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IBM MAS - Scheduler

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VET Use secondary craft to populate the destination travel matrix for spatial optimisation

Modify optimiser so that it takes into account primary and secondary crafts when assigning resources to a workorder. When implemented this will increase the capabilities of this product for dealing with regionalised workforces. While working with ...
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 1 Delivered

Enhance Calendar function for Shift Breaks to support new Graphical applications

With more clients using the new version of Graphical Scheduling and Graphical Work Week, a gap in Calendar/Shift functionality is being identified. Currently, the functionality to create Shift Breaks will only work with the Graphical Assignment ap...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 1 Delivered

Need functionality to schedule resources on different shifts in different timeframes

e.g., plant outage 6 months away needs 12 hour shifts for its 30 day duration but whatever shift you add to the Labor record impacts not only the outage timeframe but the current work. Need the capability to have date ranges for shifts on the labo...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 2 Delivered

Graphical Scheduler - Labor Availability does not consider Shift Work Hours

Graphical Scheduler Labor Availability uses start time and end time of shift to define initial (before modavail) work hours, it does not consider the Work Hours field data. For example if shift start/end times are 8am-4:30pm (the worker has 30 min...
about 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 0 Delivered

GWW - Additional Resource Columns

In Graphical Work Week there should be additional columns to select and filter by. For consistency Default Vendor, Crew Assignment, Work Location and Work Zone are fields found in the Graphical Assignment application. The Supervisor field should a...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 1 Delivered

Consider lunch time and shift break in the calculation of available hours.

The Resource Hours-based subtab shows available time but doesn't consider the non-work hours setup in the Calendar application (lunch time/ shift breaks). That would be interesting if planners could work with the real available time per resource i...
about 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 2 Delivered

MAXIMO WORKORDER.PCPHYS Physical Percent Complete field allows values of 999,999,999,999

Work Order Tracking application WO Percent Complete should not exceed 100. While testing our demo environment 7.6.1, it was found that Work Orders would accept Physical Percent Complete values up to 999,999,999,999 due to the underlying field WORK...
about 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 3 Delivered

Add “Auto publish scheduler optimisation results to live workorders” capability to scheduler

Addition of functionality to allow users to automatically publish scheduler optimisation results to the associated workorders.The functionality would be enabled by a new checkbox “Auto Publish Optimisation Results?” on the “Run Optimization” dialo...
over 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 2 Delivered

Graphical Scheduling / Compliance tab - link, filter and display Compliance Detail records based on Plan Work, Actual Work, Break-in and Break-out counts

Schedulers will want to know the detail of all of the counts listed in a Compliance record. Rather than just using the clip board to display the equivalent of the Plan Work Records in the Compliance Detail dialog, have a link from the Plan Work, A...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 0 Delivered

Dynamic filtering in Graphical view

Filtering in Graphical scheduler (Graphical view) works in a way, that if you want to filter a specific column you get all of the possibilities to choose from. But this does not work in a dynamic way meaning, that if I choose options from column A...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 3 Delivered