--- title: Maximize Productivity | Optimize Work Management Strategies description: Maximize productivity and reduce downtime with Nexus Global's work management strategies, ensuring efficient maintenance planning and execution for optimal operational performance. --- [Skip to the main content.](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/work-management#main-content) [![Nexus Logo PNG White](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Nexus%20Logo%20PNG%20White.png?width=1600&height=645&name=Nexus%20Logo%20PNG%20White.png "Nexus Logo PNG White")](https://www.nexusglobal.com) [![Nexus Logo PNG Black](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Nexus%20Logo%20PNG%20Black.png?width=1600&height=645&name=Nexus%20Logo%20PNG%20Black.png "Nexus Logo PNG Black")](https://www.nexusglobal.com) - [Software](https://www.nexusglobal.com/software) - Business Optimizer - Data Optimizer - Strategy Optimizer - Planning Optimizer - Investigation Optimizer - Software Integrations - [Services](https://www.nexusglobal.com/asset-management-as-a-service) - [Solutions](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apm-solutions) - Leadership - Strategy Management - Work Management - Data Management - Investigation Management - [Training](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apm-training) - [Industries](https://www.nexusglobal.com/clients) - [Knowledge Center](https://blog.nexusglobal.com) - [About](https://www.nexusglobal.com/about) - Careers - Schedule a Call Search [Contact Us](https://info.nexusglobal.com/contact-us) Toggle Menu Search Toggle Menu [Contact Us](https://info.nexusglobal.com/contact-us) - [Software](https://www.nexusglobal.com/software) - Business Optimizer - Data Optimizer - Strategy Optimizer - Planning Optimizer - Investigation Optimizer - Software Integrations - [Services](https://www.nexusglobal.com/asset-management-as-a-service) - [Solutions](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apm-solutions) - Leadership - Strategy Management - Work Management - Data Management - Investigation Management - [Training](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apm-training) - [Industries](https://www.nexusglobal.com/clients) - [Knowledge Center](https://blog.nexusglobal.com) - [About](https://www.nexusglobal.com/about) - Careers - Schedule a Call - Example Link - Example Link - Example Link [Facebook](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/work-management#0) [Instagram](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/work-management#0) [Linkedin](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/work-management#0) [X](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/work-management#0) [YouTube](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/work-management#0) [Medium](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/work-management#0) [![Bo](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/Bo.svg) Business Optimizer DISCOVERING HIDDEN CAPACITY](https://www.nexusglobal.com/businessopt) [![Do](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hubfs/Banner%20Images%20and%20Logos/Do.svg) Data Optimizer VALIDATE ASSET DATA QUALITY](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/data-management/dataoptimizer) [![So-1](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hubfs/So-1.svg) Strategy Optimizer MORE THAN JUST PM OPTIMIZATION](https://www.nexusglobal.com/strategyopt) [![Po](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hubfs/Banner%20Images%20and%20Logos/Po.svg) Planning Optimizer SIMPLIFYING & OPTIMIZING MAINTENANCE PLANNING](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/work-management/planning-optimizer) [![Io](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hubfs/Io.svg) Investigation Optimizer IDENTIFYING FAILURES FOR UNPARALLELED RELIABILITY](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/investigation-management/investigationopt) [![Topic Icons\_Software](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hubfs/Banner%20Images%20and%20Logos/Topic%20Icons_Software.svg) Software Support FOR EXISTING USERS](https://www.nexusglobal.com/software-support) [![l-domain-01](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/l-domain-01.png?width=50&height=40&name=l-domain-01.png) Leadership](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/leadership) [![sm-domain-01](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/sm-domain-01.png?width=50&height=40&name=sm-domain-01.png) Strategy Management](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/strategy-management) [![wm-domain-01](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/wm-domain-01.png?width=50&height=40&name=wm-domain-01.png) Work Management](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/work-management) [![dm-domain-01](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/dm-domain-01.png?width=50&height=40&name=dm-domain-01.png) Data Management](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/data-management) [![im-domain-01](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/im-domain-01.png?width=50&height=40&name=im-domain-01.png) Investigation Management](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/investigation-management) [Careers](https://www.nexusglobal.com/careers) [Schedule a Call](https://info.nexusglobal.com/consultation) # Plan Smarter. Execute Better. Maximize Productivity. Improve maintenance planning, scheduling, and work execution with proven work management strategies that reduce downtime, increase workforce productivity, and ensure every job is completed safely, efficiently, and on time. ![wm-domain-01](https://www.nexusglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/wm-domain-01.png?width=720&height=576&name=wm-domain-01.png) ## Workforce Productivity Improvement --- ### Work Management #### Optimizing efficiency time and time again. The ability to plan and schedule work that minimizes interruption with production is an absolute necessity to ensure work is executed in a safe and efficient manner. The best performing companies migrate to proactive asset strategies to accelerate work execution productivity, leading to increased uptime while lowering operational costs. Successful execution of planned work ensures efforts are completed in the safest manner, in the shortest period of time, that is least disruptive, and at optimal cost. Through effective Work Management, Nexus Global can optimize the utilization of your workforce to restore, rebuild, and maintain production assets while practically eliminating unscheduled breakdowns, resulting in increased profit margins. With the experience and knowledge to enhance the entire work management process, Nexus Global partners with clients to identify key performance drivers such as productivity and utilization, OEE, work processes, organizational structure, and supervision. ### What is Work Management in maintenance? Work Management is the structured process used to identify, prioritize, plan, schedule, execute, close out, and continuously improve maintenance work. Effective Work Management helps ensure the right work is performed at the right time with the appropriate labor, materials, tools, procedures, and safety requirements. The goal is to improve work execution while increasing asset availability and workforce productivity.  ### What is the difference between maintenance planning and scheduling? **Maintenance planning** determines how a job will be performed, including the scope, labor, parts, tools, procedures, safety requirements, and estimated time. **Scheduling** determines when the work will be performed and assigns available resources based on priorities, equipment availability, and operational requirements. Both are essential to creating predictable and efficient maintenance execution. ### How does Work Management improve workforce productivity? Effective Work Management reduces the non-value-added time technicians spend waiting for instructions, searching for parts, traveling, or preparing work themselves. Better planning, kitting, scheduling, and job readiness allow technicians to spend more of their available time executing maintenance work. Nexus Global specifically identifies workforce productivity and utilization as key performance drivers within Work Management.  ### How does Work Management help reduce maintenance backlog? Work Management creates a structured process for evaluating, prioritizing, planning, and scheduling maintenance work instead of allowing work orders to accumulate without clear ownership or readiness. Visibility into planned versus unplanned work, critical jobs, resource requirements, and planning bottlenecks helps teams make better decisions about what work should move forward and when.  ### How does Planning Optimizer support Work Management? Planning Optimizer® helps standardize the maintenance planning process by providing visibility into backlog and planning workflows, building reusable job-plan libraries, supporting resource planning, and capturing feedback from work execution. This helps organizations create more consistent job plans and move maintenance work from identification toward execution more Explore [Planning Optimizer® ](https://www.nexusglobal.com/apmsolutions/work-management/planning-optimizer) ###### 8 min read #### [The 3 Most Popular RCA Tools](https://blog.nexusglobal.com/the-3-most-popular-rca-tools) Larry Olson | CMRP, CRL, CAMA: Jul 29, 2020 Unfortunately when it comes to life and reliability. there isn't a crystal ball and unpredicted problems can occur in... ###### 5 min read #### [Asset Performance Management | More Than Just EAM](https://blog.nexusglobal.com/apm-more-than-just-eam) Larry Olson | CMRP, CRL, CAMA: Sep 8, 2023 EAM/CMMS is a tool. 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