EQUIPMENT USAGE ON WORK ORDERS

[JJOYCE]

We are currently using V5.2 of Maximo and upgrading to V7.2.

We need to be able to track actual equipment usage on work orders for potential billing to our tenants. Is the tools application the best way to do this? Is anyone else doing this? If so, what is the mechanism you are using to capture the actual data?

Any thoughts, insight you have would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Jessica Joyce
Port of Seattle - Marine Maintenance

[Kurt Anderson]

Hi Jessica ,

You can use the Tools application to manage information about the tools used to perform work. You catalog these tools in an Item Set, which can then be shared by the organizations using that Item Set. You can add these tools to storerooms, and use them on job plans and work orders. When you use a tool on a work order, Maximo can reserve the tool in the specified storeroom. You also can issue, receive, and transfer tools from storerooms. When you create a tool record you are defining the main attributes of the tool (such as commodity codes, issue unit, whether the tool is lotted, or rotating), along with any alternate tools that can be used in its place and a list of the qualifications necessary for a person to use the tool. All tools are marked as capitalized.


You can add the tools used to a WO along with the hours used and the cost your organization charges for it's use.
We use it to track time when a tennant rents a forklift or man lift from the airport authority.


For each tool, you can also:

add the tool to one or more storerooms

specify the tool rate, GL accounts, associated vendor, and tax codes that vary by organization

add a list of vendors that carry the tool

list the specifications for the tool

duplicate or delete a tool

attach documents outside of Maximo that relate to the tool

The Tools application contains the following tabs:

List: to search Maximo for tool records.

Tool: to view, modify, add, or delete a tool record.

Storerooms Tab: to view a read-only list of information about storerooms that stock the tool.

Vendors: to add, modify, delete, or view information about vendors that carry the tool.

Specifications: to create, modify, delete, or view specifications that detail information about the tool, such as size, speed, or material.

I hope this helps you,
Kurt Anderson
Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority

[Ray Hahne]

Jessica,

It is probably too late to help, but Yes I would use the Tools application. That is how we charge out our vehicles and rolling stock time. You can enter the transactions on the WO Actuals "Tools" tab. However, this mode of entry is somewhat klunky if you have a whole week of vehicle time to enter. So we are hoping to build a rapid tools entry screen in V7 to make it easier - we have one in 4.1.1 currently.

Ray Hahne
Chelan County PUD