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IBM Software Group
The New Features and Capabilities of Maximo 7.1
Maximo Webcast Series
© 2007 IBM Corporation
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Frank Vanderham, PhD – Ontracks Consulting
September 18, 2008
Outline
• The evolution towards Maximo 7.1 - now truly "IBM blue”
• Business benefits of new capabilities in Maximo 7.1
• System-related improvements in 7.1: administration, deployment,
reports
• Our implementation experiences with 7.1 so far• Our implementation experiences with 7.1 so far
• Live demonstration of Maximo 7.1 and its new features
• Q&A
The evolution towards Maximo 7.1
• Maximo 4 – Thick Client Database application
• Maximo 5 – Web-based Java EE application
• Maximo 6 – New functionality, Application Designer, enhanced
security, workflow
• Maximo 7.1 – First IBM release, the topic of today’s webcast• Maximo 7.1 – First IBM release, the topic of today’s webcast
Business Benefits – New Capabilities
• Linear Assets – pipelines, roads, railways, etc.
– Handles segments, e.g. create and view work orders from mile post 1a
through 12b
– Is licensed as a separate module, not part of base package
• Conditional Expressions
– Define conditions based on field values (e.g. statuses, owners, etc.)– Define conditions based on field values (e.g. statuses, owners, etc.)
– Labor records with pay-rates, only HR people can see those
– Access based on a record’s field value: e.g. MOC Work orders can only be
viewed by MOC persons.
– Data restrictions are applied before the record is fetched: allows for secure
and sensitive data management
Business Benefits – New Capabilities – Cont.
• Improved Work Order Task management – Task Application
– Start and stop individual tasks through assignments
– Use a timer to indicate start and finish
– Application automatically logs elapsed time against the work order
• Improved Work Order Management
– Multiple assets on a single work order
– Attach documents at the task level
– Automatically set task in progress upon completion of previous task
– Ability to prevent tasks from starting before the previous is completed
– Classification Attributes (in addition to just classifications in v6)
Business Benefits – New Capabilities – Cont.
• Routes
– Routes can now create, for each route stop:
– Child Work Orders (as previous versions)
– Task Work Orders
– Multiple assets on a single Work Order
• Assets• Assets
– Create Asset Collections
– Ability to control user access to these collections, spanning multiple sites
• Service Requests
– Service Request Templates – create templates for commonly used requests
– Dialog-based create actions – create Work Order from Request, etc.
Business Benefits – New Capabilities – Cont.
• Items
– Item Status: mark items as Obsolete (or other statuses)
– Item Images: see the item’s image directly on the Item tab
• Improved Job Plans
– Ability to create “nested” Job Plans – a Job Plan that contains other Job
PlansPlans
– (default WO report does not show children)
– Job Plan Templates
System-related improvements
• No more Actuate Report Server
– Replaced with BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) report server
– Deployed with the Maximo application
• Apply database changes without shutting down Maximo
– Greatly shortens time to deploy changes
• Enhancements to Integration
– Invoke Maximo processes from external system, such as Status Changes
– Invoke external systems within Maximo, driven from Workflow, Escalations,
Select Action, etc.
• Management of System Properties within the application
Reports
• Maximo now support multiple report engines
• Report engines can be utilized from within Maximo “Run Reports”
menus
• Out-of-the box reports are with BIRT
System-related improvements – Cont.
Migration Manager
System-related improvements – Cont.
Our implementation experiences with 7.1 so far
• Completed two implementations – last one just went Live
• System requirements have increased significantly
– Maximo no longer ships with BEA Weblogic, only IBM Websphere
– MUST have at least 4 GB of RAM for any size deployment, 8 GB would be our
recommendation
• Installation experience• Installation experience
• System admin
• Report Development
• Any bugs…?
Demonstration
• BIRT Report Writer
• Maximo 7.1
