I’m not sure how I got to work this morning.  I remember getting in my car , putting my 2 travel coffee mugs in their cup holders,  and then I pulled up to the IBM office into my favorite parking spot and walked to  my cube .  Auto Pilot?  Hmmmm….I think its time to Explore a new route to work!   On the topic of exploring, last week the OEE (Overall Equipment Effecitiveness) report was highlighted.  This under-publicized, delivered report has unique drilldown capablities, uses hidden parameters and non-standard Maximo information.    Another... [More]

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You have probably noticed more embedded user assistance in recent releases of the product. User assistance in the product helps you complete tasks where you are working. We also provide an extensive library of technical topics in the information center and lots of great interactive blog and forum content here in Service Management Connect! Did you know that you can add your own embedded content? You can even link from any content (ours or yours) to information center topics! Here's how to make these changes with Application Designer. Your... [More]

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What exactly is consist management?   In the rail industry, a group of assets (cars, locomotives, etc.) that are coupled together to form a train are often referred to as a Consist.   This may also be referred to as a Train Set. The process of assembling a collection of individual assets into a train set or consist is referred to Consist Management. What this means in terms of a Maximo process is defining the possible contents of a two level hierarchy and defining rules around these contents.   Defining the structure and the rules  ... [More]

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Smarter Infrastructure & Social Media  In the world of Industrial Equipment   Social Media has become the key aspect of how we communicate, exchange and receives information. As events happen, messages are routed in real-time all over the planet, thanks to fast cellular networks, smart phones and vibrant people of this planet. As we have learnt to adapt and embrace technology to help us be more efficient, we can use similar concepts in the world of Smarter Infrastructure. Infrastructure is getting Smarter every day, as controllers... [More]

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IBM's portifolio is a huge range of useful solutions to our working days and one of them is the IBM Tivoli Maximo Asset Manager that manages the assets of an organization during all their life cycle.  This platform has a series of add-ons to support each kind of industry and also mobile devices where the IBM Maximo Mobile Suite plays this role. This product owns an application called Mobile Data Manager where you can create queries and download the records into the device the way you wish. If you have a mobile device, you might want... [More]

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Providing logging up front is MustGather for troubleshooting in general and this entry provides the MustGather for troubleshooting email communications in particular. This includes whether the problem is server communication, outgoing, incoming, formatted, non-formatted, or template related.  Websphere is assumed otherwise consult your application server's documentation. 1) Be generous with application server log rotation:   In the Websphere administrative console this can be adjusted under Logging and Tracing  >  Server Name > JVM Logs  ... [More]

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Perfect Matches… Alligators and vacations, printers and relationships , Maximo and Communities .  Today, I want to introduce another perfect match….Maximo Report Users and BI Tools. In the last BiLog entry, we reviewed the various levels of Maximo Users you have based on their skill sets in Maximo and their various job requirements.  Additionally, we’ve reviewed the various Maximo Business Intelligence Tools that are delivered to you out of the box including Data Download, or QBE ,  Application Exporting , Result Sets, Key Performance... [More]

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Yes, in Maximo Scheduler 7.5.1 you can right click on a work order in the Gantt chart's activity list and initiate workflow on that work record - or on multiple selected rows simultaneously. In fact, the right click produces a pop-up menu that allows you to perform many work order actions without leaving Scheduler.  These include: change status; bulk editing of various work details (like priority and target dates for example); select owner; create communication; view item availability; create a follow-up work order; and others.   I'm posting my... [More]

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When faced with choices ,  I often try to remember the food pyramid when deciding between a decadent red velvet cookie   and a crunchy Kale chip.   Consume large quantities of green leafy vegetables, and small quantities of delicious sugary treats the pyramid reminds me – while my stomach violently disagrees.     Likewise, a pyramid is key to understanding Maximo report users.  When we talk about Maximo users in terms of reporting and data analysis – we put them in the five categories shown here.  These categories are based on the user’s job... [More]

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