Maintenance Scheduling

Maximize Maintenance Uptime Through Planning AI

  • Up to 10% Reduction in Idle Time
  • Automate complex planning with AI
  • Stay compliant & deliver on SLAs

Timefold’s maintenance scheduling Planning AI automates and optimizes your technicians’ schedules to reduce overall downtime and achieve higher operational efficiency.

Reap the Benefits of AI Optimized Maintenance Scheduling

Setting higher benchmarks for productivity and performance with AI.

  • Stay compliant, deliver on SLAs

  • Optimal use of resources

  • Increased Job Capacity

  • Maintenance at the right time

  • Increase employee satisfaction

Pitfalls

Avoid common pitfalls in Maintenance Scheduling

  • Pitfall: Overlooking dependencies between maintenance tasks can lead to scheduling conflicts and delays, as some tasks must be completed before others can begin.

    Timefold Solution: Timefold’s “Task Dependencies” feature ensures that tasks are scheduled in a logical sequence, preventing delays and inefficiencies by considering prerequisite tasks and their completion times.

  • Pitfall: Understaffing or overstaffing resulting in higher costs

    Problem: Inefficient allocation of technicians and equipment can lead to overstaffing or understaffing, driving up operational costs and reducing productivity.

    Timefold Solution: The “Resource Allocation” configuration enables efficient assignment of technicians and equipment based on their availability and specific maintenance needs, reducing costs and improving resource utilization.

  • Pitfall: Not taking technician skills into account

    Problem: Assigning tasks to technicians without considering their skill levels can result in poor quality maintenance and longer completion times.

    Timefold Solution: Timefold matches tasks with the appropriate skill sets of technicians, ensuring that each maintenance task is handled by a qualified individual, which improves task quality and efficiency.

  • Pitfall: Not Accounting for Equipment Availability

    Problem: Failing to plan maintenance when the equipment is available can cause delays if necessary tools or machines are not available when needed for maintenance tasks. Timefold Solution: Timefold includes “Equipment Availability” checks in its scheduling process, ensuring that necessary equipment is available when needed, thus avoiding delays and ensuring smooth operations.

  • Pitfall: Traditional maintenance schedules are often rigid, failing to adapt to changes in operational conditions, which can result in unnecessary downtime.

    Timefold Solution: With Timefold you can adjust schedules dynamically based on real-time data, minimizing downtime and ensuring that maintenance tasks are performed at the most optimal times.

Constraints

Start With Our Preconfigured Constraints and Add Your Own Custom Constraints Too!

  • Schedule by skill level

  • Compliance and Safety checks

  • Schedule Multi-day completion

  • Urgent Repairs

  • Schedule when spare parts are available

Need custom constraints? We’ll help you translate your unique business rule into an actionable constraint.

Why Choose Timefold

Discover the Plethora of Reasons Businesses Choose Us

  • Real-World Planning

    Address the complex challenges of maintenance scheduling, considering crucial factors like compliance requirements, technician availability, MRO inventory, and maintenance windows

    Real-World Planning
  • Customizable Planning Model

    Automate the planning for thousands of maintenance tasks, fully customizable to any constraint or preference. Experience the power of Planning AI.

    Customizable Planning Model
  • Smart Reassignment Engine

    Unforeseen conditions happen, and Timefold’s Smart Reassignment Engine suggests the best-fit backup technicians and schedules. Stay prepared and maintain smooth planning, even under unexpected changes.

    Smart Reassignment Engine
  • MRO inventory aware scheduling

    Automatically take MRO inventory availability into account. Optimize your operations by having the necessary parts and supplies ready, reducing delays and downtime

    MRO inventory aware scheduling
  • Intelligent, compliant Maintenance Scheduling

    Let our planning AI handle your predictive, routine, and reactive maintenance while ensuring compliance.

    Intelligent, compliant Maintenance Scheduling
  • Beyond Daily Planning

    Beyond Daily Planning Timefold’s continuous planning optimizes schedules over the long term, not just day-to-day, resulting in greater efficiency and better task management.

    Beyond Daily Planning
  • REST API

    Send your planning data as a JSON file to our fully managed platform through the REST API and receive optimized solutions effortlessly.

    REST API

Testimonials

Loved by Data Science Teams, Trusted by Business Leaders...

  • The Timefold platform is better than anything we have ever seen or used before. By optimizing the planning, we reduce the workload for our people and make our transports more environmentally friendly. In this way, the circle is complete.

    Gregoire Chové

    Managing Director, Ecoprogram Flotte

    Ecoprogram Flotte
  • Timefold worked in partnership with NEC to provide the optimisation required and extended their platform to accommodate specific requirements for the Social Housing sector. The time to market was shortened through agile partnerships working.

    Trevor Hampton

    Product Director, NEC

    NEC
  • Tasked with a complex scheduling problem, we didn't just propose a solution; we built one — operational in real-time, with real data in 4 days. Thanks in large part to the solid foundation of Timefold, the client selected us on the strength of our demonstration.

    Michael Galkovsky

    NATO, Intelligence, and Defense Chief Architect, IBM services

    IBM

FAQ

Got More Questions? We Have Answers.

  • Timefold is designed for easy integration with a wide range of Service Management software through API connectivity. We provide detailed documentation and support for REST APIs, allowing seamless data exchange and functionality within your existing software ecosystem.

  • Timefold offers both a fully managed cloud service and an on-premise (self-hosted) option, giving you the flexibility to choose the deployment that best fits your security, control, and infrastructure needs.

  • Our platform offers extensive customization through a powerful rule engine that allows you to define specific scheduling rules, constraints, and preferences. From setting individual employee availability to complex labor compliance requirements, Timefold can be tailored to meet the precise needs of your organization, ensuring that your scheduling is both efficient and compliant.

  • Yes. Timefold is built on a scalable architecture that supports businesses of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. Our solution can handle increasing amounts of data and complex scheduling scenarios, ensuring that as your business grows, Timefold grows with you, maintaining performance and reliability

  • We prioritize data privacy and security. Our system uses encryption for data in transit and at rest, regular security audits, and access controls to ensure that your employee information is protected against unauthorized access and breaches.

  • Our solution utilizes dynamic scheduling algorithms that can quickly adapt to changes, such as fluctuating demand, employee availability, or last-minute absences. Timefold's flexibility ensures that your scheduling remains optimal, responsive, and resilient to change, minimizing disruptions and maintaining operational efficiency.

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Timefold is an AI planning optimization platform, built on powerful open-source solver technology, enabling software builders to tackle real-world, complex and high-impact operational planning problems. It delivers significant economic value in optimization operations like extended VRP, maintenance scheduling, field service routing, task sequencing, etc.

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