Application

Description

Configuration Change Designer (Nuc)

Locations, assets and configuration items can be subject to change control. This application identifies the attributes, including classification attributes, which are under configuration control, and whether a change in value will require change approval and/or will cause a change to the revision of the location, asset or configuration item.

Changes (Nuc)

Changes requiring engineering approval including configuration changes can be planned, approved and executed using the Changes application. A change is a class of work order and inherits a similar set of functionalities to that available in other work order based applications. A change may be implemented on one or more related work orders, or on a release.

Releases (Nuc)

A release has similar functionalities to a change and is also involved in the planning, approval and execution of changes requiring engineering approval. A release is another class of work order. A release might be used to implement multiple changes, perhaps during an outage or shutdown.

Application

Description

Purchase Contracts

Used to create the contract and contract lines for purchase, price and blanket contracts with vendors. Contracts have a start and end date and can be revised. Items and services have an agreed upon price. A release purchase order can be created against a blanket contract.

Lease/Rental Contracts

A lease/rental contract is an agreement with a vendor where there is a payment schedule covering the lease or rental of one or more assets of a certain item or tool type for a period of time. Each contract line is for one item which must be defined as rotating. The asset can be purchased or returned at the end of the lease period.

Labor Rate Contracts

A labor rate contract has no contract lines but instead one or more craft and skill levels with their associated rates. Outside labor from the vendor is then associated with a craft and skill level. Labor time is recorded on a work order.

Master Contracts

A master contract is defined for a particular vendor and contains terms and conditions which apply to all the contracts defined against the master contract.

Warranty Contracts

There are two types, warranty and service. Service contracts are used to maintain one or more assets for a fixed fee or a set of payments. The contract lines are of type service, a standard service allows you to reference a service item. Warranty contracts can be used to track warranty information for locationsA physical place where assets exist and where work can be performed. More and assets by time or meter.

Terms and Conditions (Nuc)

A single page application used to define a library of terms and conditions that are used on contracts, purchasing and on items. Records are identified as quality, commercial or technical terms or conditions.

Application

Description

Currency Codes

A single page application used to define a currency code and its description. A currency code must be defined before you can define an organization, an organization can have two base currencies.

Exchange Rates

An exchange rate is defined between two currencies for a particular organization. An exchange rate has an active date and an expiration date.

Chart of Accounts

Used to define the structure, component values and valid component value combinations that are used as General Ledger (GL) codes throughout Maximo. These are defined for each organization. Financial periods and validation options are also defined in this application.

Cost Management

Used for project cost accounting separate from general ledger based fields. A project can exist in a hierarchy and can have multiple tasks. A work order can reference a project task and hence can collect costs against a project.

Budget Reporting

Used to define budget lines for GL components, GL accounts, locations, and assets, and then to determine how the estimate, commitment and actuals are calculated against the budget line.

Application

Description

Object Structures

An object structure is the common data layer that the integration framework components use for sending and receiving data. An object structure consists of one or more related business objects that define the content of an integration message. The objects are linked together using relationships. Objects structures are used in integration, reports and migration manager.

Publish Channels

A publish channel is used for outbound interfaces or the export of data through the integration framework. A publish channel uses the schema created from the associated object structure.

Invocation Channels

An invocation channel provides Maximo with the ability to call an external system and process the responses. The integration is a synchronous Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) interface and the invocation channel is called from an action in a workflow process, escalation or user interface control.

Enterprise Services

An enterprise service is used for inbound interfaces or the import of data through the integration framework.  The message content is based on the schema of the associated object structure.

Web Services Library

A web service can be created in the integration framework to allow external systems to send messages or queries to the Maximo database. Web services can be based on an object structure an enterprise service or there are a set of standard services for objects like asset, ticket, work order, item, etc. The web service schema and

Web Service Description Language (WSDL) files can be generated from this application and the xml data for each operation and response xml can be viewed.

End Points

An end point and its associated handler routes outbound messages to an external system. The combination of an end point and handler specifies the transport protocol to use, such as HTTP or web service, and provides the communication data required to reach the destination, such as a URL. End points and handlers are used for outbound integration only.

External Systems

An external system is the system to which data is sent or received. Publish channels and enterprise services are linked to the external system in this application. JMS queues are configured through this application.

Logical Management Operations

Logical management operations are used to identify the actions that an integration module supports, for example, get status, deploy software. They may be used during change and release processes to automate system processes through an operational management product (OMP). Most often used by IBM Control Desk to communicate with other Tivoli products.

Integration Modules

Integration modules are used by a process management product (PMP) to invoke an external operational management product (OMP). This application is where you link the logical management operations to the OMP. Most often used by IBM Control Desk to communicate with other Tivoli products.

Launch in Context

A launch entry record provides the ability to open the console of an external application from within Maximo either in the same or a different browser session. The external system must be enabled for the web and support the land in context feature. The launch entry can be linked to a record in the action menu, a hyperlink or a button of a Maximo application. The launch entry can pass data as parameters in the url calling the external application.

Message Tracking

The Message Tracking application tracks and displays the processing history of queue based publish channel and enterprise service messages. When you use the Message Tracking application, you can determine which messages are flagged with an error. You then can select a failed message and go to the Message Reprocessing application to take appropriate action to correct erroneous data. Enabled message tracking will also write processed messages to the database. Message tracking functions are set up on the associated publish channel or enterprise service.

Message Reprocessing

The Message Reprocessing application allows you to view the integration messages that have been flagged with an error, modify and reprocess the message, change the status or delete the record.

OSLC Providers

Maximo can be configured as an OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) consumer where UI-based interactions could be configured between Maximo and an OSLC provider application, for example to link Maximo to Rational Team Concert. OSLC allows users to share and update data between products or to query data.

OSLC Resources

Business objects are made available as OSLC resources. The consumer application can query, create, update, or delete these resources in the provider application. OSLC resources are implemented using object structures.

JSON Resources

This application is part of the REST API framework and is used to define the data resource of an external system whose data is shared with Maximo by using a federated MBO.

JSON Mapping

This application is used for mapping the attributes of a JSON message to the attributes in a Maximo Object Structure.

Notifications

Notifications are used to communicate the status of your assets. In the Notifications application, you can create, update, or delete notifications. In the Work Center, you can manage notifications and your subscriptions to notifications.

Application

Description

Create Interaction

This is the application used to create an interaction. An interaction can start a web service and send data to it from an application. The interaction can then display data returned from the web service and save this data to the Maximo database. This application creates an interaction using a wizard approach.

Interactions

After the interaction has been created it can be reviewed, modified, and deleted from the Interactions application.

Application

Description

Item Master (Nuc)

The Item Master application is used to define material items and items that are used as a reference point for rotating assets. Items may have a parent or children and collectively known as an item assembly structure (IAS). The IAS can be applied to assets or locations to create a hierarchy. Items may be stocked in storerooms as part of inventory records, they may exist as kits of items. Items belong to an item set and can be shared across multiple organizations that share that item set. The application is extended to identify whether the purchase of the item requires a qualified vendor and to include technical terms and conditions.

Service Items

Service items are another type of item, services are not held in storerooms. These standard services can be requested on work orders and ordered through the purchasing applications, there may be a standard price for the service as part of a contract.

Tools

Tools are the third type of item, tools can be held in storerooms, issued and returned. Tool items can also be set as rotating allowing tool assets to be created and tracked. Tools are charged to work orders using an hourly rate. Tool items are added to storerooms from this application.

Stocked Tools

The Stocked Tools application is where tools are held in storerooms and where balances of the tool exist. This is the application from which you issue, return and transfer tools between storerooms or look for availability of a tool item across storerooms. For rotating tools you can see the whereabouts of the tool assets.

Inventory (Nuc)

The Inventory application is where material items exist in storerooms with their balances and reorder points. Reservations can be reviewed and items issued and returned. Consignment stock from a vendor can also be held. This application is used for reordering of stocked items or creating orders for non-stocked items.

Inventory Usage

Items and tools can be issued, returned and transferred between storerooms using an inventory usage document which has a status and which could be used in a workflow process. The inventory usage document provides capability for both staging of multiple items prior to shipment and processing of the shipment receipt through the Shipment Receiving application. The application is useful for inter storeroom logistics.

Shipment Receiving

The Shipment Receiving application is for the receiving of items and tools into a storeroom transferred from another storeroom via an inventory usage document. Items can be transferred between storerooms in the same site, across sites and across organizations. Inspection and receipt of assets can be part of the receiving process. After receipt balances are adjusted in the destination storeroom.

Condition Codes

A single page application for defining condition codes. Material items defined in the Item Master application can exist with multiple condition codes and can be held in a storeroom with balances held at the condition code level. An item with a condition code while not new may still have a cost value for charging purposes and can be issued to a work order.

Storerooms

The application used for creating storerooms and setting up various related GL accounts. A storeroom is a type of location. There is a view of the items held in the storeroom including cost and balance information.

Issues and Transfers

An application which is an alternative to the Inventory Usage application and which may be used by a storeman for issuing, returning and transferring items between storerooms, particularly if those storerooms exist within the same physical location. Many clients would now use the Inventory Usage application and the Shipment Receiving application for receipt of items at a destination storeroom.