Your frontline workforce is one of your most valuable and sought-after assets. The skilled labor shortage is projected to reach 2.1 million by the end of 2030, and companies like Amazon are offering competitive employment opportunities that make skilled labor even more in demand. Now more than ever, manufacturers are feeling pressure to maximize their teams’ productivity with limited budgets and resources.
We’ve talked about the importance of digital transformation and how to use technology to increase productivity and accelerate your long-term business strategy. Thankfully, investing in the right technology also can significantly reduce the limitations caused by labor shortages. Planning and scheduling solutions can lower the frequency and cost of unplanned overtime, optimize existing resources, reduce administrative work, and improve work order compliance, all while extending the value of your assets.
The power to work smarter, not harder
When it comes to planning and scheduling work, maintenance managers are often stuck between a rock and a hard place. Many are juggling spreadsheets, calendars, even pencil and paper to plan and balance the workload. Others try to simplify this with new tools, but end up using a bolt-on solution that's siloed from the rest of their maintenance workflows, creating even more complexity and inefficiency.
To help maintenance managers and planners across industry-leading enterprises simplify their workload scheduling and improve efficiency, productivity, and frontline safety, MaintainX has released Resource Planning.
With Resource Planning from MaintainX, you can optimize your resources, balance workloads, and get real-time labor insights for each team member–all on one screen. Unlike other solutions, Resource Planning integrates seamlessly into your maintenance management workflows, creating a streamlined connection between your data, assets, and teams.
Customers saved an average of 10-15 hours per week using Resource Planning.
Like the rest of MaintainX, Resource Planning is built for ease of use, so your team can quickly get up to speed and start seeing the results in the first week of using the feature. In fact, our earliest beta customers have already saved an average of 10-15 hours of admin time a week since they started using Resource Planning.
Resource Planning: Optimize your resources to get more done
Resource Planning gives maintenance managers and planners the flexibility to see, assign, and adjust work orders in real time, all in one easy-to-use planner view.
By providing full control and visibility into your team’s workload and capacity, Resource Planning helps you reduce unplanned overtime, minimize missed work and downtime, and understand capacity and resource constraints to better plan.
With Resource Planning, you can:
- Optimize existing resources: See the full picture of your team’s workload and capacity to quickly prioritize, assign, and balance work.
- Improve productivity: Don’t miss or skip work because technicians are overloaded. Streamline reactive maintenance from request to completion and free up time for strategic maintenance planning.
- Make data-driven decisions: Access real-time labor insights and reporting to understand capacity and better allocate resources or request headcount.
"Resource Planning has everything I need on one screen, saving me time and making it easy to know when to reprioritize work, address performance issues, or make a case for more headcount." – Michael Herd, Maintenance and Reliability Supervisor, Eurokera
All the features, none of the complexity
Your maintenance managers are working tirelessly to hit productivity targets while minimizing the risk and cost of the unexpected. The last thing they need is another tool that’s separate from the rest of their maintenance workflows, takes days to implement, or is too complex to be useful.
That’s why we built Resource Planning to have everything you need, without slowing you down. It’s fully integrated in MaintainX, allowing you to boost your productivity while reducing admin time by managing and planning your maintenance workload all in one place.
Monitor and balance your team’s workload in one view
Say goodbye to juggling multiple spreadsheets and calendars. Get the complete picture of your team’s workload and capacity to see, prioritize, and assign work orders, and make real-time adjustments on one screen.
How it works
On just one dashboard, you can view all your tech’s daily capacity and utilization, unplanned work orders by status and priority, and customizable work order and schedule views.
Adjust and re-prioritize work as needs change
Don’t let reactive work run your floor. Quickly adapt to unplanned work and changing priorities without overloading your techs or missing requests. Easily reassign work orders to ensure the right techs are doing the right work.
How it works
Select work orders to adjust the estimated time to completion, assign to new or multiple techs, add more details as information changes, and adjust capacity data in the same dashboard view.
Unlock insights for more strategic planning
Plan better today to set your team up for success in the future. Understand your team’s utilization by technician, identify bottlenecks, and uncover insights to help your business make a case for more headcount or resources.
How it works
Immediately see when your team or tech is reaching or over capacity, track work order completion, time vs. cost analysis, and more.
Getting started with MaintainX
Operational excellence starts with better planning. With MaintainX’s Resource Planning, you have the control and visibility you need to eliminate unplanned overtime, reduce missed work and downtime, and understand the constraints and opportunities available to make informed resource decisions.
Ready to get started? Book a demo or create your free account today!
Already a MaintainX customer?
Resource Planning is available to all MaintainX customers on our enterprise plan. Read how to access Resource Planning in the Support Articles, or reach out to your account team for details.
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Simone Roscitt
Simone Roscitt is a Product Marketing Manager at MaintainX, with a background in customer experience and data management and nearly 10 years of product-led SaaS experience. Simone has helped global enterprises maximize the use of their data to improve productivity, efficiency, and customer acquisition.
