Actenum MPS (Maintenance and Production Scheduler) is the perfect solution for both slow loop planning sessions and fast loop re-evaluations. This comprehensive scheduling solution is a powerful collaboration tool that empowers maintenance and production managers to:

• Know how maintenance activities are going to impact production,
• Guarantee that important maintenance procedures are always done on time,
• Improve responsiveness to unanticipated disruptions, equipment failures, or changes to production demand,
• Minimize or even eliminate the risk of machine failures and missed production targets,
• Boost their ability to meet production targets, and
• Improve overall operational effectiveness.

MPS gives maintenance and production managers the power to work collaboratively to develop a schedule that simultaneously evaluates both required production output and essential maintenance activities to produce a plan that:

• Shows expected production output by specific time period.
• Lists detailed maintenance activities and frequencies.
• Measures and displays the risk of missing targets.
• Evaluates and displays potential conflicts.
• Analyzes and displays other user-definable key performance indicators (KPI’s), such as equipment availability or utilization.

Actenum MPS software automatically calculates and optimizes both the maintenance and production schedules to deliver the production output required. It also considers user-defined constraints. For example, management can establish a threshold for the risk they are willing to accept for missing a production target or for having a piece of equipment fail. MPS will analyze the planned maintenance and production schedules, and automatically calculate and display the risk of missing the target, or the risk of a device failing. If the calculated risk exceeds the acceptable threshold, MPS will automatically and continuously make adjustments to the maintenance and production schedules until an acceptable level of risk is attained. Of course, the experience and knowledge of the managers in charge of the operations cannot be discounted. So, smart managers will use the MPS capabilities to augment their decision-making in a “two expert approach”. They can and should adjust and tweak the schedules until they are satisfied with the results. MPS allows and even encourages using a simple “drag and drop” to add, move, or change planned maintenance events. All the while, the impact of such changes on the production target and other KPI’s is automatically calculated and displayed for management consideration and action.

Bottom Line

While the challenge of creating ideal maintenance and production schedules is common in asset intensive industries, an ideal solution is now available with Actenum MPS (Maintenance and Production Scheduler).