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Asset/Work Management

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Provide a way to mass assign a lead to a work order through common actions

We have dispatchers that assign work to work groups and the work groups then assign a lead to the work order. The amount of work orders that are entered have to be reviewed individually one at a time prior to assigning leads. Most of the informati...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Add Reservation type to Job plan

It would be useful to add the same reservation type drop down to job plan planned materials. This way, you could nominated items as SOFT so that when it is a work order, the planned SOFT materials are available as a reference but do not force item...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

PM Seasonal Dates - Holiday Days

When generating work orders many organizations will not want work orders to be generated on public holidays. This could be handled with a reference to a calendar (without shift) where the dates have been provided by the action Define/Apply Non-Wor...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Job Plan Work Assets to reference an Asset Template

Job Plan Work Assets are used to filter Job Plans on the Work Order Tracking application. Currently this is by Asset, Location or Item, the Item here is referring to rotating items and will pull in to the filtered list of job plans assets (or loca...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Master PMs - should be able to standardize all the fields in a PM

We create a master template to be able to standardize and speed up the process. However, not all the fields in a PM are available on the Master PM, so each PM still requires a fair amount of editing before making active. For example, the 3 frequen...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Add as Spare Part to Asset Template

There's currently a checkbox in Item Master to add a part to the Asset's Spare Parts list when issued to a Work Order w/ an Asset. However, we are trying to manage our Assets' Spare Parts list via Asset Templates. It would make more sense that whe...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

How to register Problem-Cause-Remedy on a WO having multiple Assets

Being the contractor's technician or the Asset Operation Manager, I need to be able to report different sets of Problem-Cause-Remedy on assets on my multi-asset WOs, so that I can ensure that later defect analysis will be based on valid data and d...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

RFE for Service Address to come over onto a duplicated SR

Service Requests and Work Orders work in a similar fashion, and work in concert in Maximo. When WOs are duplicated, service addresses are also copied across. When SRs are duplicated, service addresses are not copied across, and that is not expecte...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 4 Planned for future release

Discard auto fill for asset field when newly creating PM work order against location

We are using MAS 8.7 and currently for any Work Order generated from PM, if the PM has only Location associated and that Location has single Asset then that Asset is copied to the Work Order. If the PM has multiple Assets within hierarchy then Par...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Use Ticket or Work Order Calendar for Calculating Escalation Point Condition

In Organizations application the SLA Options setting Use Calendar for Calculating Escalation Point Condition doesn't appear to work and it is believed to have never been implemented. The idea behind this seems to be that when creating an escalatio...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration