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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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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
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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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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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Child asset down driving parent asset downtime

Is there a way to set up a relationship so that if a child asset is down it also causes the parent to show as down?

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MentorEmerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
Pulling Custom Labels via API

Hello, I am new to MaintainX and I have been trying to do some integration with our system as it has been quickly adopted by many of our end users. I have had success with the API calls offered. Specifically, I am using the List Work Orders pulling into PowerBI. However, our team has added some custom labels and custom fields. We use a custom Work Type label instead of the built-in Work Type selection. How do I pull in these custom fields? 

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Rob MEmerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
Critical Parts

Very simple question:  I want to label a part as a Critical Part?  I’m in edit part ,and I do not see any options to label a part as critical.Thanks

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Asset warranty tracking

I haven’t seen any means of tracking warranty information for assets, does MaintainX have the capability?

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SiyandaEmerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
Balancing Work Order Visibility and Individual Accountability

How can we make a work order visible to the entire team while still assigning it to an individual? The goal is to keep everyone informed about the status and updates without requiring them to search for the WO, while ensuring that one person remains accountable for the work. This approach also allows for a smooth handover if someone, for example, is on sick leave.

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
WO time reporting with multiple techs

I like the ease of recording time on the mobile app but I can’t figure out how to capture time for any additional techs that work the job. We have some jobs that take multiple shifts to complete and will have several people working on a single work order. I need the ability to see labor for everyone that worked the job and how much time they put in on the job. Any help is greatly appreciated.Regards,John

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JCathey
JCatheyJunior Specialist
asked in Product Q&A
Asset Identifiers

When I create a new asset does the system automatically create a unique id number for it? In the tutorial it stated to include a unique identifier to enable searches for specific assets. In other systems there is an ID# and description, how does MaintainX handle this?

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nick.sankar
nick.sankarMaintainX Community Team
posted in Product Q&A
Who's excited about External Work Orders? How would you use?

To my MaintainX community, this has been one of my favorite feature releases this year and it opens up many options to share your Work Orders with Vendors or Customers to complete.I would love to hear your thoughts about this feature and how you would use in your org?

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Y. JiangEmerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
Manage the life cycle of parts

How can we effectively manage the life cycle of parts in MaintainX?I understand that we can add an expiration date to a part, but what if we have multiple quantities of the same part, each with a different expiration date?For example, let's say I create a part called "AAA Batteries" and have 10 units in stock, but they each have different expiration dates.How should we handle this scenario? Is there any feature or method in MaintainX that supports tracking expiration dates at the unit or batch level?

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Sir BobEmerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
priority

HI! is there a way to add a priority choice?

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Eric F.Emerging Technician
asked in Industry Q&A
How to associate electrical parts in large enclosures with assets

Hello,We are working to setup our MaintainX CMMS. I am curious what you all do in the following situation.  Example: we have a cooking kettle as a parent asset in a processing room location The kettle has associated valves, pumps, mixer/agitator, gearmotor, etc. which seem to make sense to be child assets of the kettle.  On the other hand, we have electrical enclosures that might have 6 VFDs, many circuit breakers, fuses, harmonic filters, PLCs, etc inside. The equipment in the enclosure powers and controls 6 different assets. If the VFD for the kettle product pump motor is in the electrical enclosure, do you all make the VFD a child asset of the parent kettle asset?, or do you make the electrical enclosure the parent asset and everything of great enough value inside the enclosure is a child asset of the electrical enclosure?Or would you have a parent electrical asset for each production room and then breaker panels, electrical enclosures and everything inside, conduits/wiring in the r

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Guy Leppin
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LilburneEmerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
Asset Condition Assessment

Is there a way to assign a condition rating “1-5” to my assets, update the rating from 6 monthly visual assessments and track the changes in condition rating over time?   Thanks,Ben

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Jam95Emerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
How do I remove the hourly pay ?

When I add time track to a work order I filled in the pay rate I make, not knowing it would lock it in permeantly. I want pay removed from the time tracker… Can this be done?   I have talked to customer service, and they said they fixed it, but they did not.  I need it removed for 2 reasons I don't need my staff seeing how much I make, and it also distorts my monthly supply amounts, please help me get rid of the it LOL.

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Bigdog9598Emerging Technician
asked in Product Q&A
work order repeating

hello all, Looking for a way to repeat a work order hourly. I have several pieces of equipment that require hourly inspections while running.I am trying to avoid making 24 work orders for every day that this inspection is required. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Thanks Tom 

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