Patent ID: 8600536

Claim:
A system for electronically managing a structured maintenance project for a large-scale asset during a scheduled maintenance period, the system comprising: a schedule management system configured to facilitate communications among workers and managers during the scheduled maintenance period and expedite completion of the structured maintenance project, wherein the schedule management system comprises instructions stored on one or more memory devices, and wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more hardware processors, cause the schedule management system to: access planning information from at least one planning system; access a master schedule from a scheduling system that is configured to aggregate planning information from the at least one planning system, wherein the master schedule is created by the scheduling system using data comprising the planning information and contains scheduling information for structured tasks, wherein the structured tasks have one or more predecessor dependencies, one or more successor tasks, or a combination of predecessor dependencies and successor tasks; create a secondary schedule from an instance of the master schedule before the scheduled maintenance period begins or during the scheduled maintenance period; during the scheduled maintenance period, receive a task update for a task in the secondary schedule, wherein the task update provides updated information comprising at least one of updated planning information or updated scheduling information for the task; revise the secondary schedule to include at least a portion of the updated information when the task update is received; provide updated planning information to the planning system when the task update includes updated planning information; provide updated scheduling information to the scheduling system when the task update includes updated scheduling information; associate the task with a subscriber network comprising personnel attached to one or more predecessor dependencies or successor tasks of the task, wherein the subscriber network is configured to electronically transmit at least a portion of the updated information from the schedule management system to electronic devices used by the personnel; and transmit at least a portion of the updated information via the subscriber network when the task update is received.