New resource planning, AI-enabled Smart Scheduling, risk-based workflows, and performance enhancements help life sciences manufacturers plan and execute asset management work more efficiently

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Mountain, the leader in GMP-compliant Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software for life sciences, today announced the Summer 2026 release of its RAM platform, introducing new capabilities that bring greater precision and intelligence to how regulated asset management work is planned, assigned, reviewed, executed, and documented.

The Summer release expands RAM beyond work execution with new Resource Planning & Scheduling capabilities that give maintenance, calibration, metrology, facilities, and engineering teams a visual workspace to plan and assign work. New AI-enabled Smart Scheduling builds on that foundation with intelligent technician recommendations, while risk-based approval routing, expanded Work Plan Execution capabilities, and significant platform performance improvements help organizations reduce administrative effort and improve the quality and efficiency of everyday work.

Together, the enhancements help life sciences manufacturers match resources and effort more precisely to the work that needs to be performed—while maintaining the control, traceability, and compliance required for GMP operations.

Plan and Allocate Resources More Effectively

New Resource Planning & Scheduling capabilities provide teams with a centralized, visual way to organize, assign, and track work across technicians and other resources directly within RAM.

Rather than opening and updating individual work records one at a time, planners and schedulers can manage work assignments more efficiently from a common scheduling workspace. This helps teams coordinate maintenance and calibration activities, understand resource availability, identify potential scheduling conflicts, and balance workloads across people and operational priorities.

By bringing resource planning together with work execution in RAM, organizations can reduce reliance on spreadsheets and other disconnected planning tools while keeping scheduling and assignment activity connected to the GMP system of record.

Make Smarter Scheduling Decisions with AI-Enabled Recommendations

Building on the new Resource Planning & Scheduling experience, Smart Scheduling introduces an intelligent recommendation layer that helps planners identify the right technicians for work based on similar work history and current capacity.

Smart Scheduling uses operational history already captured in RAM to recommend technicians who have experience with similar assets or work types while also considering workload to help create more balanced schedules and reduce the risk of overbooking.

This recommendation-assisted approach reduces the time planners spend manually reviewing work history, technician availability, and assignments one record at a time. It also helps organizations preserve valuable scheduling knowledge that might otherwise reside primarily with experienced planners or technicians.

Importantly for regulated operations, Smart Scheduling keeps people in control. Recommendations provide planners with an intelligent starting point, while final scheduling decisions remain with the planner and can reflect site-specific procedures and operational priorities.

Apply Risk-Based Approvals to Focus Review Where It Matters

The Summer release also introduces risk-based approval routing, enabling organizations to determine approval requirements based on defined conditions rather than applying the same review process to every record.

Routine, lower-risk changes can move through workflows with less administrative handling, while records meeting higher-risk criteria can receive additional scrutiny. This helps organizations shorten approval cycles, focus reviewer time on higher-risk activities, and establish a consistent, documented rationale for how records are routed for review.

By more precisely matching approval effort to risk, organizations can reduce unnecessary administrative burden while maintaining the governance and control required in regulated manufacturing environments.

Capture More Complete Work Plan Results

The Summer release expands RAM Work Plan Execution with support for text-based results in addition to numeric values.

Maintenance, calibration, and inspection procedures often require technicians to capture qualitative results such as pass/fail outcomes, observations, or equipment conditions. These results can now be entered directly within the appropriate work plan field, with RAM handling calculations based on the applicable value type.

This enables organizations to bring information that may have previously been captured on paper forms, in comment fields, or in separate spreadsheets directly into the RAM system of record. Once captured as structured work plan data, these results can be queried, trended, and reported alongside other asset and operational information.

Accelerate Everyday Operations Across RAM

The Summer release also delivers significant performance improvements across many of the core operations technicians, planners, and other RAM users perform throughout the day.

Twenty frequently used operations are approximately 50% faster on average, including creating work requests, signing into RAM, and opening and instantiating work plan templates.

While each interaction may represent seconds saved, the impact compounds across high-volume activities performed repeatedly across shifts, teams, and manufacturing sites. The result is a faster, more responsive user experience that reduces time spent interacting with the system and allows teams to spend more time executing maintenance, calibration, and reliability work.

“The Summer release is about helping our customers apply their resources more precisely—whether that means assigning the right technician to the right work, focusing review effort based on risk, or eliminating unnecessary time from everyday processes,” said Judy Fainor, Chief Technology Officer at Blue Mountain. “By combining resource planning with intelligent recommendations and deeper workflow capabilities, we’re helping maintenance and calibration teams make better decisions and execute work more efficiently while maintaining the control and traceability required in GMP operations.”

Advancing Intelligent GMP Asset Management

The Summer 2026 release reflects Blue Mountain’s continued investment in applying automation and intelligence to the specific challenges of regulated asset management.

By connecting resource planning, intelligent technician recommendations, risk-based workflows, richer execution data, and faster platform performance within a single GMP-ready platform, RAM helps life sciences manufacturers move from simply managing work to making more informed decisions about how that work should be planned and executed.

Smart Scheduling demonstrates this approach by using technician work history and capacity already available in RAM to assist planners in making faster, more consistent assignment decisions—without replacing human judgment or established site procedures.

About Blue Mountain

Blue Mountain is the leader in enterprise asset management for Life Sciences. For over 35 years, Blue Mountain has delivered innovative, high-quality solutions that ensure regulatory compliance, improve operational efficiency, and optimize equipment performance. Trusted by more than 450 life sciences companies, the Blue Mountain cloud platform supports end-to-end GMP asset management—from calibration and maintenance to validation and analytics. Blue Mountain is backed by Five Arrows, the alternative assets arm of Rothschild & Co., and Accel-KKR and is headquartered in State College, PA.

For more information, visit www.bluemountain.io and follow Blue Mountain on LinkedIn.

Media Contact:
Christian Rockwell
carockwell@bluemountain.io