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PLANNING OPTIMIZER

Simplify, Standardize & Optimize Maintenance Planning. 

Planning Optimizer® is maintenance planning software that helps organizations standardize planning workflows, improve maintenance backlog visibility, build reusable job plan libraries, plan resources, and prepare execution-ready maintenance work.

Standardized Job Planning

Reusable Job Plan Libraries

Backlog & Workflow Visibility

Resource Planning

 Is Your Maintenance Planning Holding You Back?

 When planning lacks visibility, consistency, and structure, maintenance execution suffers. These common challenges can lead to wasted planner time, delayed work, poor resource utilization, and lower workforce productivity.

 Limited Backlog Visibility 

Work status isn’t clear
 
Your team struggles to identify what is planned, unplanned, critical, or ready for execution. 

Repetitive Planning 

The same work gets rebuilt
Planners spend valuable time recreating jobs instead of reusing proven plans.

 Poor Work Readiness 

 Jobs aren’t execution-ready
Missing parts, tools, procedures, or estimates create delays once work begins. 

 Inconsistent Planning

 Planning varies across teams
Different approaches lead to inconsistent job quality and work readiness.

Lost Technician Feedback

 Field knowledge gets lost
Execution feedback isn’t captured and used to improve future job plans. 

Unclear Resource Requirements

 Resource needs are uncertain
Teams struggle to forecast the labor, time, and resources upcoming work requires.

What is Planning Optimizer?

Planning Optimizer® (formerly PMO200) is a maintenance planning solution built by planners, for planners. It helps teams transform maintenance requirements into standardized, execution-ready job plans. It creates one structured environment for preparing work, managing planning workflows, tracking backlog, developing reusable job plans, estimating resource requirements, and capturing feedback from execution. Instead of planning knowledge remaining in spreadsheets, individual files, or the experience of individual planners, Planning Optimizer helps organizations create a centralized source of maintenance planning knowledge.

The result is a more standardized, transparent, and scalable planning process.

How Planning Optimizer Works

 Planning Optimizer® creates a structured workflow that moves maintenance work from identification and planning through preparation and execution. By capturing technician feedback and reusing proven job plans, teams can continuously improve work quality, increase planning efficiency, and drive better maintenance execution. 
 Planning Optimizer follows a continuous six-step maintenance planning workflow: Identify, Plan, Prepare, Execute, Capture Feedback, and Improve & Reuse.

1. IDENTIFY & PRIORITIZE

 Bring maintenance work into a visible planning workflow and understand what requires attention. 




2. PLAN

Define job scope, labor, materials, tools, safety requirements, procedures, estimates, and other execution requirements.




3. PREPARE

 Confirm work readiness, identify resource requirements, and develop reusable job plans and work packages. 

4. EXECUTE

Provide technicians with properly prepared work and greater clarity around what needs to be completed.





5. CAPTURE FEEDBACK

 Collect execution feedback, actual work information, and lessons learned from the field. 






6. IMPROVE & REUSE

 Update job plans and return proven work to the centralized library so future planning becomes faster and more accurate. 

 

 Why Planning Optimizer Matters

Maintenance planning directly affects how efficiently work is executed. Poorly prepared work can leave technicians waiting for materials, searching for information, locating tools, or determining job requirements after execution has already started.
Planning Optimizer helps organizations move from reactive and inconsistent work preparation toward a repeatable planning process.

 Increase Planning Productivity

Give planners quick access to proven job plans and previous work, reducing the time spent rebuilding similar jobs from scratch.

 Improve Workforce Utilization

 Ensure labor, materials, tools, procedures, and job requirements are prepared before work reaches technicians, reducing delays and wasted time.

 Increase Backlog Transparency

Gain a clearer view of planned, unplanned, critical, delayed, and execution-ready work so teams can better prioritize maintenance activities.

 Standardize Planning Workflows

Create consistent planning practices across planners, departments, facilities, and sites to improve job quality and work readiness.

 Improve Resource Forecasting

 Understand upcoming labor, skills, equipment, and resource requirements earlier to support better planning and more realistic scheduling.

 Drive Continuous Improvement

Capture technician feedback and lessons learned from completed work to improve job plans, preserve maintenance knowledge, and make future work easier to plan and execute.

 The Right Plan. The Right Resources. The Right Execution. 

Planning That Delivers Measurable Results

Better planning does more than improve the planning process—it can directly impact maintenance productivity, equipment availability, labor efficiency, and safety. By standardizing work preparation and making proven job plans easier to reuse, organizations can unlock measurable performance improvements. 
20%+
 Wrench Time
 Increase wrench time from approximately 30% to more than 50%. 
70%
 Less Planning Time 
 Reduce planning time by reusing proven job plans instead of rebuilding work from scratch. 
20-30%
Higher Productivity
Increase operational productivity through better-prepared and more efficiently executed work.
35%
Greater Availability
Increase equipment availability through improved work readiness and maintenance execution.
90%
 Lower Safety Risk
 Reduce workplace safety risks through better-planned, standardized, and execution-ready work. 

From Maintenance Strategy to Executable Work

 Together, the Masaropex APM Optimizer Suite connects trusted asset data, maintenance strategy, detailed job planning, work execution feedback, and failure investigation within a continuous Asset Performance Management process. 

Data Optimizer

Create accurate, structured, trusted asset data.

 

Strategy Optimizer

Determines what maintenance should be performed and why.

Planning Optimizer

Transforms maintenance requirements into standardized, executable job plans.

Investigation Optimizer

Captures failures, corrective actions, and lessons learned that support continuous improvement.

Built for Planners. Designed for Execution.

Give your planners the visibility, structure, and tools they need to prepare quality work efficiently, and capture knowledge that makes the next job easier to plan.

Frequently Asked Questions About Planning Optimizer

Planning Optimizer® is a maintenance planning solution that helps organizations standardize planning workflows, improve backlog visibility, develop reusable job plans, estimate resource requirements, and prepare maintenance work for efficient execution. It provides a centralized environment for managing planning knowledge and continuously improving job plans. 

Planning Optimizer is designed for maintenance planners, planning supervisors, maintenance managers, schedulers, reliability professionals, and Work Management teams responsible for preparing and improving maintenance work. It can support individual facilities as well as organizations seeking greater planning consistency across multiple sites. 

Planning Optimizer is designed to complement existing CMMS and EAM systems by strengthening the detailed maintenance planning process. It helps planners develop standardized, execution-ready work while the organization’s CMMS or EAM can remain the primary system of record. 

Planning Optimizer creates a structured workflow for moving maintenance work from identification and prioritization through planning, preparation, execution, feedback, and improvement. This helps planners spend less time searching for information or recreating existing work and more time preparing quality, execution-ready jobs. 

Planning Optimizer provides greater visibility into planned, unplanned, critical, delayed, and execution-ready work. This helps teams understand where jobs are in the planning process, identify bottlenecks, and determine which work requires attention before it can move forward. 

Yes. Planning Optimizer helps organizations build a centralized library of reusable job plans and work packages. Instead of repeatedly planning similar jobs from scratch, planners can leverage proven work, capture lessons learned, and continuously improve job plans for future use. 

Planning Optimizer helps planners define job scope, labor, materials, tools, safety requirements, procedures, estimates, and other execution requirements before work reaches technicians. Better preparation can reduce delays caused by missing information or resources and support safer, more predictable maintenance execution. 

Planning Optimizer gives teams greater visibility into the labor, skills, time, equipment, materials, and other resources upcoming maintenance work may require. Understanding these requirements earlier helps planners prepare work more effectively and supports more realistic maintenance scheduling. 

Technicians often discover better methods, missing information, incorrect estimates, or additional requirements while executing maintenance. Planning Optimizer captures this field feedback so planners can update job plans, preserve maintenance knowledge, and make future work easier and more accurate to plan. 

Maintenance planning determines how work should be performed, including scope, labor, materials, tools, procedures, safety requirements, and estimated duration. Scheduling determines when prepared work will be performed and coordinates it with available labor, equipment, and operational requirements. Planning Optimizer focuses on creating quality, execution-ready work that can then move into the scheduling process. 

Planning Optimizer connects maintenance strategy with executable work. Within the Masaropex APM Optimizer Suite™, Data Optimizer™ establishes trusted asset data, Strategy Optimizer™ determines what maintenance should be performed and why, Planning Optimizer® transforms those requirements into executable job plans, and Investigation Optimizer™ captures failures, corrective actions, and lessons learned for continuous improvement. 

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