Saturday, February 28, 2015

Maximo Implementation Basic

Below are the points :
  • Project planning
  • Maximo Site
  • Business process analysis and understanding the day to day work
  • Requirements gathering and analysis
  • Maximo 7.5/7.6 installation,  customization and configuration including
  • Add- On Installation 
  • Industry Specific Solutions Installation
  • Security, database configuration
  • General system setup Or Basic System Setup
  • Asset  system and location hierarchy
  • Purchasing Setup
  • Maintenance management setup including work orders, PMs, Routes and Job Plans
  • Development and integration with custom applications
  • Data Mapping form source to Maximo 
  • Data extraction, transformation and loading
  •  Report development,QBR , Cognos Report,BIRT
  • Post implementation support.

Maximo 7.6

New Features of Maximo 7.6

Maximo 7. 6 is expected to have some cool new features including the capability to support crew management as part of the core product. IBM also is expected to introduce a Log tab for Quick Reporting, Purchase Requests and Purchase Orders. Rounding out some of the new features are a Public Map API and Application Designer functionality for map controls giving you access to include Google and Bing Maps on application screens, and the ability to add service addresses for assets and locations. For those of you using Service Provider, multi-tenancy support is also becoming available.

New User Experience

Maximo 7.6 provides an improved user experience, including updated fonts, colors, and styling. Additionally, you’ll see hover-over dialog boxes, increased available icons for more short-cuts, an updated Start Center which improves the look and feel, better options for locking records where exclusive edits are required and improvements for date and time management across time zones.

Reporting and KPI’s

Maximo 7.6 is expected to have more focus on reporting and KPIs, including improvements to the Business Intelligence packs:

- Improved executive dashboards with multiple objects per results set
- Scheduling KPI’s
- Historical data analysis and trending
- Performance improvements
- The ability to set a limit on the number of records returned in a results set (also aids performance)
- The ability to add calculations to adhoc reports (QBR’s)

Specific to KPIs, you will see a new KPI template and viewer as well as access to Cognos functionality (limited to your Maximo data only).

Technology

In this release, IBM is making a big investment in technology improvements including:

- New, easier installer
- Automation of common configuration scenarios, such as middleware reconfiguration
- Better installation scripts

Platform Support

One thing to keep in mind is that with this new release, 32 bit Linux is no longer supported. However Maximo 7.6 is intended to support both Safari and Chrome as well as Internet Explorer 11.

Continuous Delivery

With Maximo 7.6, IBM is going to introduce a continuous delivery model.  In 2014, IBM introduced Maximo SaaS (software as a service). With the continuous delivery model fixes, enhancements, features and functions will be released to Maximo SaaS as soon as they are tested. Then, periodically, IBM will bundle these features for a new “on premise” version. The intention will be for updates to be specifically applicable as they are available rather than waiting for an entire large upgrade.

Enterprise Asset Management Market by Software Applications - Worldwide Forecasts and Analysis (2014-2019)

 Enterprise Asset Management Market by Software Applications (Linear Assets, Non-Linear Assets, Field Service Management, Assets MRO) by Services (Implementation, Managed Services, Training & Support) - Worldwide Forecasts and Analysis (2014-2019)

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is designed to facilitate the ease in management of assets for enterprise across various services, business units, departments, and geographical locations. With EAM, organizations can integrate, control and optimize the asset life cycles, which mainly include designing, maintenance of operations, replacement requirements and management. This solution allows organizations to manage physical assets and infrastructure, digital assets (electronic media and content), IT services, fixed assets along with emerging assets. This holistic control of assets is creating a surge of for EAM software and solutions. Enterprise asset management market solutions these days have evolved a lot these days due to its growing functionalities such as tracking and locating using geographic information system (GIS) along with energy management and compliance management.

With considerable growth in technology, enterprise asset management is now accessible from mobile device. EAM software and solutions these days are designed to offer mobility along with flexibility in work environment to gain control virtually from anywhere. EAM is designed to maximize return on assets (ROA) for manufacturing and similarly for industries with high-value equipment. In general, EAM reduces risks and costs which in turn support better decision making for assets. In recent developments, EAM is also effective in complying with required regulations irrespective of the industry type. With the implementation of EAM in the organization, management can expect more responsive assets with improved efficiency. EAM software and solutions these days are capable to handle complex activities from maintenance scheduling to risk management. The compatibility with major platforms and the provision of multi-tasking from a single interface makes EAM a major necessity for the organizations. The enterprise asset management market scenario is a substantial one with major acquisitions such as ABB acquired Ventyx, CGI acquired Logica PLC, Fujitsu acquired GlobeRanger, and Assetworks acquiring Mentor Engineering. This is evident enough to portray that the market players have considerable interest to build market share in this space.

This report analyzes global adoption trends, future growth potential, key drivers, restraints, opportunities, and best practices in the enterprise asset management (EAM) market. The report also examines growth potential market sizes and revenue forecasts across different regions as well as industry verticals.

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is a broad study of the global market and forecasts the market sizes and trends in the following sub-segments.

On the basis of software application:

    Linear Assets
    Non-Linear Assets
    Field Service Management
    Assets MRO

On the basis of services:

    Implementation
    Training and Support
    Managed Services

On the basis of user type:

    SMBs
    Large Enterprises

On the basis of industry verticals:

    Government and Utilities
    Oil and Gas
    Manufacturing
    Healthcare
    Transportation
    Others

On the basis of regions:

    North America (NA)
    Europe (EU)
    Asia Pacific (APAC)
    Middle East and Africa (MEA)
    Latin America (LA)



Source : marketsandmarkets.com

Maximo Modules

Asset Module

• Track assets, associated costs, histories and failures of serialized asset.
• Use asset modeling to determine relationships between a piece of asset, its
physical location & the systems with which it may be associated.
• Create hierarchies identifying operating locations as part of multiple systems.
• Build an equipment history to roll up maintenance costs.
• Build failure code hierarchies to record asset problems for analysis.
• Set measurement points, perform trending and defect analysis through condition
monitoring.
• Assign stores, repair shops, and vendors as location records to facilitate continual
tracking of equipment as it is moved.
• Analyze the potential for failure based on a piece of assets location and the
possible effects on systems with which it is associated.

Work Orders Module

• View detailed planning information: work plan, scheduled costs, labor, materials,
equipment, failure analysis and related documents via Work Order Tracking screen.
• Enter simple or detailed day-to-day maintenance requests via Work Request screen.
• Record maintenance work and close work orders from the shop floor via Quick
Reporting screen.
• Schedule work orders based on real-time update of criticality.
• Define and sequence work for multiple assets based on location and/or equipment.
• WBS for related work orders or projects.
• Compare real-time budgets or estimates against actuals and historical work orders.
• Track inside/outside machinery that must be off-line prior to work being performed.

Work Manager Option

• Develop daily plans and manage backlogs to lower response time and equipment
downtime.
• In dispatch mode, enter work, assign employees and track ongoing jobs in real time.
Centralized dispatching and shop floor dispatching are supported.
• In planning mode, assign employees to future work orders scheduled and track
employee availability.
• Plan upcoming work based on priority of work and craftsperson availability.

Inventory Module

• Specification of attributes and the ability to search by attribute for Items, Equipment
and Locations.
• Over 2,000 material classification templates.
• Track stocked and non-stocked items through multiple stores.
• Track items, costs and balances by bin, lot and storeroom.
• Replenish stock from vendor, ventral store, or other storeroom, when quantities fall
below minimum levels.
• Reorder items automatically by shelf life.
• Track item costs by last cost, average cost or user-defined standard cost.
• Automatically reorder materials through user-defined EOQ, ROP, and Safety Stock
algorithms.
• Use ABC analysis to assign inventory item priorities governing frequency of physical
item counts.
• Access material forecasting and time availability information.
• Create temporary stores for carriers responsible for items in transit.
• Employ just-in-time methodologies by utilizing WO Reservation Dates as well as lead
time to generate POs.
• Identify out-of-stock items or make substitutions with alternate parts, vendor and
location tracking capabilities.
• Establish EOQs, ROPs and safety stock by individual storeroom.
• Issue parts directly or in batch to work orders and GL Account Codes.
• View work order reservations for inventory items.
• Display all assets on which a given part is used.
• Mandate a date/time stamped and system verified authorization before changes in
inventory can be made.
• Access latest cost information and item levels instantly.

Preventive Maintenance Module

• Generate PM work orders individually, batched or automatically.
• Accommodate multiple criteria for work order generation.
• Generate seasonal preventive maintenance work orders for planned shutdowns.
• Sequence multiple job plans and consolidate multiple procedures on one PM master.
• Cluster PM work orders to take advantage of unplanned downtime.

Purchasing Module

• Create RFQ for multiple vendor bids on materials and services.
• Create purchase requisitions or purchase orders for materials and services.
• Create purchase requisitions from scratch or from the Inventory or Work Orders
Module.
• Automatically create purchase orders from purchase requisitions; create purchase
orders in batch from line items of multiple purchase requisitions.
• Store standard descriptions for use on PR, PO, or invoice items.
• Create agreement purchase orders to purchase parts over time.
• Automatic release of agreement POs.
• Create special orders by entering item descriptions as line items for parts not in
inventory database.
• Use direct purchasing to order and issue parts and services directly to work orders or
GL Account Codes.
• Analyze vendor performance when ordering parts.
• Use Invoice Matching to complete purchasing cycle within Maximo for seamless
interface with other enterprise financial applications; automatically perform two-way
(PO/Invoice) and three-way (PO/Receipt/Invoice) matches.
• Define an unlimited number of currencies to track purchases from different countries.
• Optimize purchasing efficiency with electronic commerce.

Plans Module

Job Plans

Track multiple quantities and costs by operation or job plan.
Divide job plans sequentially, each with its own parts, labor and tool estimates.
Automatically retrieve the most current rate and cost information for material, labor
and tool cost estimates.
Duplicate job plans for modification.

Safety Plans

• Hazardous material identification.
• Identification of hazards that can be eliminated by Lockout/Tagout.
• Identification of hazards that cannot be eliminated with their resulting precautions.
• Ability to identify affected equipment and locations.
• Associate and track permits.

Inspections

• Define Inspection plans and schedules for inspection.
• Record Inspection information thereby enabling auditability of statutory requirements.
• Analyze Inspection data to support Predictive Maintenance.

Labor Module

• Store information by employee, craft, or contractor.
• Maintain personnel files for each employee's attendance, vacation, sick, and nonproductive
work time; track overtime history and individual pay rates.
• Create craft records including regular and overtime pay rates.
• Associate labor records with craft records for organizing labor by craft.
• Report actual labor on work orders in timecard format.

Calendars Module

• Create schedules for equipment, craft, and labor records.
• View calendars via start/end date illustrating shifts, holidays, and vacations.
• View calendars by month or day displaying total work hours available.
• Associate calendars with labor and craft records to plan work based on equipment and
labor availability.

Resources Module

Maintain detailed company, service contract, and tool records for use in other modules
to plan and analyze maintenance work.

Compliance Assurance Systems Features

Track regulatory compliance activities by agency: planning, implementation and
documentation.
• Control, verify and document precautions, storage, treatment, transportation and
disposal of hazardous materials and wastes.
• Set up and track countless compliance details, such as instrument calibration,
emissions data, groundwater waste volume, radioactive waste, operating hours,
operator training and certification, scheduled parts replacement, equipment
specifications, and hazardous container locations.
• Document safety and emergency processes and procedures.
• Facilitate safety, regulatory and permit sign-offs.
• Identify and track step-by-step safety and lockout/tagout procedures.
• Establish links to regulatory agencies, documents, filings, service bulletins and recall
information.
• Preview current best practices and standards to aid compliance decisionmaking and
modeling.
• Create a clear, complete audit trail.

Integration Features

• Risk free integration with multiple financial systems including commercial integration
to SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft.
• Eliminates duplicate handling of data and ensures upgradeability to future versions of
Maximo with commercial APIs.
• Supports double entry accounting for complete integration with your own financial
system.
• Manage purchasing process via Maximo or integrate with your own financial system.
• Take advantage of user-defined financial calendars to correlate directly with your
accounting periods.
• Summarize transactions for integration while providing detailed audit trail information
in Maximo.
• Preserve your corporate General Ledger codes through Maximo's customizable, multisegment
General Ledger account field.
• Use Application Launching to register and launch applications from within any Maximo
module.
• Use Documents function to establish relationships between drawings and equipment;
launch drawings and images in their native application.
• Use Chart of Accounts to validate and control financial GL accounts.
• Access Maximo data directly, query or update the database, and run reports with
Interactive SQL.

System Requirements for Maximo Installation

Hardware (distributed topology)

Distributed deployment hardware prerequisites: This table contains hardware information for IBM middleware components. If you deploy the product using non-IBM middleware components, see the documentation provided with the product. 

 Administrative workstation:
  • 2-4GHz processor (minimum)
  • 4 GB RAM (minimum)
  • 10 Mbit/s network connection between administrative workstation and middleware servers (minimum)
  • 11 GB disk space
You must have a minimum of 11 GB disk space available for a fresh installation. Ensure 7 GB of disk space is available if you are performing an upgrade.
An additional 6 GB of disk space must be available in the TEMP directory of the administrative workstation during the installation.
Consider future process managers you might install when determining your disk space needs.
IBM DB2 (alternative database can be used):
  •  Minimum 20 GB disk space.
 IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (alternative J2EE server can be used):
  • 2-6 GHz processor
  • 40 GB disk space
  • 6 GB RAM
Oracle WebLogic Server(alternative J2EE server can be used): 

  • 2-6 GHz processor
  • 40 GB disk space
  • 6 GB RAM



  Below Link for further details


http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/maximo/System+Requirements+for+Version+7.5+Maximo+Products

How to create Calendar in Maximo

The following steps we need to follow :

1. Go To Administration and open the Calendar Application
2. Create the Calendar by going to Insert menu.
3. Add the Organization Identifier.
4. On the Calendar Field type “XXXX”
5. On the Start Date; Click on the Detail Button and select January 1, 2009 and on the End Date;
Click on the Detail Button and select December 31, 2009 and press Enter 
6. Go to Actions Define Apply/Shifts.
7. Click the Insert Row button
8. Here you need to fill out the Shift—Description—the Start Day and Days in Pattern 
9. Click OK and  click on the Define Pattern;
10. Fill the Start Time—End Time
11. Click OK
12. Click Close to exit the dialog box.
11. Click on the Actions menu and select Define Apply/Shifts…
12. Highlight the Shift that you just created in this practice is XXXX and click Apply Shifts.

IBM Maximo -- Useful Links

IBM Documentation

IBM Resources


Unofficial Maximo information sources

Public Demo sites

Creating a dupilcate application in Maximo

Below steps we need to follow :

Step 1: Go to "Application Designer" and select the existing application which needs to duplicate.
Step 2: Click on "Select Action" menu, then click on "Duplicate Application Definition".
Step 3: Dialog box will appear.
            Enter "Application" name (Valid characters are A through Z, 0 through 9, underscore(_), and $. First            character must be A through Z. Allowed only 10 characters.).
            Enter "Description" (Description will appear as application name in Maximo).
            "Main Object" is a read only and having object name same as existing application. It means, the data entered in new application will also store in the same object.
Step 4: Click on Save button on the Application designer.
Step 5: Go to "Security Group" application and select your group.
Step 6: Click on Applications tab and Select the newly created application.
Step 7: Grant access to the application.

Adding parameters in crontask

The below steps we need to follow : 

Step 1. import psdi.app.system.CrontaskParamInfo;
Step 2. import java.rmi.RemoteException;
Step 3:
public class CustomCronTask  extends SimpleCronTask{

 public CrontaskParamInfo[] getParameters() throws MXException,RemoteException
{
   CrontaskParamInfo parameters[] = new CrontaskParamInfo[2];
   parameters[0] = new CrontaskParamInfo();
   parameters[0].setName("Parameter 1");
   parameters[1] = new CrontaskParamInfo();
   parameters[1].setName("Parameter 2");
   return parameters;

}
}
Step 4: ***** This is very important *****
        i) If it is a new crontask, after creating an instance, parameters will display on the screen.
        ii) If you are adding parameters to the existing crontask, then you have to create a new crontaskinstance and save the record. Then parameters will display on the screen.