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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM MAS - Manage (Base)
Categories Asset/Work Management
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 14, 2023

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Work order description to come from the job plan when it's generated from a PM

Whenever a work order is generated from a PM there are two scenarios from where the resulting work order description will come from. 

1. From the PM, if the PM has a description

2. From the Job Plan, if the PM has no description.

The problem is that a lot of time the description of the work is contained on the Job Plan rather than the PM.  As a use case, in the rail and bus industries that are an A, B, C, etc service or it could be a monthly, bi-monthly, and annual service, however, the PM's description reads "Train 1234 maintenance".  As a maintainer, it doesn't matter how extensive the maintenance as the work order all reads the same "Train 1234 maintenance".  This means that I am not potentially prepared as I need to be nor does it actually communicate the intended work.

If the PM has no description the work will read [sourced from the Job Plan therefore]:

- A service

- B Service

- C Service

Desired outcome: It would be good to have a settable flag on the PM that when the PM is generated into a work order, then work order description can either come from the PM or the Job Plan.

Commentary

Whilst there is a standard method that already exists to get the work order description from the Job Plan which involves removing the PM description, this is very inefficient and means that you have a bunch of PMs not knowing what they are for.  It would be much better to leave the description and through the use of a toggle to determine where the work order description comes from. 

Idea priority High
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
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  • Guest
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    |     Apr 10, 2024

    We ABSOLUTELY would love to have this feature available! It makes no sense to have to delete the description of the PM and have all those blanks in your PM application, making it extremely hard to search for and manage your PM list. I look forward to being able to use this revised functionality soon. Thank you!

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 5, 2023

    I would appreciate this sort of layout too! I would prefer one PMWO when a yearly is due opposed to multiple PMWOs generated following Maximo PM Hierarchy (i.e. a Monthly, and a Quarterly, and a Semiannual PMWO).

    Thanks!

  • Guest
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    |     Mar 24, 2023

    Yes, please!! We have sooooo many PM's with multiple job plans that our work process would greatly benefit from this feature.

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