ALICE’s solution for Shutdown, Turnaround, and Outage (STO) for industrial projects combines AI-powered planning, stress testing, and optimization. It enables users to automatically generate detailed schedules, simulate thousands of what-if scenarios, and identify optimal solutions for time, cost, and resource balance.

Powered by generative scheduling technology, ALICE helps industrial construction planning and scheduling teams plan and execute turnarounds faster and more efficiently.

By automating optimal schedule creation and optimization, teams can cut planning time from months to weeks or even hours, minimize downtime, reduce resource peaks, and improve overall predictability of project outcomes.

Unlike traditional scheduling tools that only calculate durations, ALICE uses generative scheduling technology to think through the entire solution space and explore the realm of possible for optimal, feasible alternatives.

It continuously evaluates scope, logic, and constraints to propose the best execution paths—making it proactive rather than reactive compared to legacy STO software.

Shutdown and turnaround events are among the most complex projects in heavy industry. Teams often face: 

• Fragmented data and disconnected systems creating silos — scope, maintenance, and contractor data are often spread across spreadsheets and tools that don’t talk to each other.

• Underdefined scopes and late changes — incomplete or shifting work scopes make it difficult to lock in accurate sequences or resource plans.

• Manual and time-consuming schedule creation — building a first-pass schedule can take months, especially when planners must “copy and paste” from past events or start from scratch.

• Resource and cost uncertainty — traditional tools make it hard to predict the impact of limited crews, equipment bottlenecks, or procurement delays.

• Limited real-time visibility — once execution begins, progress tracking and recovery decisions often rely on manual updates and disconnected dashboards.

ALICE resolves these challenges by connecting scope, schedule, and resource data within a single AI-driven platform. Starting from your existing baseline schedule files, ALICE can automatically generate optimized, logic-based schedules, tests thousands of what-if scenarios, and highlights optimal solutions that balance time, cost, and resource constraints. During execution, planners can quickly model recovery options and maintain alignment with commissioning milestones—achieving faster, safer, and more predictable turnarounds.