Maximo Linear Asset Manager extends the capabilities of the IBM enterprise asset management solution to include the management of linear assets. It enables you to change characteristics over the span of a linear asset using dynamic segmentation.

Maximo Linear Asset Manager lets you:

• Apply user defined relationships to more accurately portray operational connectivity.
• Use dynamic condition monitoring by adding a linear position expression to measurements.
• Manage linear work using start and end measures or pre-defined reference points.
• Track labor, materials and tools charges by linear measure and not just asset.

Search linear work orders using linear measures or reference points.

What is Maximo Everyplace?

Maximo® Everyplace provides users with access to the features of IBM® Maximo Asset Management that they need, when and where they need them. This mobile access eliminates lag times and errors that can occur when you must postpone entering information into Maximo Asset Management. Everyplace applications provide the mobile workforce with tools to complete their daily tasks, such as preparing resources, reviewing work orders, optimizing routes, and updating work orders with the least travel times and downtime. (You must have a Maximo® Everyplace® 7.5 license to have access to these Everyplace applications.)

You can configure applications for use on mobile devices without installing anything on the devices themselves. These mobile applications have the same controls as other Maximo applications. However, some controls look different, because they have been designed to make the application easier to use on a small screen. For example, text is often larger, and push buttons are both larger and have more space around them. Maximo Everyplace includes the following components: 

• A viewport in the Application Designer application indicates the amount of screen real estate available on the device for which you are designing.
• The Viewport domain, in the Domains application, lists the viewports that you configure for different devices. When you configure a viewport, it becomes available for selection in the Application Designer application.
• The Is Mobile check box in the Application Designer application specifies if an application is designed for use on a mobile device. When you check this box, the user interface becomes appropriate for a small, touch-sensitive screen device.
• Sample applications, Work Status (WOTRACK_EV) and Report Problem (SR_EV), are provided on the product launchpad to help you start developing applications for use on mobile devices.
• A sign-in screen is provided for use specifically on mobile devices. A mobile device is automatically detected if you have single sign-in (LDAP) enabled.

What is Maximo Anywhere?

Maximo Anywhere is designed to work in a hybrid connected and disconnected environment. Unlike Mobile and Everyplace that connect directly to Maximo, Anywhere connects through a MobileFirst server. This is a powerful tool that will allow clients to distribute applications from the MobileFirst application center, similar to the Android Play Store. The current release of Anywhere runs on Android (phone, tablet), Apple iOS (phone, tablet) and Windows 8.1.

Maximo Anywhere allows users to take advantage of maps to see routes and get turn by turn directions to the work orders assigned to them. It enables your mobile workforce to:

• Get instant access to critical data, even while disconnected.
• Work with a broad range of instrumented machines and smart devices.
• Complete tasks virtually anywhere with secure, trusted transactions.
• Reduce data entry errors and miscommunications by allowing users to simply do their work – even while disconnected.

New features in IBM® Maximo Anywhere version 7.6.3 improve the efficiency of the installation process, the view of data in the IBM Maximo® Anywhere Work Execution app, and the ability to work offline. Improvements to the user interface, and serviceability are also included.

Installation process improvements

You can now complete the following tasks during installation:

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Specify information for push notifications support.

Specify the path to the directory where you installed Oracle JDK.

Select which apps to build, deploy, and distribute.

Ensure, during the installation of the Maximo Asset Management component, that a user has the appropriate security group permissions to log in to the Maximo Anywhere apps after the installation of the product is completed.

Enable the Anywhere Administration capability so that you can modify the apps from Maximo Asset Management by using the Anywhere Administration application.

Enable demonstration mode in the Anywhere Administration app to ensure that any user has end-to-end connectivity with limited data that is established from the device. The Anywhere Administration app properties to set to true are Si.demomode and Si.demopagesize.

Run the build all command and the admin-config-loader.xml utility from the launchpad after the installation is complete.

Budget Monitoring in IBM Maximo?

In the Budget Monitoring application, you can create budget records to monitor transactions in a financial period. Monitoring budget costs can help to ensure that projects or activities, such as work orders, are completed within an agreed budget and can improve estimation of the costs of future projects.

As an administrator, you can create budget records by configuring focal points and calculation rules. Focal points represent the item that you are monitoring in the budget record, such as assets, location, or general ledger accounts or components. You create focal points, for example, to track costs on check type master task cards for a specific model of aircraft. You can configure calculation rules that are based on estimated, approved, and actual costs.

Users create transactions for work orders, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, invoices, and issues. The budget records then monitor these transactions and are used to create reports.

Budget reports provide a summarized and detailed view of costs by type, such as labor, tools, services, materials. Budget reports also provide a summarized and detailed view of costs by status such as estimated, approved, and actual costs, and compare them with related budgeted amounts.

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