Maximo Secrets

Qualifications

Contents The Crafts application defines the maintenance disciplines and competency levels, referred to as Skill Levels in Maximo. Qualifications define the specialist skills and certifications that a person possesses that may help to decide between one Labor record or another when assigning work. A qualification can also be a requirement to use a tool or…
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Crafts

Contents Craft records are used to define disciplines that one or more employees or contractors possess, and which are used in the planning of work. Some traditional examples of crafts are Mechanic, Electrician, Plumber, Carpenter, but crafts are used in every industry, for example in IT, Deskside Support, Service Desk Tier 1, Service Desk Tier…
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Graphical Resource View (1) – Labor

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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People – Modify Person Availability

Contents The Calendar does not define the availability of a labor or crew alone. With its shifts the calendar defines the work periods that would be considered working time from other periods in a day or week which would be considered non-working time. The calendar is designed to be shared between multiple labor or crews,…
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Calendars

Contents In Maximo calendars are used on labor and crew resources, and on locations and assets to indicate operational periods. They are used with Service Level Agreements and there are also some hidden references to a calendar which you might discover if you attempted to delete a calendar. Calendars are fundamental to the Maximo Scheduler…
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Maximo Scheduler Overview

An overview of the Maximo Scheduler applications relevant to Maximo 7.6.1.2/3 (Scheduler 7.6.8).
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Quiz Answers – Condition Enabled Items -2

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…
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Quiz – How well do you know Maximo? – Condition Enabled Items – 2

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…
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Quiz Answers – Condition Enabled Items

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…
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Quiz – How well do you know Maximo? – Condition Enabled Items

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…
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Quiz Answers – Kit Items – 2

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…
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Quiz – How well do you know Maximo? Kit Items – 2

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…
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Quiz Answers – Kit Items

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…
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Quiz – How well do you know Maximo? – Kit Items

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…
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Quiz Answers – Rotating Items – 2

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…
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