Graphical Scheduling application

You use the Graphical Scheduling application to manage and schedule work and resources at your organization. The schedules you create are based on work record, asset, or location hierarchy. You can view the schedules in the graphical view to manage them visually.

You can identify possible scheduling conflicts that might arise from multiple concurrent work orders that need the same resources. You can move work records in bulk. For example, you can reschedule all unfinished work from the previous week to the next week. You can also match resources to requirements so that you can address exceptions rather than manually schedule all assignments.

After you create a work schedule, you can view the schedule in a graphical view. At a glance, you can see all the work in the schedule, and the resource requirements for that work. You can reschedule work so that resources are not overloaded or underutilized, and compare various work schedules by creating different scenarios. You can change the schedule with the drag-and-drop capability of the graphical view, and save the changes to the Maximo® database.

The Graphical Scheduling application manages constraints to ensure that your work is scheduled properly. For example, you can use task-precedence constraints to specify that some work (such as painting a wall) cannot be started until other work (sanding the wall) is complete. Similarly, you can use the date constraint feature to ensure that tasks that are scheduled to start on a certain date do not supersede tasks that are scheduled to start on an earlier date. Critical path methodology (CPM) can be used to track these dependencies while you make schedule changes, and recalculate the schedule accordingly.