Mobile equipment management
Scheduling follows the equipment, not the calendar
Trucks, loaders, drills. The maintenance cycle is driven by operating hours and by the window production leaves open. When the plan is built on the side, it's already wrong by Monday morning.
Today
The mobile plan lives in a file separate from the CMMS, maintained by a single person.
Availability conflicts, truck versus production dispatch, are discovered in the field.
Equipment-level usage history is hard to pull up when it's time to justify a cycle.
Consolidation
The mobile plan, synchronized with the CMMS and dispatch
Actual hours flow back in, production windows are visible in the same view, and the daily utilization rate reads at a glance. No more rebuilding the same plan three times a week.
Control
The conflict is resolved in one move, before it reaches the field
The planner sees the overlap appear, reassigns the window or the shop bay, and conflicts are re-detected automatically across the rest of the plan.
What changes
Before and after
| Today | With PlanMI |
|---|---|
| Shadow Excel file alongside the CMMS for the mobile plan | Mobile Gantt view synchronized with the CMMS and dispatch |
| Availability conflict discovered at dispatch | Conflict detected at the planning stage, before it reaches the field |
| Scattered usage history | Equipment-level history, viewable in one place |
| Slow, manual plan adjustments | Drag and drop with automatic conflict re-detection |
From plan to execution
The validated plan feeds the work order directly
Who it's for
The people who live this use case every day
- Maintenance planner
- Maintenance superintendent
- Production dispatch
- Maintenance management
Frequently asked questions
What we hear, and how we answer
We already handle this in Excel, and it works.
It works until the day the person who maintains the file is gone, or until a conflict turns up the day before the job. PlanMI doesn't replace the CMMS; it eliminates the shadow file.
We already use Prometheus or OneRiver.
Those tools cover generic ERP, but they don't distinguish mobile from fixed plant and they don't cover Deswik. Worth validating against your own ERP setup.
Our team isn't tech-savvy.
The interface is designed for a planner: a Gantt view and drag and drop, not one more complex system to learn.
How many Excel files live in your mobile plan right now?
Thirty minutes with your planner and your real data, and we'll see whether it holds up.
