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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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Work Order Tracking – Assignments Miscellany

Contents This is the fourth in a series of articles on the Assignments tab of the Work Order Tracking application. In the first article – Simple Work Assignments in Work Order Tracking – I showed that you could use the Assignments tab to dispatch a labor to a work order without using a Job Plan…
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Work Order Tracking – Assignments with Work Zones

Contents This is the third of a series of articles on the Assignments tab of the Work Order Tracking application. In the first article – Simple Work Assignments in Work Order Tracking – I showed that you could use the Assignments tab to dispatch a labor to a work order without using a Job Plan…
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Work Order Tracking – Assignments without Work Zones

Contents In the article – Simple Work Assignments in Work Order Tracking – I showed that you could use the Assignments tab to dispatch a labor to a work order without using a Job Plan or using the Plans tab of the application. You can find the article here: http://maximosecrets.com/2020/11/30/simple-work-assignments-in-work-order-tracking/ In this second of a…
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Simple Work Assignments in Work Order Tracking

Contents Work assignments are made in the Assignments tab of Work Order Tracking application and require either a Labor or Crew. The Responsibility section found at the bottom of the main Work Order tab should be considered as the “ownership” of the work order and requires a Person, and not a Labor record, it should…
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Labor

Contents A Labor record must reference a Person record but we will see later that you can create a Person record from the Labor application. But why do we have both in Maximo? A Labor record is used with work order assignments, a labor may be assigned to a crew position, so a Labor record…
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Graphical Resource View (3) – Miscellaneous

Contents This is the last of three articles on the Graphical Resource View application. I am assuming you have read the first two which you can find here: Labor http://maximosecrets.com/2020/10/20/graphical-resource-view-1-labor/ Crews http://maximosecrets.com/2020/11/19/graphical-resource-view-2-crews/ This article will be a mixed bag including a deeper dive into the toolbar settings and some configuration of the application. We will…
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Graphical Resource View (2) – Crews

Contents The Graphical Resource View application has been designed to allow you to graphically enter and modify availability records for labor and crews. This is a graphical method of handling similar functionality to the two actions Modify Person Availability and Modify Crew Availability in the People and Crews applications respectively. This article will focus on…
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Crews (2 of 3) – Crew Work Groups

Crew Work Groups are used to limit what crews can be assigned to work; a crew can belong to a crew work group. A work order can inherit its crew work group from a Preventive Maintenance record or a Job Plan and when you make an assignment the available crews are those that belong to…
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Crews (1 of 3) – Defining Crews

The Crews application is too large for one article and so I will split it between: Defining Crews (this article) Crew Work Groups Assigning Labor and Tool Assets to Crews. I am also aiming to write other articles on the Graphical Crew Management application which is used in the daily shuffle of labor between crews,…
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Crew Types

Crews originated in Maximo for Utilities and was introduced in Maximo Scheduler 7.5.1 and then rolled into core Maximo as part of Maximo 7.6. A crew is a group of Labor and Tool Assets that work together to complete work order assignments. A crew has one or more positions with required craft and skill levels…
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