance plans and routine maintenance work orders onto one scheduling board.
Shutdowns, Turnarounds,
& Outages (STO)
Schedule shutdowns, turnarounds, outages, and other capital projects directly into SAP and onto one scheduling board using advanced scheduling add-ons.
Warranty
Tracker
Successful warranty claims contribute hard dollar savings directly to your bottom line.
Budget
Management
Take true control of your budget with a solution designed for asset and maintenance management.
Prometheus Planning & Scheduling for Maximo offers an out-of-the-box solution that streamlines the maintenance processes, manages the internal work order system, and increases the functionality of your Maximo work order system. The Planning and Scheduling software 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 six 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.
Prometheus Planning and Scheduling Software Features
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Prometheus Dashboard
Dashboard enables you to configure your Planning and Scheduling home screen to view high level details all at once, and quickly drill down into each.
- Configure widgets and save defaults by user for intuitive layouts.
- Link to queries, lists, and more in your Maximo system or 3rd party tools.
- Launch your Maximo directly from Dashboard.
- Gain access to an unlimited number of dashboards per user.
- View your web-based dashboard on any connected device even in the field.
- Preview metrics in a straightforward graphical layout and drill down if needed.
- Hover on items for more information, or click into individual modules to view work orders and reports.
Graphical Scheduler
This comprehensive planning and scheduling tool comes in an easy-to-use graphical format, and won't interfere with Maximo performance regardless of data set size.
- One-click scheduling, assigning, and filtering.
- Real-time sync with Maximo.
- 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.
PM Forecasting
View and manage Preventive Maintenance data while visualizing your PM Forecast in an easy-to-understand Gantt chart. Modify individual PM forecasted items to alleviate over/under allocation of resources before work orders are generated.
- Edit and mass edit PM data with ease.
- View PM forecasted items in a Gantt view, showing impacts on workforce for future timeframes.
- Adjust forecasted items easily with drag and drop, with the ability to regenerate PM forecasts.
- Calculate impacts of PMs with multiple timeline views (day, week, month, quarter, year).
Shift Updater
View labor, craft, and crew calendars and modify team availability with a single click, all in a simple graphical user interface. 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.
- Support your Maximo custom reason codes.
Job Plan Editor
The Job Plan Editor is a work order scheduling tool that provides a configurable, detailed view of Maximo Job Plan. It allows 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.
- Adjustments directly impact our Scheduler availability for daily/weekly scheduling, as well as PM Forecasts.
- 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.
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
The IIoT engine connects your real-time sensor data with your ERP, EAM, or CMMS and makes the data actionable, enabling Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) as well as predictive maintenance tactics. You control what actions to take when an event occurs within your system.
- Integrated dashboards connect reliability and maintenance teams with asset insight.
- Two-way/Read and write integration keeps both systems up to date, and provides vital connections for advanced analytics.
- Escalating workflows make sure you never create a duplicate work order or object in your SAP, Maximo, or Oracle system.
- Maintenance Status indicator prevents workflows from being initiated when the asset is down for planned maintenance.
- Templated CMMS actions make it easy for a front-end user to manage your integration.
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.
Prometheus Planning and Scheduling Software Features
Click the headlines below to learn more:
Dashboard
Easily standardize your process and configure the user interface to only include the buttons and forms pertinent to a specific role or user.
- Configure widgets and save defaults by user for intuitive layouts.
- Link to queries, lists, and more in your Oracle system or 3rd party tools.
- Launch to Oracle directly from Dashboard.
- Create easy-to-use dashboards and workflows in a single screen that connects with Oracle in real time.
- Interactive quick lists allow you to easily view targeted data, with the ability to drill down to individual records or reports.
- Gain graphical insight on metrics at a glance.
Scheduler
Take control of your planned work and backlog with a comprehensive planning and scheduling tool in an easy-to-use graphical format.
- One-click scheduling, assigning, and filtering.
- Real-time sync with Oracle.
- Intuitive interface to handle calendar exceptions and resource/instance schedules.
- Schedule and assign resources within the same screen.
- Ability to save unlimited number of layouts, regardless of number of users.
Shift Updater
View labor, craft, and crew calendars and modify team availability with a single click, all in a simple graphical user interface. Easily maintain and adjust calendars with maintenance and operation team schedules.
- Display labor lists based on crew, individual, or any other custom grouping within Oracle.
- Edit a technician's availability 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.
Key Benefits of Prometheus Planning and Scheduling
As a work order and scheduling software tool, Prometheus Planning and Scheduling guides, supports, and upholds your routine, preventive, and corrective maintenance strategy. Save time, reduce costly errors, and empower your team to work together to optimize and streamline the plant maintenance lifecycle with our dynamic planning and scheduling tool.
Integration with all solutions on the Platform
Data in this module not only integrates with an organization's system of truth, but also with the other modules on the Prometheus Platform, ensuring data is accessible and accurate.
Maximize resource utilization and wrench time
Maximize resource utilization and wrench time to increase overall worker productivity in the field, and reduce time spent on manual, repetitive tasks.
Reduce work package
compilation and printing time
Technicians have direct access to work packages in the system, which cuts down or eliminates the need for paper.
Graphically view and
schedule work order data
User-friendly Gantt chart to schedule, adjust, update, and review work orders, with the ability to easily drag and drop.
Increase schedule and
PM compliance
Reduce number of work orders moving into your preventive maintenance backlog by prioritizing schedules or resources to complete scheduled orders on time.
Increase schedule
alignment and adoption
Improve compliance and reduce preventive maintenance (PM) backlog and break-in work by optimizing the maintenance schedule by priority and due dates.
Intuitive user interface and experience
with modern web design
Our modern and intuitive interface means less training is required to learn a new solution.
Real-time updates from
system of record
Accurate, real-time updates to and from an organization's system of record ensure data integrity and accuracy, cutting back on the potential for costly or hazardous mistakes.
Reduce reactive work and
increase preventive work
Quickly prioritize assets in most need of critical repair; track and monitor equipment history to better assess frequency of preventive maintenance work for non-critical assets.
Prometheus Planning and Scheduling FAQs:
The benefits of the Prometheus Planning and Scheduling module include:
- Streamlined Maintenance Processes: It enhances maintenance processes through a user-friendly, web-based interface that integrates with ERP, EAM, or CMMS systems.
- Increased Productivity: Provides a modern, intuitive user interface with browser-based features and functions accessible on any device, maximizing productivity on and off-site.
- Enhanced Preventive Maintenance: Helps develop a more responsive and proactive maintenance strategy.
- Single Source of Truth: Maintains data integrity by integrating with the organization’s system of record.
- Mobility: Ensures complete mobility for the workforce.
Prometheus Planning and Scheduling includes:
- Preventive Maintenance: Scheduling and managing routine maintenance tasks.
- Inventory and Materials Management: Streamlining the management of inventory and materials required for maintenance tasks.
- Shutdown, Turnaround, and Outage Scheduling (STO): Managing and scheduling maintenance during shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages.
- Graphical Scheduler: Easily schedule maintenance work orders in a flexible Gantt chart view.
- Order Planner: Plan work orders in a simplified user interface.
- Work Package Manager: Compile documents related to work orders to streamline access for teams.
- Warranty Tracker: Manage warranty claims effectively to save on costs.
- Budget Management: Manage your asset management budget more easily.
Prometheus Planning and Scheduling pairs well with:
- SAP
- Oracle
- IBM Maximo
Prometheus Planning and Scheduling integrates with IBM Maximo to enable you to:
- Streamline Maintenance Processes: Improve every stage of the maintenance workflow with an out-of-the-box solution.
- Maintain a Single Source of Truth: Keep data consistent within IBM Maximo.
- Enhance Visibility: Manage daily and weekly routine or preventive maintenance, resource availability, job plan refinement, time capture, and shutdowns, turnarounds, or outages.
Prometheus Planning and Scheduling integrates with Oracle to allow you to:
- Focus on Asset-Centric Planning: Prioritize asset criticality, urgency, and preventive maintenance schedule compliance.
- Ensure a Single Source of Truth: Seamlessly integrate into the Oracle system to keep data in your core ERP.
- Leverage User-Friendly Features: Utilize drag-and-drop, snap-to-grid, multi-select, and dynamic filtering tools to enhance user experience and adoption.
The available add-ons for Prometheus Planning and Scheduling include:
- Material Availability Coordinator (MAC)
- Extended Functionality (XF)
- Preventive Maintenance Manager (PMM)
- Shutdowns, Turnarounds, & Outages (STO)
- Warranty Tracker
- Budget Management
The key benefits of leveraging Prometheus Group's integrated planning and scheduling tool include:
- Integration With the Prometheus Platform: Ensures data accuracy and accessibility across modules.
- Maximized Resource Utilization: Increases worker productivity by reducing manual, repetitive tasks.
- Reduced Work Package Compilation Time: Technicians have direct access to work packages in the system.
- Graphical Work Order Scheduling: User-friendly Gantt chart for scheduling and adjusting work orders.
- Increased Schedule and PM Compliance: Prioritizes schedules to complete orders on time, reducing preventive maintenance backlog.
- Intuitive User Interface: Modern design reduces the need for extensive training.
- Real-Time Updates: Ensures data integrity and accuracy with real-time updates from the system of record.
- Reduce Reactive Work: Prioritizes assets in need of critical repair, improving preventive maintenance.
Explore the Prometheus Planning & Scheduling module
Save time, reduce costly errors, and empower your team to work together to optimize and streamline the plant maintenance lifecycle with our dynamic planning and scheduling tool.