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  IBM Maximo 7.6.0.8 onwards provides a new application – “Time Zone Rules”. This application can be accessed from Administration > Time Zone Rules. In the Time Zone Rules application, users can create rules on different processes on which time zone shall be applied from the process rule. Records will show the local date and time of the user who is accessing the record even if the record was created in a different time zone. Time zone rules can be associated with a process at the system, organization, or site level. Let us see how time zone rules work in Maximo with the example of PM Work Order generation. Following are the steps to be followed in this example- 1.First create a rule for PM Work Order Generation where Time Zone will be picked from the Asset record on the PM. 2.The current user that I am using has Time Zone set to Asia/Kolkata as shown below- 3.Maximo Application Servers are in EST time zones in the US. Now, let’s select an asset and associate Time Zone to America...

WebSphere  Liberty (WLP) is a new age Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server that provides support for Microservices, Containers, and Cloud while providing the ability to speed up the development as it has a very low boot-up time. One of the biggest issues with the traditional WebSphere Appl i cation Server is that it takes too much time to start any application. For Maximo, this results in extended downtime during deployment in Production Instance and increased development time for Java Customization. Developers tend to go for a hot deployment approach while developing any customization which sometimes results in problems like changes not loading properly or other caching issues. Maximo 7.6 running on IBM WebSphere Liberty profile helps to overcome these issues. This also gives the ability to run local Maximo instance for developers on their computer. For WebSphere liberty, the Maximo workload is broken into multiple different applications which provides the ability ...

Greetings! +IBM MAXIMO  gives you ability to use multiple languages like Spanish , Portuguese, Chinese , Korean , French etc other than English , if your Maximo environment is global and have users across the globe. Importing a new language in Maximo can be done by TD Tool kit. TD took kit stands for Translation Data Toolkit.  The Translation Data Toolkit is used to translate the Maximo database and handling Multi Language functionality. The TDToolkit is located under the {Maximo_install}\tools\maximo directory.  The process to import new language is a 3 step activity- 1. Take Maximo down by stopping application servers. 2. Export Labels in XLIFF file format 3. Translate the XLIFF file 4. Check for error and import translated XLIFF files. 5. Validate and start Maximo. Export Labels in XLIFF file format -  In Maximo directory , XLIFF files store all the translations for different tags related with a MBO or database table. In order to expor...

Greetings ! There are many terms which looks and feels similar but actually they differ in their detail meaning and definition. For   +IBM MAXIMO  , there are 3 very common terms which are being used when someone speaks about the product and its capabilities. These terms are - CMMS EAM IAM CMMS-  stands for Computerized  Maintenance Management System. As full form signifies , all software/ packages/products which can be used for maintenance management and tracking cost of production or non-production line assets. CMMS is basically more focused on need of one plant.  It does all the work order control , inventory control , Equipment history and Preventive maintenance for One plant and its department. EAM- stands for Enterprise Asset Management. EAM is very closely related with CMMS. The task which can be done by CMMS are same for EAM , but the most important difference between them is scope of operation. While CMMS is more focused on one p...

Greetings ! Very often during conversations , I have seen a strange reaction on face of people when someone say that I am consulting in Maximo and the response which most of the time you'll get from those tech-heads is - "Maximo , What is Maximo...?" so here we are trying to explain and revisit my understanding over this product Maximo. +IBM MAXIMO   is a leading enterprise level asset management product used in various industries like - Manufacturing , Automotive , Oil & Gas , Transportation , Health Care , Retail which gives you immense ability to track down the cost of an asset in plant right starting from installation to its decommissioning. It is a pioneer Asset Life Cycle and Maintenance Management Solution and part of family of software known as "CMMS"- Computerized maintenance management system. In simple term , everything is Maximo revolves around the term - Total Cost of an Asset. In today's competitive world and atmosphere of slowing...