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 …

One of the first rules I learned when creating reports was to get your report's select statement to do as much of the work for you. When the select statement is properly formatted, the statement can do a lot of the functional work you'd have to setup in BIRT. This …