Asset Scheduling Management (ASM) is the process of controlling the utilization of assets in the production chain to provide maximum support for organizational goals. This process involves using software tools and a management framework to schedule assets, and activities carried out on them, in a way that maximizes their use, minimizes costs, and provides predictable and reliable production.
Done properly, scheduling maximizes production asset value, improves organizational responsiveness, and yields substantial economic benefits. Done poorly, the consequences can be severe: deferred production, poor customer service/staff satisfaction, and increased costs are among the possible outcomes.
ASM overcomes the limitations of current approaches to scheduling
Most existing scheduling tools are limited in capability, and are not designed for rapid, effective response to the constant changes and real world variances inherent in supply, demand, and daily operations. As a result, most asset-intensive organizations today rely on an ad hoc, labor-intensive, reactive scheduling process: a combination of people, paper, and tools, working under intense time pressure.
Actenum’s ASM solutions enhance the effectiveness of scheduling and overcome the limitations of traditional approaches. They accelerate the schedule creation process, harness the knowledge of expert users, and provide a real-time collaborative environment so that you can rapidly generate, assess, and score scheduling options, and drive the optimal response.
Make informed and reliable scheduling decisions, quickly
Actenum’s Asset Scheduling Management solutions enable you to make rapid and effective scheduling decisions in today’s complex and changing operational environments. Using Actenum you can build better-quality and more responsive schedules during daily operations, which leads to an increase in operating efficiency and profit.
When you need to schedule your valuable assets (for example, to assign drilling rigs to wells), or to schedule activities on them (such as preventive maintenance or turnarounds), our ASM solutions assist you by quickly and interactively generating practical, reliable schedules. Actenum gives you complete control over the results, allowing you to use your expertise to adjust and adapt the scheduling of tasks and activities to meet unexpected changes.
Actenum also enables you to generate multiple asset schedules that are linked to production targets and key operational metrics, so that you can compare and rank schedules to determine best alternatives. This allows you to maximize the utility of your assets in light of production goals.
Handle operational changes smoothly
When profits are put at risk as a result of operational disruptions (when the weather doesn't cooperate, a vital piece of equipment breaks down, or people don’t show up when they are expected) Actenum ASM solutions help you get back on track rapidly and reliably. Actenum is designed to deal with disruptions and changes, whether planned or unplanned, and to enable you to update schedules in real time, at the speed of business, rather than relying on slower, unreliable, manual approaches.
What Asset Scheduling Management can do for you
Actenum ASM enables you to align the use of key resources and assets with production goals and metrics, to achieve more predictable production operations, and to maximise revenue and customer satfisfaction.