Maintenance Planning as a Service (MPaaS)
Transform Planning from Cost Centre to Competitive Advantage

COSOL's Maintenance Planning as a Service (MPaaS) delivers expert, always-on planning for less than 30% of the cost of in-house teams – with zero turnover risk and guaranteed service levels.

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<p><span style="font-size: 0.4em;">Maintenance Planning as a Service <span style="text-transform: none !important;">(MPaaS)</span></span><br />
<span style="text-transform: none !important;">Transform Planning from <mark>Cost Centre</mark> to <mark>Competitive Advantage</mark></span></p>

Do these maintenance planning challenges sound familiar?

Planning Costs Are Out Of Control

You’re paying $250K-$350K per planner (fully loaded), needing multiple disciplines, and getting inconsistent output. Half their week is lost to meetings, admin, and system workarounds that should be automated.

Turnover Resets You To Zero

When planners leave, you lose institutional knowledge, planning standards, and spend months ramping up replacements. Every departure cost you in lost productivity.

Inconsistent Planning Quality Creates Risk

Planning quality depends entirely on who’s doing it. Incomplete job packs, missing parts, inadequate safety permits – each inconsistency delays work, increases emergency repairs, and puts people at risk.

You're Stuck with 20-Year-Old Processes

Your competitors are using AI and predictive planning. You’re still dealing with manual scoping, fragmented spreadsheets, and planning workflows that prevent you from scaling or automating anything.

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How MPaaS Works

MPaaS combines seasoned asset management experts with AI-powered tools to deliver planning as a managed service – for less than you’re spending today.

Step 1: We Take On Your Planning Workflow

What Happens:

COSOL’s expert planners – with real site experience in mechanical, electrical, fixed plant, and mobile assets – integrate directly into your maintenance workflow. We use your existing EAM system (SAP, Maximo, Infor, Pronto) and follow your standards. You have full transparency into our activities, regular reporting against our SLA, and you never lose control of your data.

The Difference:

Unlike labour hire, you get a dedicated team backed by COSOL’s methodology, quality assurance, and technology stack. No individual dependency. No knowledge loss. Just consistent, high-quality planning, year in year out.

Step 2: Technology Does The Repetitive Work

What Happens:

Our proprietary planning toolkit automates the repetitive work – data extraction, job history analysis, parts lookups, standard task templates – freeing planners to focus on the critical thinking: scope validation, risk assessment, and exception handling.

The Result:

One COSOL planner produces 2x the output of a traditional site-based planner. Same quality, double the volume. That’s how we deliver immediate cost savings without cutting corners.

Step 3: Continuous Improvement Through AI

What Happens:

As our planners work within your environment, our methodology gets sharper. We capture learnings, refine standard task templates, tighten parts and resource estimates, and close the gaps that drain time and repeat effort. Everything happens inside your existing systems and security boundaries – your data never leaves your IT environment, and you retain full control at every stage.

Your Benefit:

The more we plan, the more efficient the process becomes – not because we’re adding headcount, but because we’re eliminating waste in the workflow itself. Productivity continues to improve month on month. What starts at 1:2 output versus a traditional planner evolves toward 1:3, then higher, as refined processes and accumulated site knowledge reduce handling time on every job. You bank those gains without lifting a finger.

Step 1: We Take On Your Planning Workflow

Step 2: Technology Does The Repetitive Work

Step 3: Continuous Improvement Through AI

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Everything You Need to Transform Planning from Cost Centre to Competitive Advantage

Better Planning for Less Cost

Our technology toolkit cuts planning time by 50%+ on high-volume, repeatable work. More capacity means faster response to unplanned work requests and better support during shutdown periods without adding headcount.

Expert Planners with Real Industry Experience

Our planners aren't just schedulers – they're engineers and technicians who've run plants, led maintenance teams, and fixed failures themselves. They understand mining, oil & gas, and heavy industry operations inside out.

Works with Your Existing Systems

MPaaS integrates seamlessly with SAP, Maximo, Infor EAM, Pronto, and other enterprise systems. No rip-and-replace. No complex IT projects. We work within your environment, not force you to change it.

Zero Turnover Risk, Zero Knowledge Loss

Stop restarting every time a planner leaves. MPaaS planners are backed by COSOL's 25-year asset management methodology, documented standards, and seamless team coverage. Your planning continuity is guaranteed by contract.

Consistent Quality Across All Assets

Every job pack meets the same standard – complete scope, accurate parts lists, proper safety documentation. Our QA process catches errors before they reach your field teams.

Transparency to support confidence and trust

See exactly what's being planned, who's working on what, and how performance is tracking against SLAs. Monthly governance reviews ensure alignment and continuous improvement.

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See MPaaS in Action

For a flat monthly fee, we do your planning. We do this through combining capable subject matter experts (SMEs) with industry leading technology. Customised to your business and unique needs. Guaranteed quality.

Your planning function becomes predictable, measurable, and consistently high-performing.

Maintenance Managers will see

– The work gets done quickly with no fuss
– Improved asset performance from quality planning
– Capable, experienced planners using industry leading technology
– Absolute transparency and guaranteed results

GMs/Executives will see

– Immediate ROI without impacting planning quality
– Planning cost per role reduces year on year
– Better plan consistency, delivering better asset performance
– Guaranteed results

Who we support

COSOL doesn't serve every industry – we serve the ones that can't afford failure

Verticals we service

Natural Resources | Utilities | Transport | Infrastructure | Government

Asset Leaders we support

Maintenance Manager | General Manager of Assets | Site General Manager | C-Suite

Locations We Service

Australia-wide, from remote mining operations to city-based transport services.

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FAQ's

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Your data stays under your control. COSOL holds ISO 27001:2022 certification – the international standard for information security management – achieved with zero non-conformances. This means our processes, controls, and obligations around your data aren't aspirational. They're audited and verified.

We work within your environment, under your rules. Data is accessed and used strictly in accordance with your business requirements and governance policies. Nothing leaves your environment unless explicitly agreed, documented, and managed under a formal process.

You have full visibility at every stage: who accesses your data, how it is used, and what controls are in place.

For procurement and IT teams evaluating risk, we're happy to provide our security documentation and walk through our compliance framework in detail.

We start with a pilot phase on low risk assets (2-4 week setup), prove quality and reliability, then expand to full coverage. This phased approach means you're seeing results within 30 days while minimising risk.

For business changes like this, we understand trust and transparency matters.

No. MPaaS works within your current environment – SAP, Maximo, Infor, Pronto, or others. We integrate with your existing systems, processes, and standards. Our planners are trained across all major EAM platforms and adapt to your specific configuration. Our planning toolkit works alongside your EAM, with data carefully managed according to your business’ data security and protection requirements. No system changes or IT projects.

That's exactly why MPaaS delivers value. Our planners work with imperfect data – they fill gaps, standardise formats, and gradually uplifting data quality as part of the planning process. Unlike generic contractors, COSOL planners bring 25 years of asset management expertise. They know how to improve systems and processes along the way.

For significant master data remediation our Master Data as a Service (MDaaS) provides exactly this service.

Every job goes through our QA process before delivery. We have documented planning standards, processes, regular peer checks, and monthly governance reviews. Quality performance is written into our SLA – we're contractually accountable and transparent for each step.

You never notice. That's the entire point of the team model. Planning knowledge is documented, shared across the team, and backed up by COSOL's institutional expertise. Coverage is seamless.

Unlike individual contractors, MPaaS is a service delivery model. If a planner transitions, another team member immediately picks up their work using shared standards, documentation, and our planning toolkit. There's no 6-month ramp-up or knowledge loss.

Yes. Need 3 additional planners for a 6-week shutdown? We deploy them rapidly from our resource pool, scaling back down when demand normalises. Because MPaaS planners use standardised processes and shared tools, adding capacity doesn't require lengthy onboarding. New team members are productive within hours, not months.

From day 1. Productivity gains (1:2 ratio) are typically verified within the first 30-60 days of the pilot. ROI case is developed based on your unique circumstances – and can be calculated based on your economic drivers obligation free. Contact us to set up some time to develop your business value case.