Lost in translation in the Maximo Asset Management 75 Information Center
Do
you ever feel like Bill Murray or Scarlet Johansson in the film Lost
in Translation and consider the Maximo Asset Management 7.5
Information Center your equivalent Toyko? If
you use secondary languages in your product, you will notice that
regardless of whether you install a Maximo 7.5 product for the first
time or whether upgrade to a MAM 7.5 fix pack, such as 7.5.0.1 or
7.5.0.3, only the updated English content is available in the
Information Center (IC). As you navigate through your secondary
content, such as French or Japanese,... [More]
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Work Packaging with Maximo ACM for Transportation Assets
The Challenge : Planning packages of work can provide a number of challenges, particularly for transportation type assets where the dynamic nature of the assets operations means that the asset may not be where it is supposed to be!! Maintenance facilities are resourced based on carrying out a range of maintenance tasks, they know that for a given time period they will be maintaining an asset from the fleet (or a third party client) but not necessarily which specific asset it will be, to a certain extent they do not care which asset it will... [More]
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Want To Know More About Maximo Changes in View Manage Queries?
Changes in the Maximo "View Manage Queries" functionality will be explained. This article highlights the differences in the functionality. There are three new security sigoptions that have been added. These are not automatically granted. The Maximo administrator will need to explicitly enable sigoptions for users that require permission to view or edit queries from the View Manage Queries pull down under Save Query on the list tab. The first two sigoptions apply to all applications that offer this functionality. These allow... [More]
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BiLog: Understand User Requirements...Report Specifications Best Practice.
Read my mind. Have you ever muttered those words when someone asks you where the milk is ? or if there any cookies to go with that milk? Don’t try to read your user’s mind when detailing a report specification. Instead, work with your user to fully understand his report requirements, which you can then translate into a deliverable report specification. As noted in the last BiLog entries, we have been reviewing the best practices Of report specification development which include (1) Understand report capabilities (2) Understand user... [More]
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Creating Workflow Process
Use the Workflow Designer application to create, view, modify, and delete Workflow process records that reflect your business processes. An active Workflow process revision defines the different paths that a record can take as it moves through the business process. The process also defines the actions and notifications that should take place at various points in the process. You create a workflow process by inserting nodes and connection lines on a Workflow canvas. Each Workflow process includes start and stop nodes. Start and stop nodes do... [More]
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A Q&A on Telematics data in Maximo
Q. OK, so what exactly is Telematics? A. The integrated use of telecommunications and
informatics, also known as ICT (Information and Communications Technology).
More specifically it is the science of sending, receiving, and storing
information via telecommunication devices. Q. How about in plain English? A. Electronic devices on-board assets collect information
that is extracted and used in some way. Q. How about a picture? A. Q. What kind of information do telematics systems collect from... [More]
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Smarter Asset Management for the Smarter Planet
This blog entry comes to you from Willam Cheng, IBM Tivoli Vice President, Maximo Asset & Service Management Products Our Smarter Planet is composed of Smarter Infrastructures, such as Smarter Utilities, Smarter Transportation, Smarter Healthcare, and Smarter Cities, to name only a few. These increasingly intelligent systems are becoming more and more visible in our daily lives, and hold promise for improving the services we receive from our social and economic ecosystems. A Smarter Infrastructure is made of various, interrelated assets,... [More]
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BiLog: Understanding..Capabilities..Specification Best Practice
The aftermath was astonishing. An energetic team of dedicated high school students strung toilet paper from each tree branch at our house in an annual tradition celebrating seniors on their swim team . While our daughter basked in the glory of at last being a senior, I gazed at the 100’s of strands of toilet paper, and wondered ‘What will the neighbors say?’. While understanding unique traditions may make your toes twitch, understanding report capabilities is key to developing accurate and achievable report specifications. In the last... [More]
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Migration Manager Replacement Rules
Is the migration of configuration content between
your Maximo instances requiring some "assistance" in dealing with
content related errors? Are you constantly dealing with failed deployment situations
due to configuration content differences between your various Maximo instances
(e.g. Development, QA) ? If you answer yes to any of the previous questions, you might want to leverage Migration Manager Replacement Rules functionality and replace, during package deployment, invalid field values before they generate a deployment error... [More]
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How to Call Spatial Check Config Tool from Map Manager (Spatial) Application
With the IBM Maximo Spatial 7.1.1.1. and 7.5 releases, a Spatial Check Configuration Tool is available to verify the integration between Maximo Spatial and Geographic Information System (GIS). This tool will assist customer to display warnings and errors about the user installation and collect information to help IBM support investigate problems. Executing the tool From Map Manager (Spatial) Application An Menu Option was added to Map Manager (Spatial) Application Select Action Menu. Open Map Manager (Spatial) Application: Click at Go To... [More]
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