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An overview of the Maximo Scheduler applications relevant to Maximo 7.6.1.2/3 (Scheduler 7.6.8).
One small topic, 10 questions on Condition Enabled Items (part 2): Q1 – Can you set the condition enabled check box on the Inventory application? Answer – No, it is always read-only and it is showing the field from the Item object. Q2 – You have a condition enabled item with 3 condition records with condition rates…
One small topic, 10 questions on Condition Enabled Items (part 2): Q1 – Can you set the condition enabled check box on the Inventory application? Q2 – You have a condition enabled item with 3 condition records with condition rates of 100, 80 and 60. The item has been added to the CENTRAL storeroom with an…
One small topic, 10 questions on Condition Enabled Items: Q1 – What is the best description for a condition enabled item? A – An item which you can monitor through measurements that may come from sensors. B – An item where balances are held at multiple condition levels and where the item’s value is set at…
One small topic, 10 questions on Condition Enabled Items: Q1 – What is the best description for a condition enabled item? A – An item which you can monitor through measurements that may come from sensors. B – An item where balances are held at multiple condition levels and where the item’s value is set at…
One small topic, 10 questions on Kit Items (Part 2): Q1 – What is the financial transaction types when I assemble a kit and when I disassemble a kit? Answer – KITMAKE and KITBREAK respectively Q2 – When I assemble a kit in which tab of the View Inventory Transactions action will I find the financial transaction…
One small topic, 10 questions on Kit Items (Part 2): Q1 – What is the financial transaction types when I assemble a kit and when I disassemble a kit? Q2 – When I assemble a kit in which tab of the View Inventory Transactions action will I find the financial transaction for the kit item? Q3…
One small topic, 10 questions on Kit Items: Q1 – What is the best description for a kit item? A – Items used with a commodity group of PPE or CLOTHING B – A kit of parts on a rotating asset C – A set of items which are grouped together so that it can be…
One small topic, 10 questions on Kit Items (Part 1): Q1 – What is the best description for a kit item? A – Items used with a commodity group of PPE or CLOTHING B – A kit of parts on a rotating asset C – A set of items which are grouped together so that it…
One small topic, 10 questions on Rotating Items (part 2): Q1 – What happens when you update the specification attribute values on an item marked as rotating? Answer – The attribute value is updated on all locations and assets that reference the rotation item and that have the same attribute. This is one of the characteristics of…
One small topic, 10 more questions on Rotating Items (part 2): Q1 – What happens when you update the specification attribute values on an item marked as rotating? Q2 – Can you change the classification of an asset that references a rotating item? Q3 – What is the purpose of the two YORN fields on the…

In the Item Master application, we had recently created item AJE11 as part of showing how the item’s description is generated using the classification and the attribute values that form the item’s specification. As you can see, we never added the item to a storeroom, the Storerooms tab shows no records. The action “Add Items…

Contents When an Item is classified the description of the item can be generated. The same item can have multiple secondary languages. The question arises, whether the description in the secondary languages is also generated and what is its format? I have split the article into two, the first focuses on the description generation, the…
One small topic, 10 questions on Rotating Items: Q1 – All these descriptions are true, to some extent, but which is the best description of a rotating item? A – An inventory item where the balance in the storeroom is tracked individually as serialised assets. B – An inventory item with moving parts that rotate around…

The action to “Issue Items from Storeroom” was added to the Assets application because in some industries, particularly in the IT industry, activity is performed in the context of an asset, a PC, laptop or server. The IT technician who is installing software wants to be able to issue items from a software storeroom, while…