IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
In Maximo/TPAE applications assets can be either rotating or non-rotating. The difference between those two types of assets is sometimes not clear. Rotating assets are assets that are interchangeable, such as motors, pumps, fire extinguishers, or PC monitors. Rotating assets have both a unique asset number and an inventory item number. The item number lets […]
Remember that tomorrow your Maximo servers may face this critical issue: WebSphere plugin-key.kdb password to expire on April 26, 2012.This is the procedure to fix the problem.
This entry is part of the Maximo Integration Framework series. In standard Maximo/TPAE there is no way to schedule the invocation of an outbound interface in order to periodically export a CSV or XML file at a specific interval. This can be accomplished with a little custom Java class. I have used the Java code […]
Locations are places where assets are stored. Locations are typically the places where assets operate, but include any building, place, or other areas that contain assets, where maintenance work might be performed.A Maximo Location stores aggregated data of all events and costs performed within that Location. This includes the movement of assets into and out […]
Do you want to learn more about maintenance performance monitoring?Check out Jason’s new post on Tivoli User Community: First things first for Maximo KPI’s and Metrics
Maximo does not allow to delete applications from the Application Designer. However, there is a trick well hidden in the Application Developer Guide to accomplish this task using a SQL client. Note that only user defined application should be deleted. Out-of-the-box applications can be hidden using the standard Maximo security mechanism. It is better to […]
There are many reasons why it is useful sometimes to overwrite a development, test or training system with all the data and customizations from the production system. These are just few examples: Development systems has become dirty after some customization that have not been moved to production. Fresh data is needed on the test system […]
Check out the this TechNote from IBM about Maximo inventory management. Another interesting resource is the Understanding Maximo Asset Management inventory reorder calculations video. The same presentation is available in PDF format. Inventory application map (Maximo Secrets)
In today’s post I want to share with you a brief history of Maximo and how it relates with many other IBM products TAMIT, CCMDB, TSRM. Maximo is the product name introduced in early 1990’s that was then classified as Computerized Maintenance Management Software or CMMS, by Project Software Development, Inc. (PSDI) During the Dot […]
This entry is part of the Conditional Expressions HowTo. Conditional expressions are one of the most powerful tool in the hand of a skilled TPAE specialist. However, when things get complex it may be hard to track where all custom conditional expression are referenced in your environment. That’s why I have spent some minutes developing […]