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  • Maximo Mobile – Technician (1)

    Maximo Mobile – Technician (1)

    Contents This is the third of a series of articles to discover the capability of the new Maximo Mobile applications. The system I am using has Maximo Mobile 8.3 installed, this is the November 2021 release, in System Information it indicates IBM Maximo Application Framework 8.6.0.0 Build 20211012-1522 DB Build V7600-18. I am initially using a desktop…

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  • Maximo Mobile – Work Approvals (2)

    Maximo Mobile – Work Approvals (2)

    Contents This article is the second part into a review of the Maximo Mobile Work Approvals application. The first part you can find here, it is where you should start – http://maximosecrets.com/2022/01/19/maximo-mobile-work-approvals-1/ This is part of a series of articles to discover the capability of the new Maximo Mobile applications. The system I am using has…

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  • Maximo Mobile – Work Approvals (1)

    Maximo Mobile – Work Approvals (1)

    Contents This is the second of a series of articles to discover the capability of the new Maximo Mobile applications. The system I am using has Maximo Mobile 8.3 installed, this is the November 2021 release, in System Information it indicates IBM Maximo Application Framework 8.6.0.0 Build 20211012-1522 DB Build V7600-18. I am initially using a desktop…

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  • Maximo Mobile – Service Requests

    Maximo Mobile – Service Requests

    Contents This is the start of a series of blog posts to discover the capability of the new Maximo Mobile applications. The system I am using has Maximo Mobile 8.3 installed, this is the November 2021 release, in System Information it indicates IBM Maximo Application Framework 8.6.0.0 Build 20211012-1522 DB Build V7600-18. I am initially using a…

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  • KPI Templates

    KPI Templates

    As the name suggests a KPI Template is a way of generating multiple KPIs linked to the KPI Template. The KPI Templates application will be found in the Administration module and KPI sub-module. In the MAXDEMO database there are a couple of good examples, we will look at Template 1001 – Schedule Compliance of Completed…

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  • KPI Viewer, KPI Graph/List and Create KPI

    KPI Viewer, KPI Graph/List and Create KPI

    This is the second article on Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in Maximo and follows on from the KPI Manager article, which you can find here – http://maximosecrets.com/2022/01/11/kpi-manager/. This article reviews the KPI Viewer application, the Start Center’s KPI Graph and KPI List, the Create KPI action found in most applications and a Cron Task that will…

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  • KPI Manager

    KPI Manager

    The KPI Manager application is used to create and maintain records that provide operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). I’ve deliberately described these as operational KPIs and not business KPIs. They will help to determine how Maximo is being used and the results can be tracked over time and displayed on a Start Center.  Each KPI…

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  • Escalations – Advanced Topics

    Escalations – Advanced Topics

    Contents In this article we will look at the actions found in the Escalations application and a number of advanced topics so that you understand the use of the Repeat field, the Calendars/Shifts on the escalation and escalation point, and how communications are written to the Communication Log. We will also review how to determine…

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  • Escalations

    Escalations

    An escalation is a background task that can monitor an object in Maximo and for the records where the condition evaluates to true it can notify you through a Communication Template or it can perform an Action. There is an Escalations application which is the focus of this article. Escalations are also embedded in a…

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  • Actions

    Actions

    Contents Actions are used in Workflow and Escalations; they will also be found in Service Level Agreements (SLA) as there is an Escalation tab. This article will discuss the Action application and the standard action records provided in Maximo, the practical use of these actions will be followed up with articles on SLAs, Escalations and…

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  • Communication Templates

    Communication Templates

    Contents A communication template is a template for an outbound email and is used in Workflow, Escalations and in applications through the Create Communication action. The Communication Templates application will be found in the Administration module and in the System Configuration – Platform Configuration module. List Tab There are a variety of existing Communication Templates…

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  • Roles

    Roles

    Contents A role is a pointer that resolves to a person or team, a person group. For example, the person who reports a service request, the buyer of a purchase order, the team responsible for safety, etc. Once it has found a person or team Maximo can derive an email address and use this in…

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  • Ticket Communications (3)

    Ticket Communications (3)

    Contents This is the last of the three articles on Ticket Communications and will focus on the Communication Templates and Roles provided for Tickets in the out of the box Maximo system. The illustrations will show two of the Global Ticket Communication Templates in action, one for Incidents and one for Problems, which can be…

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  • Ticket Communications (2)

    Ticket Communications (2)

    Contents This is the second article of three reviewing the functionality behind the Create Communication action on the ticket-based applications. The first article introduced the Create Communication dialog and the three tabs that you get when you open the To field’s Select Value to look up a recipient of the email. In the article we…

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  • Ticket Communications (1)

    Ticket Communications (1)

    Contents This is the first of three articles on Ticket Communications, and they focus on the Create Communication action in the Ticket based applications. The articles do discuss a bit about Roles and Communication Templates but only to see how they are applied, there is scope for other articles on those two applications. To help…

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