A couple of years ago I found some IBM documentation in the Maximo Developing Applications 7.5 documentation. This documentation showed how you can use {CLASSSPECVALUE} in the application designer to consolidate the 3 columns into 1 column for the user to both read and enter values. I have added a copy of the IBM documentation below for easy reference. In my experience, this has been very reliable and I use it anytime I am given the opportunity. I hope you find it helpful too.
Employees are the backbone of any business, and their success can make or break your company's potential for achievement. I wanted to share a few things we do, in the hopes of opening a dialogue with others on how they face this challenge.
When was the last training session at your facility? Any changes in personnel that are users? How do they get on-boarded into their responsibilities with Maximo? Implementation done and you are in full production for Maximo?
New MAXADMIN? An unexpected field promotion perhaps? Replacing the last MAXADMIN Team? These and other scenarios continue to occur, and there are several needs out there to be addressed. Here is an example from May 2022, where the responsibility was assigned, but not any training.
Maximo Security is important for license compliance, but that is only the beginning. Security allows you to establish roles to address your business rules, and it is the first step to simplifying Maximo by providing access in line with those roles, removing the extra modules, applications AND actions that are not needed. Maximo Application Suite grows a bit, so there is even more work to do. If you get this done in Maximo 7, the changes migrate forward to Application Suite.
I am a big believer in paying attention to the past, as it has lessons that are vital for growth and transformation. I set aside time each January to review the previous year, and this year’s reflection confirmed that 2022 was a very good year for Projetech in many aspects.
I wanted to share my personal & professional experience with Adopt A Class, in an effort to raise awareness of a very worthwhile way for Greater Cincinnati organizations to help their communities, while also providing a very rewarding team-building opportunity for their employees.
Whatever sector you operate in, or the goods and services you offer, the ISO 9001:2015 certification – the standards that a company's quality management system must achieve in order to be certified – ensures that you can consistently meet customers’ expectations.
At Projetech, we believe that our support team should prioritize customer satisfaction over other typical call center KPIs. We don't track metrics like average call time because we think these will lead to a focus on numbers rather than the needs of our customers.
Much of the infrastructure and technical skills used to run Maximo are rendered obsolete with MAS. Companies with on-premise Maximo systems will need to invest in new hardware, security, databases, training, and hiring to migrate from Maximo to MAS. Additionally, those companies will need to invest in technologies like container-based architecture, OpenShift, Kafka, MongoDB, and others. These investments can come with a heavy capital cost outlay and extended timeline to upskill staff.
In the United States, the average working week is about 40 hours, which translates to employees spending around 30% of their lives at work. This means that on average, about 25 to 30 years of their life is spent working – and another 30% is spent sleeping. Therefore, the workplace needs to be part of the solution in improving mental health.
The Maximo community has many questions about the next version of Maximo and how it will impact companies. This blog reviews at a high level the three big changes which companies and users will experience when upgrading from Maximo to Maximo Application Suite. It sets the stage for a series of blogs from Projetech that will go more in-depth to help answer these questions for Maximo users.
Looking back on 2021, there were a lot of great things that happened here at Projetech. It was really a year of exponential growth for us in countless ways, and we doubled down on our commitment to do our very best work and offer the best possible solutions for our clients while also doing even more than ever before to give back to the Cincinnati, Ohio community we call home.
As Maximo 7.6.x moves into the ‘Manage’ application within the Maximo Application Suite, the Maximo User Interface has changed to be more in line with the rest of the applications in the Suite. Many thanks to the IBM Team saddled with the responsibility of aligning the Maximo user interface to the rest of the Application Suite (Monitor, Health, etc.).
Today’s computer technology increases productivity and a variety of other things. Software maintenance keeps your software updated, so you have access to new features as well as fixes to any issues the previous software version had. Here is more about software maintenance, its benefits, and the negative results of neglecting to maintain your software.
Projetech’s Co-Op Program is one of the most important talent pipelines for our business. The Co-Op Program gives students who are interested in the field of software development, technology, security/infrastructure, and operations real-world experience working on our dynamic teams, and it offers a great introduction to what we do and how we do it.
As the Computerized Maintenance Management / Enterprise Asset Management systems are enhanced with technology, processes, and connectivity, the focus and buzzwords get to change. The continuously moving spotlight on how these changes can improve reliability gets much of the press, demonstration, marketing, etc.
We realize that it isn’t easy for customers to comparison shop in this area since it doesn’t typically show up on a fee schedule or price list – especially if it is ‘included’ in an offering. The following list of questions is intended to help evaluate support when comparing Maximo Service Providers.
Check out the latest IBM Maximo executive chat with Aquitas Solutions, Ray Miciek, and Projetech's, Steve Richmond. Topics include the evolution of Maximo users/groups, IoT, COVID-19, and everyday maintenance department challenges
Check out the latest IBM Maximo executive chat with Cohesive Solutions, George Lowry, and Projetech's, Steve Richmond. Topics include COVID and Maximo, Maximo Application Suite (MAS 8.0), and much more!
If Software as a Service (SaaS) has ever been on your organization’s radar to explore, or do more of, now is the time, especially after experiencing a global pandemic. Like many reading this blog, no one could never have predicted what the year 2020 would have in store for us. I am about 99.99% confident that not one person listed “live through a global pandemic” on their life’s bucket list. And if you are that 0.01%, well your list is shorter.
Maximo handles critical information, such as customer, asset location, maintenance scheduling, and contractual data. If this information is stolen, lost, or compromised, a company would be unable to track and maintain its assets properly, possibly resulting in a major malfunction or shutdown. Stolen financial information can be used to commit fraud.
We use apps all the time in our daily life to stream shows, rideshare, and order food. These apps upgrade without us having to worry about it. Why shouldn’t IBM Maximo work the same way?
IBM requires that all Maximo clients maintain a Software and Support Subscription agreement, also called an S&S. This agreement is renewed annually. IBM Maximo users have a limited window in which to renew their software subscription. If they fail to renew, they miss out on many benefits and lose support for their software.
Utilities generate and distribute a wide variety of vital resources to communities, including water, power, and even telecommunications. Utilities must manage and maintain numerous assets to ensure that communities receive uninterrupted service. This makes asset management a priority.
As the leading enterprise asset management (EAM) solution, IBM Maximo helps oil and gas companies optimize processes to save money. These companies can gain even more value from Maximo by using Maximo as a service (MaaS) to better track assets, increase asset portability, reduce risk, and meet compliance.
I have been in the maintenance and reliability profession for over thirty-five years, I started out with my hands on equipment, making repairs and upgrades, and managing service jobs with nothing more technologically sophisticated than a landline telephone.
When Maximo users choose Maximo as a Service, they benefit from better management, security, upgrades, availability, and support while controlling data.
Early on, I realized that the solution to maximizing the return on my capital investments was in computerized asset management, and I got hooked by the possibilities technology affords. It is really cool stuff. I still get excited by the evolution of technology. In fact, I can’t imagine not being excited about it! It keeps me on my toes, looking out for the next best thing.Today, we track more stuff related to maintenance and reliability than ever before, but this is just the beginning. Did you know that IBM has predicted within the next decade, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems will digitally track over a trillion objects worldwide?
Security is paramount when it comes to protecting your data in the cloud. Everyday there is a new security threat that emerges and this will only continue into the future.
Data protection is vital to our core business and the continued success of customer growth. At a very basic level, it is important to point out how we protect customers’ data. There are many different approaches to protecting data in the cloud, but some of the most vital are backup, disaster recovery, business continuity,contingency planning.
Most cyber-security experts agree that about 20% of travelers are subject to cyber crime while abroad. Any time you use your phone or laptop on a public network, you are subject to criminals accessing sensitive and confidential data from you or your organization. At Projetech, we keep the following in mind while we travel and suggest you do the same in order to protect your data.
How do you find material usage or labor transactions to find work order records based on that information? Simply do so by utilizing the relationship in place and modifying the application through the application designer to make the additional fields available to query.
When you need to be able to query things sometimes you need to link back to the original application. However, there are certain things you can do directly from the select value if they were there and available for you to query. You can modify the xml and have additional fields added for use in querying.
If you are using condition monitoring, you can utilize activities and tasks to provide the condition monitoring information in an easier to read, re-query, and download format.
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 you're struggling with implementation, adoption & ongoing support, MaxPlus+ is a value-added solution made for you. Here are seven reasons that you need MaxPlus+ from Projetech.
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.
Maximo 7.6 offers many tools to enhance the user’s experience. One such tool is Hover Dialogs. Here are five easy steps to adding Hover Dialogs to more screens.
Projetech takes threats to the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of its clients' information seriously. As such, Projetech is an ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified provider whose Information Security Management System (ISMS) has received third-party accreditation from the International Standards Organization.
As an IBM Maximo® as a Service (MaaS) provider, oftentimes, I hear or see the term “hosting” being used as a reference to the services Projetech provides. Although, the error may seem benign, it is an extreme misnomer and injustice to what it is we really do! Saying we deliver a hosting solution is comparable to saying the solar system is a galaxy! I realize it’s not an intentional offense, but a matter of lack of awareness of the difference.
Maximo is a highly configurable product. With minimal technical skills, users can add new fields, make screen changes, or restrict values of attributes in Maximo. But once you start needing to go beyond those capabilities, that’s when people start asking questions about Automation Scripts/Java Customizations. And if it’s something you haven’t done before, it can be quite intimidating at first. Hopefully this blog series will help eliminate most of the intimidation and allow you to achieve your business objectives faster.
Our subscription-based model, Maximo Plus+ provides clients with one of the best Maximo support options available! Help Desk support, monitoring, license right-sizing, and more!
Projetech is entitled to thousands of Maximo licenses, and we are responsible for hundreds of Maximo instances in our cloud. Out of necessity, we have had to develop the expertise, and our own proprietary tooling to be able to manage license compliance. Also, we know that license compliance is fluid, (specific license types come to end of support, trade-ups occur, security groups change, etc.), so it isn’t a one & done task. It is something that requires constant care and feeding, and thankfully, we had implemented those controls.
