Business Awards UK Industrial Software of the Year 

WINNER 2024

NEPIC SME Business of the Year 

WINNER 2024

Lloyds British Business Awards AI Innovation Award 

FINALIST 2025

Q: WHAT IS TURNAROUND PLANNING SOFTWARE?

A: Turnaround planning software is a dedicated platform that helps operators plan, schedule, govern, and execute industrial shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages (STOs). Unlike general project management tools, turnaround planning software is built around the specific workflow of an STO - scope development, work pack management, materials coordination, contractor management, and real-time execution tracking.

Q: HOW IS STO PLANNING SOFTWARE DIFFERENT FROM A SPREADSHEET?

A: Spreadsheets are static, siloed, and have no change governance. A dedicated STO planning tool connects scope, schedule, materials, and execution in one live system - so when something changes, every connected part of the plan updates automatically. It also provides an audit trail, access controls, and reporting that spreadsheets cannot offer at scale.

Q: CAN TURNAROUND PLANNING SOFTWARE INTEGRATE WITH EXISTING ERP OR CMMS SYSTEMS?

A: Yes. iPlanSTO is designed to integrate with existing enterprise systems including SAP PM, IBM Maximo, Primavera P6, and IFS. Work orders, materials data, and cost codes can be imported and synchronised to avoid double-entry and keep your systems of record aligned.

Q: HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO IMPLEMENT IPLANSTO?

A: Implementation timelines vary by organisation size and complexity, but iPlanSTO is designed for rapid deployment. Many operators are running their first turnaround in the system within weeks of go-live, with full enterprise rollout typically completed within a few months. IAMTech provides implementation support and training for planners, schedulers, and supervisors.

Q: WHAT INDUSTRIES USE TURNAROUND PLANNING SOFTWARE?

A: Turnaround planning software is most widely used in oil and gas, refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, LNG, and power generation - anywhere that planned asset shutdowns are high-cost, high-complexity events where overruns have serious financial and safety consequences.

FOR TURNAROUND MANAGERS

You’re accountable for cost and schedule, but your data is fragmented across spreadsheets, inboxes and disconnected tools. By the time problems surface, your window to intervene has already closed.

HOW iPlanSTO ADDRESSES THIS: 

iPlanSTO gives your team a single governed dataset from the moment scope opens. Earned value tracking — Planned Value, Earned Value, Schedule Performance Index, Schedule Variance, Estimate at Completion — updates in real time as work progresses. You see the problem while there is still time to act on it, not in tomorrow's morning meeting.

FOR PLANNERS & SCHEDULERS

You’re rebuilding the same work packs from scratch every event. Planning effort is wasted, estimates are inconsistent across the team, and your schedule data doesn’t reflect what’s happening in the field. 

HOW iPlanSTO ADDRESSES THIS: 

iPlanSTO's Shutdown Intelligence Library stores executed job plans from previous events. On the next turnaround, planners begin from a structured baseline — editing rather than rebuilding — and the actuals from those executed plans form the starting point for the new duration and resource estimates. The AI Schedule Review Assistant scans the full CPM network for orphaned activities, dangling critical paths, and discipline sequencing conflicts each time the plan recalculates.

FOR OPERATIONS & ASSET DIRECTORS

Every day the plant is down is costing you production. Overruns aren’t just schedule failures — in offshore operations, a single day’s delay can mean $30M in lost output.

HOW iPlanSTO ADDRESSES THIS: 

iPlanSTO's scope governance starts before the first work pack is built. Every scope item passes through a J-Factor assessment — cost of doing the work vs. consequence of not doing it. Items that do not pass are deferred before they consume planning resource. Monte Carlo P10/P50/P90 confidence modelling gives the schedule its statistical backing before Day One. Your exposure is quantified, not estimated.

01

RISK-DRIVEN SCOPE GOVERNANCE 

Consolidate scope candidates from ERP notifications, inspections, reliability programmes and operational requests into one governed environment. AI scoping tools surface duplicate items, provide risk coaching and recommend priorities — so your final worklist is optimised for safety, reliability and production value, not just volume. 

OUTCOME: Lean, risk-optimised scope aligned to operational priorities. Stop spending money planning work packs you’ll later descope.

02

AI-POWERED PLANNING & WORK PACK GENERATION 

iPlanAI generates structured job plans from work descriptions, drawings, photos and engineering documentation — producing sequential job steps, trade allocations, crew sizes, manhour estimates, duration forecasts and material requirements in seconds. AI-enforced standardisation eliminates estimate variance across your planning team, accelerates work pack creation, and improves shutdown forecasting reliability exponentially. 

OUTCOME: Up to 89% reduction in repeat planning effort. Standardised estimation across every work order.

03

AI WORK PACK REVIEW & ASSURANCE 

Before packs are released to the field, iPlanAI validates whether the planned execution strategy is optimised — not just documented. It reviews completeness, labour feasibility, duration realism, cost accuracy, material availability and embedded risk exposure. 

“That job was executed just last month — and it only took two-thirds of the planned time. If we’d had this capability, the vessel would have returned to service two days sooner.”  
Turnaround Planner, Offshore FPSO Operation

PRODUCTION RECOVERY VALUE

1 hour earlier restart  →  ~$1.2M recovered production 
1 day earlier restart  →  ~$30M recovered production 
2 days earlier restart  →  ~$60M recovered production 
(Based on offshore oil at $80/bbl, 15,400 bpd recovery) 

OUTCOME: Field teams mobilise with fully engineered, execution-ready work packs — eliminating ambiguity, reducing supervisor clarification time, and preventing incomplete or unsafe scopes reaching the workface.

04

INTEGRATED SCHEDULING & GANTT EXECUTION CONTROL 

iPlanSTO includes a fully integrated scheduling environment built specifically for STO execution. Planners and execution leads can visualise, sequence and optimise work orders through an interactive Gantt — with schedule adjustments automatically updating linked work orders, labour allocations and progress records in real time. 

OUTCOME: No more planning in P6 and executing from a spreadsheet. Everything stays synchronised.

05

REAL-TIME EXECUTION VISIBILITY

Track shutdown performance as work happens — not after it finishes. Progress is captured at job step level, providing granular insight into workface status, workforce deployment and productivity performance. Live dashboards track earned value, contractor progress, delay exposure, emergent scope and forecast completion curves. 

OUTCOME: Greater shutdown control, improved workforce utilisation, and more predictable delivery outcomes.

06

MATERIALS & CONTRACTOR SERVICES INTELLIGENCE 

Execution success depends on material and contractor readiness. iPlanSTO integrates materials planning directly into job design — linking BOM data, consumables, spares, tools and external services to each work order. Full procurement tracking, cost modelling and contractor progress monitoring in one place.

07

ISOLATION, JOINT INTEGRITY & QA/QC

Design and govern full energy isolation strategies with LOTO tracking, digital blind/spade registers and electronic approvals. Maintain a permanent digital register of all flange assemblies. Capture inspection activities, test results, punch items and non-conformances directly against work scopes — building a live view of handover readiness throughout execution.

08

LESSONS LEARNED & SHUTDOWN INTELLIGENCE LIBRARY

Every shutdown generates operational knowledge — iPlanSTO makes sure you keep it. Structured libraries of work packs, job steps, materials and execution performance can be redeployed across future events, reducing repeat planning effort by up to 89%.

09

CONNECTED TO YOUR ENTERPRISE STACK

iPlanSTO integrates bi-directionally with ERP, EAM and enterprise scheduling platforms — including SAP, Maximo, IFS, Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project. Planning data flows seamlessly, eliminating duplicate data entry and protecting integrity across systems.

“Data control is excellent — when preparing for a shutdown, getting the key data in place upfront is crucial. The ability to analyse planning data within iPlan is excellent.” 

Matt Ramsdale, SABIC 

“IAMTech are a great company to work with. From the outset they have understood our business and have been able to come up with innovative solutions to meet our complex needs.” 

Kevin Robertson, Kaefer

“A useful, customised add-on to SAP, enabling third-party norms-based estimation and workpack generation for both routine maintenance and turnarounds.” 

Ben Foster, BP Chemicals 

AI Scope Enrichment -- SAP Notification Quality

The AI Enrichment Agent processes SAP notifications and maintenance orders before they enter the planning workflow -- applying the 8-category Completeness Indicator and Justification Factor (J-Factor) to flag underspecified or unjustified work items. Planners see which notifications are ready to plan and which need more information, before work pack development begins.

History-Seeded Estimation

Work pack generation draws from the Shutdown Intelligence Library -- a structured store of actuals from every previously executed job on similar equipment and job types in your asset. Duration estimates, labour requirements, and materials are seeded from real execution data (vs. original plan estimates), not from generic norms or individual estimator experience. Monte Carlo three-point estimates (P10/P50/P90) give the schedule a statistical basis rather than a single-point duration that accumulates float.

AI Schedule Review Assistant

Each time the plan recalculates, the AI Schedule Review Assistant scans the full network for orphaned activities, dangling critical path chains, and resource conflicts. It flags what it finds and returns it to the planner for decision -- it does not restructure the schedule. What-if scenarios are modelled with human-approval gating before any change propagates to the baseline.

AI Work Pack Review and Assurance

Before packs are released to the field, AI Work Pack Review validates each pack against actuals from previously executed work packs on similar equipment and job types -- checking completeness, labour feasibility, duration realism, cost accuracy, material availability, and embedded risk exposure. Legacy packs in PDF or third-party format can be imported; the system extracts work order details, labour steps, and materials into a structured grid for planner review.

AI Close-Out and Shutdown Intelligence Library

At close-out, the AI Close-Out Assistant flags variance hotspots tied to specific equipment: not a generic summary, but 'MECH ran 40% over on E-101 due to bolt seizure.' Lessons learned are drafted pre-filled -- title, recommendation, impact -- for the planner to review, edit, and accept while the knowledge is fresh. Asset Explorer puts the last three turnarounds on any piece of equipment side by side -- scope, estimate vs. actual, cost, quality -- with a trend line showing whether variance is improving. This data feeds directly into the next event's scope, estimates, and work packs.