
Building that plan means hunting through 6+ systems for parts, procedures, history, and availability.
The planner processes incoming work requests daily, turning them into executable jobs. That means finding equipment records, building or reusing job plans, estimating labor and materials, and checking parts availability — across systems that don't share data.
New requests overnight, carryovers from yesterday, emergency add-ons — all competing for the same schedule.
One work order. Six systems. Pull equipment records, find the procedure, check parts, estimate hours.
How was this job done last time? If the last work order says "fixed pump," the planner starts from scratch.
PMs, corrective work, and emergencies — all fighting for 85-90% of available craft hours. When something breaks, the whole plan shifts.
Find out what's failing, why it's failing, and how to stop it from happening again. Bad actor identification, root cause analysis, PM optimization — that's the real work. But 60-70% of their time goes to finding and formatting data, not analyzing it.
Checking overnight alarms across 3 to 5 systems just to answer "what happened last night?"
Someone asks "Why did Compressor C trip again?" The answer is in five systems. They need it in five seconds.
Pump P-4301 in the CMMS, tag PI:4301.PV in the historian, Asset #77412 in vibration — the engineer holds that mapping in their head.
Exporting data from CMMS, historian, vibration system, and oil analysis reports into Excel — normalizing timestamps and equipment IDs that don't match

Work orders come back with "fixed pump" instead of real failure details.
The planner can't scope jobs and the RE can't analyze patterns — both stuck with the same bad data.

The RCA from three years ago that answers today's question?
Buried in SharePoint. The corrective action the RE recommended? Sitting in a tracker, weeks overdue.

Management wants KPIs on their phone.
They won't fund the data cleanup. Shadow reports are built in Excel to fill the gap.
BOLO AI reviews equipment history, parts, vendor specs, and past jobs — then recommends scope, materials, and steps before the planner starts. Six systems' worth of research, done.
The morning briefing is ready at 6 AM. Bad actor reports that took a full day generate in minutes. RCA evidence that took 8 hours assembles in 30 minutes. Weekly reporting drops from 20+ hours to 3-5.
Every asset, every system, every history — in one place, the moment your team needs it.
Connect your systems, generate the reports, and let your team compare BOLO's output to what they built by hand.
Every Maintenance Job Needs a Plan Before A Wrench Turns.