Manage planned maintenance more effectively

For facility managers nothing is more important than being able to quickly organize, balance and schedule planned maintenance in one centralized location. The Planon solution gives managers the tools they need to manage planned maintenance, create schedules and budget and balance work load more efficiently. In addition, using Planon’s comprehensive reporting and forecast tools, managers can create more efficient scheduling that reduce costs and improve efficiencies: By switching to preventative from reactive maintenance plans you can cut your Operations and Maintenance costs by 10% to 15%.

Many organizations lose sight of mutual, contractual and service level (SLA) commitments. With Planon, organizations gain visibility and tracking for all internal and external contracts, monitoring information such as notice periods, commercial terms and conditions, and service levels. In addition, automatic warnings are created for contract extension, termination, or contract reviews within any given period.

Planon gives you the tools required to gain control of contracts, allowing periodic routine asset related work regimes and supporting activities to be generated automatically as work orders for both service providers and direct labor organizations.

Agreed upon contract costs can be easily compared with the actual costs of services and materials supplied, ensuring effective contract monitoring and control. In addition, many heath care companies use Planon to manage the maintenance of medical instruments within hospital and lab environments.

The Planon solution also enables dynamic on-screen planning of the planned maintenance activities defined by the contract. Clear on-screen weekly calendar plans are displayed according to a wide variety of user selected view options for example, by asset, by location, by service provider or by trade/skill. For each week shown in the plan, the sum of labor hours and labor and material costs are displayed and individual activities can be moved (‘drag and drop’), suspended or cancelled and entire activity sequences can be shifted, according to your load balancing requirements. If required, additional ad-hoc activities can be added as well.

Once a forward plan has been finalized, work orders for the required number of weeks forward can be generated automatically within the solution and then issued to your FM team and Service providers accordingly. The status of previously issued work orders, for example, whether in progress or completed, is maintained in the graphical planning view so that you always have a complete picture of both forward and previously issued planned maintenance work order activity.