CARL Berger-Levrault, European leader in CMMS and a subsidiary of the Berger-Levrault Group, continues its drive for innovation in maintenance. As of spring 2025, the publisher will present CARL Optim, an AI-based solution that automates the creation of resource schedules for technical departments. Designed for all industries – manufacturing, facility management, public authorities, or network management – this innovation meets an essential need: simplifying a time-consuming and complex task.
This innovation has been eagerly awaited by maintenance professionals, as shown by a survey of CARL Berger-Levrault software users, who, at 52%, ranked resource scheduling optimization engines as one of the most eagerly awaited innovations. Hardly surprising, considering how tedious this planning task can be, given the business constraints to be considered.
Developed with the support of the Berger-Levrault Group’s AI Lab for research and innovation, CARL Optim optimizes scheduling thanks to meta-heuristic AI algorithms capable of processing hundreds of maintenance work orders in just a few minutes.
Combined with CARL Source CMMS, CARL Optim integrates the various business constraints to provide the most effective organization for managing maintenance department operations. Tested with long-standing clients in the industrial, facility management and healthcare sectors, the initial results are convincing:
- +50% time saving on planning,
- + 30% increase in technical team productivity,
- -15% reduction in mileage costs.
Concretely CARL Optim allows you to create simulations that are optimized according to real constraints: estimated travel time, respect for geographical zones, load balancing, technician expertise, machine access schedule for production, technician availability schedule, etc.
Target performance levels are reached:
- For planners and sustainable teams: considerable time savings in maintenance organization of work and total control of results.
- For sustainability-oriented activity managers: optimized anticipation of resource requirements thanks to integrated activity simulations.
- For maintenance technicians: better organization of travel and balanced distribution of maintenance work.
- For end-customers: improved satisfaction thanks to the integration of contractual SLA commitments into planning.
With CARL Optim, CARL Berger-Levrault pursues its strategy of supporting clients in meeting the challenges of maintenance 5.0.
