6 posts tagged “Scheduling”
Optimizer can only honor constraints that exist as data, and most of that data has to be cleaned before the first run. This is the tactical heart of the series: the prerequisite checklist, the craft/skill and shift cleanup that is the real project, the location coordinates that unlock travel optimization, and a data-readiness checklist to run before you blame the solver.
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 3 of 5
Optimizer's behavior is defined by three things — the constraints it must respect, the objectives you tell it to pursue, and the parameters that bound the solver. This part walks all nine scheduling constraints, the five weighted objective functions, crew scheduling and resource leveling, and the parameters that make or break a run.
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 2 of 5
A five-part program for standing up true scheduling optimization in IBM Maximo Application Suite 9 — from why the 7.6 Scheduler was never an optimizer, through the constraint-and-objective model, the labor and location data it lives or dies on, routing and ArcGIS spatial integration, to the Dispatching Dashboard and a phased, Phase-4 rollout.
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 0 of 5
The 7.6 Scheduler drew what a human decided; Maximo Optimizer decides. This part draws the hard line between graphical scheduling and mathematical optimization — constraint programming and mixed-integer programming — and positions Optimizer honestly as a Phase 4 amplifier that only works on clean data underneath it.
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 1 of 5
How Maximo AI Assist uses watsonx.ai for natural language queries, WO creation, and field recommendations — plus Optimizer's constraint-based scheduling with route optimization. Also covers Civil Infrastructure and Parts Identifier.
Posam LakshminarayanaMar 17, 2026Part 14 of 25
How MAS 9 replaces Start Centers with Operational Dashboards, Result Set Portlets with Work Queues, and unlocks Graphical Scheduling for free. Complete coverage of card types, KPI Manager, Work Queue configuration, and the 8 scheduling applications now included in base Manage.
Posam LakshminarayanaMar 17, 2026Part 4 of 25