Month: March 2015

SUBMITTED BY CHRIS KEPNER ON WED, 12/21/2011 Within IT organizations it is important to ensure the right people are informed whenever a change to a Configuration Item is planned. Maximo not only provides a topology view of a given CI and those…

SUBMITTED BY DEX OSBORNE ON WED, 12/21/2011 Recently, a system I was working in was not running some expected Maximo functionality during an inbound integration. This was being caused by disabled settings in the MXCOLLAB. In certain cases, it may be necessary…

SUBMITTED BY COURTNEY BLALOCK ON WED, 12/21/2011 Q: I need most Maximo users to be able to set the priority of an Asset when creating new assets. However, this field needs to be unchangeable once set. How do I accomplish this? A: A powerful…

Continuing with the theme we discussed in our September newsletter, this month the topic for the maintenance tip will be about work priority.  Prioritizing maintenance work is a very common challenge for maintenance organizations.  Everyone knows that if we ask the user to prioritize…

SUBMITTED BY COURTNEY BLALOCK ON FRI, 10/28/2011 Q: How are services entered on the Actuals tab of a work Order? A: To capture the full costs of a work order, companies might include service costs by either adding them to the Services sub-tab on…

SUBMITTED BY BOB RICHARDSON ON FRI, 10/28/2011 Maximo provides a powerful framework for integrating applications and exposing data to external systems for consumption. A query web service is one component of this framework that is especially useful for sharing information. The query…

SUBMITTED BY DON PEER ON FRI, 10/28/2011 The more you use Maximo, the more valuable data is in the system. Users want reports to view and analyze that data. What if there was a way for Maximo users to generate their own…

SUBMITTED BY SCOTT YATES ON FRI, 10/28/2011 The concept behind non-intrusive, inspection-based PMs is that you can perform them more often at a cheaper cost without breaking into your equipment or systems and potentially identify failure conditions in advance of breakdowns. But…

SUBMITTED BY JOHN ACTON ON FRI, 09/30/2011 The Maximo Start Center is a great feature to distribute information to the end user of your organization. The Bulletin Board application is used to create, broadcast, and view messages in an electronic board. When…

SUBMITTED BY EDIADMIN ON FRI, 09/30/2011 This month’s maintenance tip is about “using the right tool for the job.”  This is a phrase that is heard a lot in maintenance circles.  In the current maintenance world where automation and computers have become so…