Work Management – Page 2

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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Hazards in Item/Organization Details

There are a few fields in the dialog for the action Item/Organization Details in Item Master application that you might have wondered what they are for. In this article we will discuss the Hazard field. Some items that you procure or stock in inventory are hazardous materials. The main aim then is to associate a…
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Financial Processes on Work Orders (3 of 3)

Contents This is the third and last in a series of pages that examines the financial processes for work orders and would be applicable to Work Order Tracking and Quick Reporting applications. This page focuses on Work Order Actual Tools, specifically the transactions that create TOOLTRANS records. This series has included: Each page demonstrates, using…
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Financial Processes on Work Orders (2 of 3)

Contents This is the second in a series of pages that examines the financial processes for work orders and would be applicable to Work Order Tracking and Quick Reporting applications. This page focuses on Work Order Actual Materials, specifically the transactions that create MATUSETRANS records. Direct issue Work Order Actual Material (MATRECTRANS) and Services (SERVRECTRANS)…
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Financial Processes on Work Orders (1 of 3)

Contents Financial transaction records have attributes for both the debit and credit GL accounts, the fields GLDEBITACCT and GLCREDITACCT. In Work Order Tracking application, the financial transactions occur on the Actuals tab, under the Labor, Materials, Service and Tool sub tabs. The table names happen to be LABTRANS, MATUSETRANS, SERVRECTRANS and TOOLTRANS respectively. This is…
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Maximo Application Maps (4 of 9) Work Management

The main application for work management is Work Order Tracking, this is where most work management functionality will be found. Quick Reporting allows technicians to enter the work they have performed retrospectively, it contains a subset of the functionality in Work Order Tracking. Work Order Tracking Work orders exist at the Site level. Work orders…
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Work Zones

Work Zones are used in Maximo to define areas in which locations and assets reside and in which labor and crews work. The Work Zone application will be found in the Administration – Resources sub-module, but only if you have a Scheduler license. The Work Zone object is defined at the organization level and has…
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