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Hazards on Item Master

This is the final part in a series of five articles that will provide a deep dive into the Safety module of core Maximo. In the first part we examined Hazards and Precautions, which is relevant to this article. You can find it here: Hazards and Precautions You may have noticed that in the Item…
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Lock Out / Tag Out

This is the second part in a series of five articles that will provide a deep dive into the Safety module of core Maximo. In the first part we examined Hazards and Precautions. You can find it here: Hazards and Precautions The Safety module is a sub-module of the Planning module. Following our review of…
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Hazards and Precautions

Contents This is the first in a series of five articles that will provide a deep dive into the Safety module of core Maximo. This series will include: You may have found your way here from the article Safety Module Overview, which also contains entity diagrams of the safety module and the safety tables/objects on…
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Crews (3 of 3) – Assigning Labor and Tool Assets to Crews

This is the third article in the series on the Crews application, it will focus on Labor and Tool Assignments. There is another series of three articles which looks at the Crew Assignment Status dialog which we will briefly discuss in this article, and to see how that dialog worked we had to make Labor…
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Crew Assignment Status (3) – Required Tools

This is the third part in a deep dive of the Crew Assignment Status action which is found in the Crews application. This article focuses on the Required Tools table window. Required Tools – Summary Required Tools is based on object AMCREWTOOLSQ and the Requirement Status has the following statuses: OK – Tool Requirements Met NOT…
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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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