How to Rate the Criticality of Your Equipment Rating equipment criticality is an important part of a strong preventive maintenance plan. By... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Burst the Information Bubble: Why You Need the Ability to Schedule by Craft and Labor in 1 Screen If there’s one thing we know, it’s that scheduling can’t be done effectively in an... CATEGORY: Tutorials
The Basics You Need to Know about the Art and Science of Mining Maintenance Data There are many different ways to collect datasets in order to determine machine and equipment... CATEGORY: Tutorials
A Year's Worth of IBM Maximo Tips and Tricks This has been a big year for Maximo users everywhere. CATEGORY: Tutorials
Get Out of Limbo and Into Productivity by Increasing the Rows Displayed in IBM Maximo Planners and Schedulers are amazing people. They work with huge data sets, sometimes full of... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Color Yourself Happy: Changing the Colors of Specific Fields in IBM Maximo One of the biggest CMMS system hardships for maintenance Planners and Schedulers is screen clutter.... CATEGORY: Tutorials
What Does Flipping Burgers Have to Do with Managing Asset or Location Availability? Planning and Scheduling maintenance is both an art and a science. There are tons of variables at... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Listen Up! How to Schedule With the Latest IBM Maximo Data A friend of mine told me about a family trick they do to prevent arguments when they’re packing for... CATEGORY: Tutorials
What Should You Do if Your IBM Maximo Consultant Makes You Cry? During a recent AKWIRE training class, I was able to listen to an interesting conversation. A... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Use This Prometheus Routine Maintenance Function to Enhance How You Prioritize Enterprise Maintenance Imagine that you’ve got an overdue PM that will eventually lead to a critical outage if left... CATEGORY: Tutorials
How to Improve Long-Term Planning and Scheduling for IBM Maximo with AKWIRE Maintenance Planners and Schedulers in Oil and Gas, Utilities, Facilities Management and everywhere... CATEGORY: Tutorials
IBM Maximo Build EAR Process Slowing You Down? Here’s One Way to Fix It The IBM Maximo EAR (Enterprise Application Archive) file is an enterprise archive that can be... CATEGORY: Tutorials
My Top 3 Recommendations for IBM Maximo Power Users IBM Maximo is a complicated and immensely powerful tool. It can take years to develop expertise to... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Maximo Dos and Don’ts: Tips to Live By From Two IBM Maximo Pros IBM Maximo is one of the most powerful (and popular) CMMS solutions out there – and for good... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Users Getting Lost? How to Change the URL Context of the Application in IBM Maximo Awhile back, I ran into a client who had three environments co-located. It was a classic “all eggs... CATEGORY: Tutorials
How to Disable the Heads Down Data Entry in IBM Maximo That's Wasting Your Time Progress. It’s a funny concept, because what’s an improvement for some people isn’t for others. For... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Was Your Maximo Installed By Another User? Here’s How I Solved That “Issue” You may notice that this article is shorter than usual – but that’s OK. When you run into a... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Are You Scheduling Parent, Child or Task Work Orders? How Conditional Loading Can Make Scheduling Faster & Easier Sometimes, all it takes is a fresh set of eyes to make you question long-held processes and habits.... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Find Columns in All Tables With This Handy SQL Script for IBM Maximo, and Other Database IBM Maximo stores massive amounts of data. Massive. In a typical out of the box set-up, you’re... CATEGORY: Tutorials
How to Find Columns in All Tables – Fast! – With This Oracle Script for IBM Maximo and More There’s one thing virtually every maintenance Planner or Scheduler can agree on, whether you work... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Is it May 6 or June 5? Customize How the Date is Displayed in IBM Maximo I’m sure you all remember when “The Dress” broke the internet in 2016. Was it white and gold or... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Finding a Direct Route in Your IBM Maximo Maze I’ve received some emails from readers enjoying some of my articles highlighting the adventures in... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Increasing the Number of Sessions in Maximo: One Way You Can Do it Keeping the tone of the last few short and sweet technical articles that I’ve been publishing over... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Tight Fit? How You Can Increase the Size of Maximo Dialog Boxes How many of you have run into the situation that you need to add more and more columns to a Maximo... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Maximo Magic: How to Hide an Application Tab for Some Security Groups As we have been doing in the past few months, you’ve seen some short and sweet articles based on my... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Kill Clutter & Like What You See: Improving Data Visualization With Calculated Fields In my world, many of the challenges I’ve worked to help resolve are all rooted in the same problem:... CATEGORY: Tutorials
The Right Parts at the Right Time: How to Manage Your Spare Parts Successfully Do you have the right spares in stock when your equipment fails? Do you have too much of the wrong... CATEGORY: Tutorials
KPIs, Reports and Analytics Part 1 – Wasting Time Reporting On Time Wasted In late October, I spoke at Australia’s largest SAP EAM conference for the fourth time. Each time... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Want a 24-Hour Clock For IBM Maximo? Here’s How to Get It If you’re like me, you dislike working with an AM and PM format. There’s just too much of a risk of... CATEGORY: Tutorials
How Do They Do That?! Using Custom Calculated Fields to Work Smarter Custom calculated fields are one of the most powerful tools that you can have at your disposal when... CATEGORY: Tutorials
How Long Does it Take YOU to Update 200+ Job Plans in IBM Maximo? Imagine you’re at a retirement party for John, who’s been the supervisor of your organization’s... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Elegant Simplicity: Simplified UI Roles for Every Member of Your Team As a software company, one of our greatest joys is innovating new tools, features, and capabilities... CATEGORY: Tutorials
Love the Way You Filter: No Child (or Task) Maximo Work Order Left Behind Because Planners and Schedulers deal with such large quantities of data, it’s important for them to... CATEGORY: Tutorials