One of the most frustrating tasks I've had over the years as a Maximo administrator is cleaning up records for an employee that has separated from the company. It's frustrating because the call/ticket I will likely receive from a Maximo user is asking about how to work around an …

One of the trickier tasks a Maximo administrator will run into is migrating information from a legacy system into Maximo. And one of the trickiest migrations can be importing long text notes from a legacy system into Maximo's Long Description fields. When I have to migrate information into Maximo, understanding …

One of the metrics commonly adopted by an organization early in their reliability journey is the Preventive Maintenance Compliance metric.[^92032] The goal of the metric is to understand how effective the maintenance and operations teams are getting PM actions completed. The goal is to get at least 90% of …

For a long time I've always promoted the idea that a report should have flexibility with date ranges. Either the report should allow a user to select a date range or include rolling date ranges. To match this philosophy, we have have several reports that include rolling date range, but …

One of the tenets I teach about reporting in Maximo is to look for the exceptions in the data, not the data itself. Out of the box, Maximo has quite a few key reports included, one of them is the WO List report (wotrack.rptdesign). That report lists every work …