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nickhaase
nickhaaseMaintainX Community Team
posted in Industry Q&A
🏆 State of Industrial Maintenance Report 2024: Share Your Insights, Earn Rewards! 🏆

🏆 State of Industrial Maintenance Report 2024: Share Your Insights, Earn Rewards! 🏆 We're thrilled to announce the release of our first annual State of Industrial Maintenance Report for 2024! To celebrate, we're kicking off an exciting community discussion series with chances to earn rewards. Let's dive in!📊 About the ReportOur comprehensive report, based on a global survey of 1,165 MRO professionals, reveals fascinating insights into the current state of industrial maintenance, including:The paradox of decreasing downtime incidents but rising costs Impact of aging equipment on operations Growing skilled labor shortages Shift towards predictive maintenance strategies🔍 Curious? Check out the full report here. 🎁 Earn Rewards! Over the next two weeks, we'll be posting a series of questions based on key findings from the report. This is your chance to share your experiences and insights - and win!For this kickoff post: The top 5 replies with the most likes will each earn a $50 gift ca

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PtsmedEmerging Technician
asked in Industry Q&A
exporting field data to a PDF form

I am very new to MX and I have a question about data export. We are a medical equipment and laboratory service company. One of the services we offer is traceable calibration on refrigerators & freezers for vaccine and tissue storage. We have been manually populating an Adobe form to create a traceable certificate acceptable to regulatory requirements for our customers. I have designed a simple procedure in MX to perform the work and I like tying the procedure to an asset and a WO, but would like to send that completed data to a form with our letterhead and create a single page certificate preferably a signed PDF. I am exploring Zapier and don't know if that will work for us. Just wanted to see if anyone has attempted anything similar. Thanks  Lane Smith 

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LeonCEmerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
Utilities Meters

Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to record more than one reading against a meter without having to create multiple versions of the same meter. An example is our energy bill for reticulated natural gas. I want to record current meter reading as well as kWh associated with that reading. Do I need to create a second meter rather than just have two different unit readings per meter? The same would apply for electricity where there are up to three or four fields on our utilities bill we would like to track. 

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Arjun RamakrishnanEmerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
Day of Week Condition for Automation Work Orders

I am working on moving our calendar-based PM system to a usage-based system from machine runtime. I would like to have a way to schedule the PM Work Orders so that due dates cannot fall on weekends. The only “Condition” available to me in the Automation Work Order creation menu is “Between certain hours”, which is not particularly helpful in this case.Is there a streamlined way to accomplish what I am looking for? Thank you!

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Notification for part needing reorder

Am I just missing something when it comes to parts needing to be reordered due to being at or below minimum? I have several parts that fall in this category, but no one knew so they haven’t been ordered. I see that a notification will be sent for critical parts/spares at or below minimum but nothing for non-critical. I hope someone is doing this and can help me get our system set to do it. ThanksJohn 

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RockyEmerging Technician
asked in Industry Q&A
messer plasma concentricity adjustment

i have recently taken over the department that the plasma tables operate out of and the concentricity has never been adjusted ive done research and have tried to adjust it with no sucess it seems like something is worn out or bent. its about a ¼ inch out. does anyone know anything about adjusting concentricity?

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Mike
MikeSkilled Contributor
asked in Product Q&A
API (Power BI / Looker) - Overdue Logic

To my knowledge, the API doesn’t have a specific field for whether or not a work order is overdue, so we need to create a new value in order to expand on the existing reports.This is the base formula I’m using: OverdueState = // Work order is considered overdue if [Completed On] > [Due Date] IF( 'WorkOrders'[Completed on] > 'WorkOrders'[Due Date] , TRUE , FALSE )I’ve tried filtering by various combinations of work order creation, close, & updated timestamps and Status=CANCELED/SKIPPED. The numbers are always close to what shows up on MaintainX reporting, but are always slightly off. Has anyone had any luck recreating the overdue logic that MaintainX reporting uses?

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Manager notification of downtime

Does anyone know if there’s a way to have an email notification when a critical production asset goes offline? Our production manager, who is only a requester, really needs to know whenever production is impacted by equipment failure. The maintenance team gets notification of the request and subsequent work order, but they are all at least full users. I’m hoping this is something we have available to us without having to request MaintainX do in the background. I would think others have this need as well.

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Default work order from request

Does anyone know if I can create a work order template and make it the default? I have a template we want to use for all requests.Thanks everyone,John 

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kristyEmerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
How do you Add Estimated Time Column to table view of work orders

Hi, Could someone please help me with how to add the estimated time column to the work order table view - I am trying to plan work and find it hard as i cant easily see the time it is estimated that a job would take. I have looked at the gear box in the table view and there is no option that i can see to add estimated time. ThanksKB

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lars66Emerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
Samsara to MaintainX

Hello, I'm looking for information on the integration of Samsara to MaintainX! Are there any company's utilizing this integration that could help with starting the process? thanks

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nickhaase
nickhaaseMaintainX Community Team
posted in Industry Q&A
When Talent Retires, Does Knowledge Retire Too? Future-Proofing with Apprenticeships

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we keep critical know-how from walking out the door when our most experienced teammates hang up their hard hats.Last week I spoke with Facilities Dive about why apprenticeships are more than a hiring play—they’re a business strategy. In maintenance and reliability, 90 % of the craft is learned on the floor. But the context—the little tricks that make your facility run like your facility—never comes from a textbook. It comes from working shoulder-to-shoulder with someone who’s solved the problem a hundred times.📖 Read the article: https://www.facilitiesdive.com/news/among-those-in-skilled-trades-high-hopes-renewed-focus-apprenticeships/748737/We’re seeing leading ops teams formalize these programs with: Structure. Clear learning paths tied to real work orders. Committed mentors. Veterans who get time—and recognition—to teach. Scalable content. SOPs, videos, and checklists that live where the work happens (shameless plug: MaintainX makes this easy)

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Adjust downtime

In the event someone forgets to put an asset back online is there a means to go back later and adjust the asset downtime? I have looked at the work order and the asset and just don’t see a way to do this. My downtime report is inaccurate, and I need to figure out how to correct it.

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Differences between work order and reporting data

We have just started using MaintainX and are now exploring the reporting function and the data sometimes doesn’t appear to match from all locations. As an example, in Work Orders calendar view I show 5 work orders for today all completed. When I look at Reporting for work orders it says we have 6 completed for today, when I expand and look at the details there are 7 shown as done. Has anyone else seen any discrepancies in data, I’m briefing plant and corporate based on the data from MaintainX and right now I don’t know where I need to pull my numbers from.

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helensoundEmerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
Work order for multiple assets

I want to be able to add multiple assets (in this case several sash windows need maintainance and will be done as a single job by a single contractor) to one work order. Is this possible? It seems like you have to create a work order for each single asset which is clunky.

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nickhaase
nickhaaseMaintainX Community Team
posted in Industry Q&A
🚀 Who's Hiring? Share Your Job Listings Here! 🚀

Looking to expand your team or know of fantastic opportunities in the industry? This is the place to share any job openings!Whether you’re hiring for maintenance technicians, operations managers, or any other positions, we'd love to hear about it. Please feel free to post job listings in this thread and help our community members find their next great role.When sharing a job listing, please include:Job Title Company Name Location (Remote/In-Person) Brief Job Description How to Apply Contact Information (link to job listing)Let's support each other in finding new opportunities and building awesome teams! 🚀*No automated bots can post to this thread, only registered community members. We are also only accepting operational job listings for this thread - no sales/marketing/finance related listing*

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Add parts to a PM

Do we have the ability to list parts required to perform a PM in the procedure? If not there can I put them in the work order and it will then populate all future recurring work orders? 

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James Beers
JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Work order workflow and fully closing

I have noticed that work orders with a status of Done meaning work has been completed can still be edited. Has anyone found a way to lock work orders that have been completed and reviewed to ensure there are no outstanding actions against that job? Our maintenance & engineering director wants to have a supervisory review for work orders and once complete the job will be done-done meaning closed out. Any ideas? As always thank you all,John

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Multiple assets with hour meters

I have multiple assets that need to have run time captured which will drive maintenance. My question is do I need a run time meter for each asset or do I create 1 run time meter and assign it to each asset? In a previous CMMS I used it only required me to create a single instance of the meter so I’m curious how MaintainX handles this instance. Thank you all.John 

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Storeroom shelf and bin locations

Our storeroom is a sublocation of another and I have tried to set up sub locations for my shelving and next would be bins. I can’t even add the shelving into my storeroom, how are other people creating storeroom locations to easily locate parts? Getting frustrated with this one.Thanks all,John

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wyso0017Emerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
Building Reports for Aged Work Orders

I would like to create a report of work orders showing the number of open work orders by month so that I can keep an eye on old work orders that are not getting completed. I’d like to then be able to click into the number and view the work orders. I’m not finding a lot of instruction on how to build reports within the native MX platform so if there’s any useful tutorials please point me in the right direction.

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Location limiting asset selection for request

In the request module selecting a location has no effect on which assets are available to be selected. With it being first in the order of completion you might expect that selecting a location would limit available assets to only those in that location. This would make it easier for requesters to find the asset requiring attention. If this isn’t possible you may consider showing the asset field first since location is automatically filled from the asset selection.

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ericdudley-doordashEmerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
REST API /assets endpoint filter by asset type

Hello, I’m integrating with the /assets REST API endpoint. Currently, I am just using Postman to explore the API and figure out what queries are possible.https://api.getmaintainx.com/v1/docs#tag/Assets/paths/~1assets/get I have a use case where I want to list just the assets with a certain asset type. I see from the documentation that you can expand the asset_types, but I have not found a way to filter by this field. Any ideas on how I could achieve this?

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
1 asset multiple PM frequencies

I’m hoping this is common and I just haven’t figured it out yet so asking for help from the group. If I have an asset that has a Monthly, Quarterly, and Annual PM is there a way to only have the appropriate work order auto generated? My procedures build on each other so the Annual has all steps from Monthly and Quarterly. When the Annual is due, I don’t want either of the others to be created.

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Guy Leppin
Guy LeppinEmerging Technician
posted in Product Q&A
Not enough Status

I am new to MX and may be missing something. I am accustomed to the IPSECA work process. Identify, Plan, Schedule, Execute, Close, and Analyse. I see that MX has all, but the Planning function covered. Can we add some Work Order statuses? It would be nice to have at least a “Planning” status. It would be even better if also had a “Waiting for Parts” and “Ready to Schedule”. In an organization that has many roles such as requestors, approvers, planners, schedulers, supervisors, crafts, analysts and or any combination of roles, the Work Order Status is normally data point used to designate who is responsible for the work order. The Work Order Status is the flow, or the maturity of the Work Order. With out the Planning status we have a very large to-do list. 

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