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Maximo Secrets
IBM Maximo has a very large functional footprint and over 5+ years and hundreds of articles MaximoSecrets has been diving deep and revealing the hidden secrets of this top performing Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system. Now its author, Andrew Jeffery, with over 25 years of experience with Maximo will provide this knowledge in short episodes with links to the articles he has written so that you can dive deeper.
Learn about time based Preventive Maintenance, a first step before meter-based PMs, PM hierarchies, and PM Forecasting which we will cover later.
Learn about Master PMs a template for frequency based Preventive Maintenance (PM) records. We also consider Master PMs used with Asset Templates.
Learn about two similar applications Routes and Collections and when you would use one or the other.
Learn about Job Plans, the template for a work order. Sorry, there's no room to squeeze in Dynamic Job Plans.
Learn about one of the first steps in Planning and Scheduling Maturity, availability. Calendars and Shifts are defined before modifying the work periods to define People/Crew Availability.
Learn about Crew Types, Crews and how Crew Work Groups fit in. If multiple technicians or engineers normally work together then crews are used, it is not just for utilities.
Learn about three of the applications in the Resources module, Crafts, Labor, and Qualifications and how they work together.
Learn about two of the applications in the Resources module which are considered core data and likely to be used by all Maximo clients, People and Person Groups.
Learn about the Relationships application when not used in conjunction with linear assets. Learn how relationships can be added between an asset and another asset or a location.
Learn that while locations and assets share a common set of values, how you might modify this. Learn the differences between changing status on locations and assets, and what happens to the asset status if it is moved between sites.
Learn about Failure Codes and Failure Hierarchies and techniques for creating a hierarchy. Learn about Failure Reporting on a work order and settings that can affect this.
Learn about changing the asset state, reporting downtime, or modifying downtime history. Learn about the differences with reporting downtime on a work order and some settings that effect this.
Learn about how you can move and modify one or more assets, or how you can swap one asset with another including some limitations.
Learn about the various associations that can be made with Locations and Assets: Users and Custodians, Services, Inspection Forms, Work Zones, and Time Zones.
Learn about the differences between asset subassemblies and spare parts and how spare parts can be added automatically. Learn why you might use the Assets action Issue Items From Storeroom.
Learn about Location and Asset Classifications and Specifications. Learn about the inheritance of Location and Asset Specification values from an Item Specification and how to control this.
Learn what a rotating asset is and isn't. Learn about the features of rotating assets, and how some of these features are also applicable to locations.
Learn about Asset Templates and how they can be applied to assets or used to generate assets, including the generation of rotating assets.
Learn how meters are applied to locations and assets. Learn about meter readings and the reset/replace options for continuous meters.
Learn about the meter types and how meters can be grouped including the calculation options for continuous meters. Learn about Condition Monitoring points and how they are connected to meters.
Learn about the Service Address application and how it can be applied to a location or asset, or how it can be inherited from the asset or location hierarchy. Learn about the Service Address Options found in the Organizations application.
Learn that there are several location types, not just OPERATING, and an operating location can belong to multiple systems and can have multiple parents in a Network System.