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IBM® Maximo® Application Suite, also known as Maximo 8.0, not only streamlines installation and administration, it also unifies your operations, bridging teams across the enterprise. Most importantly, it helps you maintain resiliency and business continuity – even under rapidly changing or disruptive conditions. IBM® Maximo® Application Suite, also known as Maximo 8.0, not only streamlines installation and administration, it also unifies your operations, bridging teams across the enterprise. Most importantly, it helps you maintain resiliency and business continuity – even under rapidly changing or disruptive conditions. What are you looking for from ...
I have sat in on numerous presentations about the potential ROI for companies managing their assets using Maximo. One of the particular areas of interest for me is usage of Asset Warranty (AW) tracking and cost savings potential for organizations that implement this process within the native Maximo applications. As I see it, some of the benefits that can be realized by implementing a comprehensive asset warranty management solution within your organization may include: the ability to recover or avoid maintenance costs by ensuring that in-warranty repairs are filed with the vendor for reimbursement or fulfillment, ability to use historical claims records for ...
From IBM Maximo version 7.6.0.2 onwards, IBM has provided a new REST APIs. The new REST APIs for Maximo is a rewrite of the existing REST APIs that were released after Maximo Asset Management version 7.1. These new APIs are also known as REST/JSON APIs or OSLC APIs and provide multiple benefits. Authentication of these APIs depends on the kind of deployment that has been done on Maximo. There are 2 kind of authentication which Maximo provides- Maximo Native authentication LDAP based authentication LDAP based authentication can be subdivided further into 2 types of configuration- a. Basic <login-config> based b. Form <login-config> ...
This article will walk a Maximo administrator through the steps necessary to send a purchase order by email to a vendor as an attachment. It is a common requirement by customers to be able to automatically send the PO to vendors through email. Some of the benefits of doing this are: Standardize the way that approved purchase orders are communicated to vendors. A common template can be used for the email subject and body, as well as a common workflow for when the communication is sent. Reduce the time taken by procurement agents in generating reports, saving them locally, finding appropriate contact information, and typing up an email. When Maximo sends ...
Most of us who have worked with Maximo over a long time, likely have a list of Maximo “pet peeves”. As much as we love Maximo, there is always room for some improvement, just like with any software application. However, one advantage Maximo has over many other applications is that it’s easy to configure Maximo based on your business needs. Configurations are performed using standard Maximo functionality without the use of external programming tools. Configurations are very likely to be supported in newer versions of Maximo and are much easier to maintain for Maximo administrators. Configurations also do not require Java programming or making modifications to ...
I won’t get into a lengthy discussion about why you should use SSL to secure browser traffic. I’ll simply offer that your Maximo environment, especially if the environment can be accessed over the public internet, should be secured. Here are a few reasons: SSL Encrypts Sensitive Information SSL Provides Trust and Authentication SSL Can Provide Compliance in certain Industries The disadvantages are that it costs money to obtain and verify a certificate from a Certificate Authority, and it takes some time to configure. Hopefully, this blog post will help to reduce the amount of time necessary to configure SSL with Maximo. Please note that you can ...
You’ve taken the step of securing your Maximo environment by implementing SSL in your WebSphere environment. However, just because you’ve implemented the SSL configurations doesn’t mean users must use them. How do you force users to append that little “S” to the back of the HTTP when they navigate to Maximo? There are passive options, to be sure, but why not force users to the HTTPS address? If the Maximo environment is open to the internet do you really want your data passing through un-encrypted? One method of forcing SSL/HTTPS is by using Apache’s Rewrite Module which we’ll describe below. This way, if a user forgets to use the proper address, they ...
How much thought have you put into your Priority values on the records in your Maximo solution? Did you know you can Set Priority Preferences like how Maximo calculates priorities or response times? Maximo uses values up to 999 for Work Order and Asset/Location priorities and will use these values to calculate an overall priority for the Work Order. Making smart choices can ensure you achieve the most efficient and reliable schedule for your resources and equipment. If a Work Order is created manually in the Work Order Tracking application, you can specify the value in the Priority field. Work Orders generated from the Preventive Maintenance will inherit ...
Did you know you can now assign a Depreciation Schedule to an Asset in Maximo? This has been a highly requested feature and is now available in Maximo 7.6.0.3. In order to set up a Depreciation Schedule for an asset, it must have a starting cost and salvage amount prescribed. To make the process easier, both values can be defined during the process of creating the depreciation schedule. So, let’s get started. We are going to look at our Asset 11400, a Boiler. Once we are on the Asset page, scroll down the left side of the screen to the More Actions list You will see you now have the option to select Depreciation Schedule From the ...
Maximo 7.6 offers many tools to enhance the user’s experience. One such tool is Hover Dialogs. Do you frequently rely on the Hover Dialogs in Maximo to view information about Assets, Locations, or other objects? Did you know you can add Hover Dialogs to other applications where they are useful to your team? By default, Hover Dialogs are included for Asset, Item, Person, and Work Order records. Here are five easy steps to adding Hover Dialogs to more screens. ‍ 1. Go to the System Configuration / Platform Configuration / Application Designer 2. Select the application in which the field you wish to add the Hover Dialogs ...
This is going to be the first in a series of blogs post that helps explain automation scripting in Maximo. I’ll cover what it is and why it was added to the product in this post. In future posts, I’ll focus primarily on how to utilize them to achieve different types of customization requirements but will also cover some relatively unknown functionality that exists inside of Automation Scripts, highlight the pros/cons between customization options (including non-Automation Script options), and discuss some of our best practices in building scripts. Having some coding experience will be beneficial, but I’ll try and help explain most of the code so you can understand ...
End of the Year Processing Reminders for Maximo. Maximo has a number of year to date buckets that need to be reset such as: Assets - Zero out Year to Date Costs Labor - Zero out Year to Date Labor Hours - script needed Inventory - Zero out Year to Date, 1, 2, and 3 years ago quantities Financial Periods - Make sure you have periods set for the coming year, especially if you validate Other Considerations: Tax Rates, Auto Numbers, Calendars, and Data for Integrations Budget Monitoring: Do you use Budget Monitoring? Need to get set for next year? Not using Budget Monitoring? You should be, and it is not that difficult. Start ...