Maximo flow control feature allows status changes to be controlled automatically when applied to work order hierarchies such as work order tasks. You can specify the order that work order tasks are performed and blocking manual status changes from … Read More
Under WOTRACK, and making use of REMDUR field (repurposed to capture DOWNTIME hours directly on the work order record).... Assumptions: (1) There is a PRIORITIZATION scheme that says PRIORITY 1 & 3 are assets that have experienced downtime; … Read More
In a previous post, I showed how to setup a view for your audit data which is great, but what happens when you want to audit the data for Long Description of an attribute? In Maximo Database Configuration, you can enable the auditing on the … Read More
The user accidentally entered this value. Normally the Maximo screen (work order actuals or LabTrans) will capture the Starttime and Endtime and automatically populate the RegularHrs field. But sometimes you discover a zero - which means no linecost … Read More
Did you know that you can export data from Maximo based on some event automatically? Of course you did, but did you know that in Maximo 7.5 there is a new feature setting called 'event propagation'? It allows you to export data based on when a child … Read More
When Maximo limits your work order QUERY to 200 records (and you know you have maybe 2500 to edit) ..... here is a trick to grab the first 200 (or whatever value <= 200) … and then do something with that "first set of records", such as, … Read More
Tip for the Day: On the SR object there is a field titled SITEVISIT. It is not on the WORKORDER table. Many client site/industries have a process where ... in order for the work to get started, the maintenance tech must first perform a site … Read More
This is a simple modification to this tutorial here so the steps are the same. First export the LOOKUPS.xml and save it to disk. Do a search for the table with id="persongroup". All you have to do is replace that table with this: <table … Read More
Assumptions/understandings: There are many ways to “schedule work”. Smaller organizations however sometimes need simpler methods. This particular technique allows one to quickly see (-by work order count-) who is over-loaded (or not). This is … Read More
Sometimes it nice to quickly and visually get feedback on information when looking at a work order detail. There can be so many fields and tabs on a work order detail screen that it would be nice to know if the record has any work logs, or any other … Read More
