Industry Solutions

CiM Maintenance has made a solid commitment and contribution to IBM’s A Smarter Planet direction by engineering our Industry Solutions for a Smarter Planet to increase the visibility of actions, features and logic for smarter IBM Maximo applications.

Cim_smartplanetThe Visual Planner Suite truncates the work planning & scheduling effort essentially eliminating omissions, duplication and redundancy resulting in substantial reduction of computation processing and data storage energy consumption. Smarter solutions means high integrity, lean and safer decision making – enabling human, fuel and electrical energy to be repurposed resulting in operational excellence, cost avoidance and real energy expense savings.

Smart solutions are those that perform the way people act within their workplace.

Smart solutions simplify, automate and do more with less energy.

Smart solutions provide visibility to people, places and assets in their operating context.

CiM Maintenance visual solutions are smart solutions.

  1. Visualizing Work in its Operational Context
  2. Repeatable Success with Smart Schedules
  3. Process Automation with Smart Resource Leveling
  4. Visualizing Availability with Smart Calendars
  5. Streamlining Service Management with Visual Appointments

Visualizing Work in its Operational Context

Consistent with the engineering concept that you cannot improve what you cannot measure, CiM Maintenance understands that you cannot change what you cannot see. So we dedicated our knowledge, our vision and our resources to create embedded Maximo applications that are highly visual and smart.
Akin to ‘heads-up windscreen displays’ used in aerospace the Visual Planner Suite transforms enterprise asset data into high integrity operational information displayed in bright and clear calendar views enabling Planners, Scheduler and Supervisors to work smarter. With this unobstructed view they are able to see and work with their work orders in operating context with simple mouse click and drag and drop features.

Repeatable success with Smart Schedules

Using the Schedule Manager in Visual Scheduler application, Schedulers/ Supervisors can create weekly schedules aligning operational priorities, maintenance priorities and work order backlog to asset availability. Often you will find a schedule that just works – a Smart Schedule, one that is harmonic and productive. So how do we repeat that successful scenario?  The Schedule Manager feature allows for smarter schedule scenarios to be created, peer reviewed, shared and safely secured within Maximo database.  This feature lends itself to root cause analysis where schedule is a factor. Using Smart Schedules results in minutes saved during each planning cycle equating to person/hours of human effort per week and kilowatts of electrical energy per month.

Process Automation with Smart Resource Leveling

Using the Smart Resource Leveling feature takes the guess work out of planning & scheduling enabling Operations and Maintenance Managers to emulate and repeat successful planning and scheduling tactics. This rules-based feature allows for the definition, automation, execution and governance of decision measures like priority, status, availability and workload to automatically plan, schedule and assign work. The trusted automation of the planning and scheduling process has significant time, cost and energy saving benefits. Try measuring schedule compliance by calculating the human energy and kilowatts consumed per schedule breaker – now multiple these by escalating energy costs. Something worth doing is worth doing smarter – using  the Visual Planner Suite.

Visualizing Availability with Smart Calendars

We created Smart Calendars as a response to the need to visualize the availability of people, places and asset within a dynamic world. Overlaying these transparent layers of Labor, Location and Asset Calendar provides the Operations and Maintenance Teams with near-real time multi-dimensional view of their world.   Smart Calendars feed the Smart Manager and Smart Resource Leveling applications with all the information needed to calculate, emulate and deploy a Smart Schedule.

  • Smart Labor Calendars provides ‘heads-up’ display of people calendars that handle the changes in crew, craft, labor availability within the reality of the human dynamic. When people get sick, book vacation, take training and change work cycles, the Smart Labor Calendars allow Managers / Supervisors to quickly change labor status and availability with a few simple clicks.
  • Smart Location Calendars provided a quick and simple view of the availability of physical plant and work assets locations. This shortens the preparation time for shutdown / turnaround planning and gives Operations Managers method to calendar their requirements within the work management system.
  • Smart Asset Calendars produces a clear calendar view for revenue generating asset / work equipment availability that can be managed manually of integrated to external process systems (PLC, SCADA) for added process automation.

Streamlining Service Management with Visual Appointment Bookings

Customer Service coordinators are on the frontline to provided quick and quality services to customers who are expecting them to be ‘smart’ – know everything about their needs and to act with a sense of urgency. Visual Appointment Bookings leverages Smarts Calendars to bring together all the customer specific information they need to book an appointment or reservation that is right the first time.  Smarter Service Management means high integrity, error free and immediate decision making. Smart Appointment Bookings are those that get the customer the right product or service at the right time the first time. Eliminating errors and omissions reduces wasted time, wasted expense and enables human, fuel and electrical energy to be repurposed resulting in operational excellence, cost avoidance and real energy expense savings. Smart Service Management is easily achieved with Visual Appointment Bookings.