Work Packaging with Maximo ACM for Transportation Assets

The Challenge: Planning packages of work can provide a number of challenges, particularly for transportation type assets where the dynamic nature of the assets operations means that the asset may not be where it is supposed to be!! Maintenance facilities are resourced based on carrying out a range of maintenance tasks, they know that for a given time period they will be maintaining an asset from the fleet (or a third party client) but not necessarily which specific asset it will be, to a certain extent they do not care which asset it will be.  Maximo provides strong capability for defining the preventive maintenance (PM) program and the generation of the associated work orders, however, there is a challenge in deciding when to generate the work orders if there is a risk that the asset may not be available for maintenance when planned and an alternative asset will be allocated for maintenance in its place, this is a typical scenario in both rail and aviation. 

 

The Solution:  Maximo Asset Configuration Manager (ACM) has developed capability for 'work packaging' as part of the Maintenance Planning (CM) application, this enables planners to create packages of work by viewing all forthcoming PMs and filtering by asset and 'units to go' so that any number of PM records can be selected for inclusion into a Work Package that is specific to an aircraft, rail vehicle etc.

 

Once the PM's have been selected they are added to the Work Package.  At this point the planner can view 'work package summary', this details the total number of events and the combined resource requirements so that the planner can review if the total package of work is appropriate for the planned maintenance period and add, remove or retain the current selection.