A Development of a Resource Planning Method for Reducing Outage Duration

This paper handles a workforce re‐planning problem when an unplanned urgent task occurs and proposes a method to reduce the total outage duration of the plan. Recently, many enterprises have been introducing Field Service Management (FSM) system. FSM supports enterprises to list on‐site tasks, manage progress of them, and plan workforce schedule for more efficient and faster work. It is expected to be utilized for power companies because they also have many on‐site tasks such as managing assets/vegetation, replacing/fixing grid elements, and removing faluts. On‐site tasks in the filed of power grids often require a planned outage to ensure safety for filed workforces. Thus, when an falut occurs, they have to stop their service due to the additional unplanned outage. This paper focuses on the ineffciency and proposes a method to bundle unplanned and planned outage by bringing forward planned tasks to the unplanned outage duration. The method was tested in two cases and confirmed that it can reduce the total outage duration or increase the number of planned tasks by appropriately setting the urgent task deadline in input task list.