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Crew Assignment Status (2) – Required Qualifications

This is the second part in a deep dive of the Crew Assignment Status action which is found in the Crews application. This article focuses on the Required Qualifications table window. Required Qualifications – Summary Required Qualifications is based on object AMCREWQUAL and the Requirement Status has the following statuses: OK – Qualification Requirement Met NOT…
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Crew Assignment Status (1) – Required Crafts

When you make labor and tool assignments to crews you will want to verify the assignments meet the requirements of the crew on a particular day in which the crew is due to go out. There is an action Crew Assignment Status that opens a dialog with 5 table windows, three of which provide a…
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The History of Maximo Mobile

In March 2021 IBM announced the first release of IBM Maximo Mobile for EAM. You can find information about it here – https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm®-maximo®-mobile-eam-app-overview Over the years there has been several mobile applications for Maximo and IBM Maximo Mobile for EAM is the next evolution on the path to extend Maximo software to field workers using a…
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Configuring Graphical Work Week

In this article we explore adding a column to the Graphical Work Week (GWW) application, both in the work list as well as in the resource list. GWW does not support Work Zones, a pity, but you can get some way to assigning work to a labor that has the same work zone by adding…
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Non-Linear Dynamic Job Plans

Contents Introduction Dynamic Job Plans was introduced in Maximo 7.6.1.1. Many who would be asked whether Dynamic Job Plans is relevant to them would say, no, because we don’t have linear assets. Others might say that this is only used with assets. Not true on both counts, dynamic job plans can be used by every…
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Inventory Reservations

An inventory reservation is made when a work order or internal purchase order is approved or when a material requisition is submitted. The reservations can be viewed and modified from two applications, Inventory and Inventory Usage, the Add/Modify Reservations action. For individual items and tools, you may see outstanding reservations through the action View Item Availability or View Tool Availability.…
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Inventory Balances

In the Inventory and Stocked Tools applications the current balance and the available balance of the item/tool is displayed, but how are they calculated, obvious, or not so? There are several other balance records, this article explores when they are used. I will start with a Summary, the detail provides an illustration of the tests…
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Returning Items under Warranty

I was asked the other day what the process would be if I wanted to return a purchased item that was still under warranty. My answer was it depends on how long ago you made the receipt and whether it had been invoiced, but the actual process of return should be the same. Later I…
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Day Hire of Rental Tools

Somebody asked me the other day how to handle the day hire of rental tools in Maximo. You have Lease/Rental Contracts but that would be too much set-up for a one-off rental of a tool, this is after all a purchase, besides Lease/Rental Contracts work with rotating items, and hence would require the creation of…
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Graphical Work Week – Assignments

Contents This article will focus on scheduling and how to make and break assignments and will include the automatic splitting of assignments and merging split assignments. As previous articles have all focused on Labor, this article will focus more on crews, however, the majority of the article will still be relevant to those of you…
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Graphical Work Week – Resource View

Contents This is the fourth of a series of articles on the Graphical Work Week application that was introduced as part of Maximo Scheduler 7.6.8 in the summer of 2020. This article will focus on the Resource View, the lower of the two panes on the Graphical View tab. It is now 4th January 2021,…
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Graphical Work Week – Work View

Contents This is the third of a series of articles on the Graphical Work Week application that was introduced as part of Maximo Scheduler 7.6.8 in the summer of 2020. This article will focus on the Work View, the upper pair of panes on the Graphical View tab. The Work View is the top half…
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Graphical Work Week – Work Tab

Contents This is the second in a series of articles on the Graphical Work Week application. It will cover the List and Work tabs and the actions menu; it will also show how the work and resource queries result in the records shown in the Graphical View tab. List Tab The List Tab shows the…
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Graphical Work Week – Overview

Contents The Graphical Work Week application was introduced as part of Maximo Scheduler 7.6.8 in the summer of 2020. It has been modelled on the Assignment Manager application, with a split screen, work assignments on the top and labor and crew resources on the bottom. As the name implies it is a week-by-week view. This…
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Work Order Tracking – Assignments Overview

Contents There is more to Work Assignments than you may think and naturally many Maximo practitioners look at Assignments as being a product of planning work or applying a Job Plan, which of course they are. But you can plan work in the Assignments tab of the Work Order Tracking application without using Job Plans…
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