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The Condition for Work and the Reason for Work are two fields which are used together on work orders. The Condition for Work is used to identify the state or condition of an asset in order for work to take place. For example, the asset can be running, stopped, isolated or it requires a shutdown…

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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…
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…
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…

Learn about the applications in the Resources, Planning, Safety and Preventive Maintenance modules.
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…

Learn about the applications in the Assets module
Superseded by https://maximosecrets.com/2024/04/16/maximo-manage-modules/ Service Level Module Application Description Service Level Agreements A service level agreement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…
Superseded by https://maximosecrets.com/2024/04/16/maximo-manage-modules/ Preventive Maintenance Module Application Description Preventive Maintenance The Preventive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…
Superseded by https://maximosecrets.com/2024/04/16/maximo-manage-modules/ 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.…
Superseded by https://maximosecrets.com/2024/04/16/maximo-manage-modules/ 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…
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?
A Person Group is a collection of people and is used in various places throughout Maximo but was originally created to support Workflow.