One of the challenges in my Maximo environment is an efficient way to keep and store 'living documents'. A lot of us have Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, etc., but most of those services are either restricted from widespread access (Dropbox) or have a versioning system (SharePoint) that can make keeping living …
A conference that turned into a community
Community
It’s not normally the word you’d think of when describing your experiences at a conference. A conference is supposed to be about travel hassles, hotel reservations, PowerPoint slide decks, and bad diet choices. But this conference felt different before I even arrived. MaximoWorld 2017 was held at …
Using Maximo to help train users on queries
One of the challenges Maximo administrators face is getting a good user to get to the next level of experience in using Maximo. The biggest gain I think a power use can make is being able to transition from searches using the List Tab/Advanced Search to modifying searches in …
Protecting Maximo from inbound emails
I've been using Maximo's email listener to help shift requests getting emailed directly to the Maintenance Manager and Supervisors and into an inbox that can be managed by the entire maintenance department. Maximo has an out of the box workflow 1 to handle inbound emails from an email listener. There …
Asking the right questions about your metrics
One task a reliability team should do on a regular basis is sitting down to discuss the trends of any metrics or scorecards being kept on their program. Blasting out reports, and then not talking about the contents of the reports, is just a waste of time and email space …