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Maximo and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

GDPR is all about the privacy of personal data and GDPR comes into force across the European Union and EEA countries on the 25th May 2018. The potential fines for failure to follow the regulations could amount to 4% of an organizations worldwide annual turnover. GDPR gives an individual the right to know what personal…
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General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR)

GDPR comes into force across the 28 EU member states and the other 3 countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) on 25th May 2018 – those three countries are Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. It replaces EU Data Protection directive and all national data protection legislation. GDPR is generally associated with the storage and processing…
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Receipt Tolerances

A receipt tolerance is applied to a PO line and during receiving if the quantity or amount exceeds the PO line quantity or amount plus the tolerance then an error message will be received. Prior to Maximo 7.5 when this function was added a warning was received if there was an over-receipt of materials or…
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Maximo Application Maps (2 of 9) Planning and Preventive Maintenance

The two primary applications involved in Planning & Preventive Maintenance are: Job Plans, a template for a work order Preventive Maintenance, a record for defining the schedule of periodic based inspections and preventive maintenance Job Plans When a job plan is applied to a work order it create a work plan. The job plan is…
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Why did IBM acquire The Weather Company?

On 28th October 2015 at the time of the announcement that IBM was to acquire The Weather Company I was an IBMer. It certainly seemed a strange acquisition, but knowing that asset deterioration and performance can be effected by weather, that the efficiency of field working and worker safety are similarly affected my reaction was…
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Maximo Application Maps (1 of 9) – Asset Management

The two primary Asset Management applications are: Locations, a place where assets are operated, stored or repaired Assets, a physical object that is managed, operated and maintained and which has a value There is a lot of functional similarity between locations and assets and understanding when you have one, or the other, or both will…
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Maximo Applications (4 of 5)

Service Level Module Application Description Service Level Agreements A service level agreement (SLA) is most commonly applied to a type of ticket or work order. An SLA can have multiple commitments and when applied to a ticket or work order these create target dates. An escalation can be set-up to monitor progress against the commitment…
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Maximo Applications (3 of 5)

Preventive Maintenance Module Application Description Preventive Maintenance The Preventive Maintenance (PM) application is used to create a template for routine maintenance or inspection of an asset, location or a set of assets defined with a route. The frequency in which the work orders are generated can be time or meter based or a mix of…
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Maximo Applications (2 of 5)

Financial Module Application Description Currency Codes A single page application used to define a currency code and its description. A currency code must be defined before you can define an organization, an organization can have two base currencies. Exchange Rates An exchange rate is defined between two currencies for a particular organization. An exchange rate…
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Maximo Applications (1 of 5)

Administration Module Application Description Sets A set is used to share data across multiple organizations. There are two types of set, item and company. Organizations This is the application where organizations and sites are defined and where there are options for how Maximo functions at system, organization and site level. An organization provides data sharing…
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Responsibilities on Job Plans, PMs and Work Orders

The responsibility fields exist on job plans, PMs and work orders but when a job plan or a PM is applied to a work order what are the defaulting rules on the work order?
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Person Groups

A Person Group is a collection of people and is used in various places throughout Maximo but was originally created to support Workflow.
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Ticket and Work Order Ownership

The responsibility for a ticket or work orders can be assigned or a Maximo user can take ownership. The owner performs an administrative function to ensure that the ticket is reviewed or investigated and the work order is executed successfully. The owner need not be the person who executes the work order. The owner of…
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Job Plan Revisions

Job Plan revisions became available with the release of Maximo 7.5 and with it the extension of the number of statuses. The initial revision number is zero. The action Revise Job Plan opens a dialogue box with the next revision number completed. A Revision Description is a mandatory attribute, it can have a long description.…
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Routes

Routes are most often used with inspections. They consist of a set of locations or assets with a sequence that defines the order in which the inspection will take place, each record in the set is known as a Route Stop. Routes can be applied directly to a work order using the action Apply Route…
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