Using meter values to create health scores

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In Maximo® Civil Infrastructure, you can specify the observed condition value of each bridge component in a characteristic meter in the component's asset or location record. In Maximo Health, you can then use the meter as a contributor to the health score.

Before you begin

Ensure that you have a current meter value for each bridge component.

Procedure

  1. In Maximo Civil Infrastructure, complete the following steps:
    1. Create an ALN domain that defines the values that you can specify for the meter.
      1. In the Domains application, create an ALN domain that is called, for example, CONDITION.
      2. Add the values that are valid for the meter, for example, if you are using the Danish bridge rating system, add the following values to the domain:
      Table 1. Example values for the CONDITION domain based on the Danish bridge rating system
      Meter value Description
      0 Insignificant deterioration; little or no damage.
      1 Minor deterioration, damage that has a very slow rate of development.
      2 Damage is at an early stage of development.
      3 Damage is developed to such a degree that it is likely that the component will fail within a short time period.
      4 The component is severely deteriorated such that its capacity to fulfill its function has or will soon disappear.
      5 The component is completely deteriorated and can no longer function.
    2. Create a meter and associate the domain with the meter.
      1. In the Meters application, create a meter that is called, for example, CONDITION.
      2. Set the meter type to Characteristic.
      3. Attach the domain that you created for the meter.
    3. For each bridge component, attach the meter to each bridge component's asset or location record and specify a meter value.
      1. In the Assets or Locations application, open an asset or location record for a bridge component.
      2. In the Meter field, select the meter that you created.
      3. In the Last Reading field, specify a value.
  2. In Maximo Health, complete the following steps:
    1. Create a scoring contributor and configure it to use the meter that you created in Maximo Civil Infrastructure. If the characteristic meter that you created in Maximo Civil Infrastructure accepts numeric values, remove the string that is automatically inserted in the contributor's Formula field and replace it with:

      METERVAL("metername")

      where metername is the name of the meter. For example, if you created a characteristic meter called CONDITION, specify METERVAL("CONDITION").

    2. Create a scoring group that contains all of the bridge component assets. For example, for the sample bridge hierarchy, add the assets for each pier's face to the same scoring group.

      One way to add the bridge components to the group is to specify the same value in the Type field of each component record in Maximo Civil Infrastructure. Then, create a query in Maximo Health to add assets of that type to the scoring group.

    3. Add a score of type Health to the new group.
    4. Add the scoring contributor that you created to the group.
    5. Edit the scoring contributor and set the weigh value to 100% to indicate that this group has only a single contributor.
    6. Activate the scoring group.

    For more information on configuring Maximo Health, see the help information in the Maximo Health user interface.