Inspiration workshop AI in asset management: what are your use cases?
Where are the peaks in your installation and maintenance work? Where do most ad-hoc projects come from? And do you have enough technicians with the right qualifications in-house? Insightful dashboards help optimize the planning and deployment of your service and maintenance staff. How does that work? In this blog, four examples of visual asset management reporting, with IBM Maximo and IBM Maximo Scheduler.
1. Quickly see where the work is on the map
How is the work of your technicians distributed across different locations in the coming period? When you move your mouse over the map in the dashboard, the number of days assigned to a country, region or location this year appears. If you want to know more, click through to the underlying information. For example, how does the number of days translate in percentage terms? And what sub-locations, customers or types of assets are involved? You can easily filter on all these aspects. This way you can quickly see what is happening at which location and where your maintenance or service activities are concentrated.
2. Direct insight into the amount of work
What work has already been done and what still needs to be done? A bar chart lets you see the situation at a glance per year or other desired time period. Here too, you can zoom in on detailed information, both in absolute figures and in percentages. For example, how many days per customer or per project have already been performed and how many days are still open? You know exactly where and how many technicians you still need to carry out the planned maintenance or service work.
3. Planned versus ad-hoc work sharply in sight
4. Overview of required and available skills
How many people are trained to perform certain maintenance or service work on a machine or installation? For one job you may need qualified electrical engineers, for the other technicians who are trained in mechanics or who have the necessary software knowledge. A bar chart gives you insight into the skills of your technicians, both at this moment and in the past. With a few mouse clicks you can bring details into view. Where are the skill shortages geographically, for example? Are you missing people with the right skills at senior, medior or junior level? And how is the situation developing over time? By making skill shortages transparent in this way, you can specifically retrain or recruit technicians.
Plan, Do, Check, Act (PCDA)
The four dashboards help your planning department shape the PDCA cycle that is so important for your maintenance and service activities:
Plan – Can we plan on time, are there not too many ad-hoc work orders?
Do – How many projects are planned and where are they?
Check – Are we making optimal use of our technicians and skills?
Act – Are more technicians needed and do they need to be trained further?
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Want to know more about the possibilities of dashboarding with IBM Maximo? Please contact Stefan Ferdinandus, via +(0)6 15 65 99 47 or s.ferdinandus@gemba.nl.