Maximo Asset Management 7.6.1.1 is now available!  

This release highlights Maximo's continued investment in asset management capabilities, with a focus on improved user experience, value add capabilities, and updates to the technical foundation.   These key new capabilities include 

Work Centers: 

Work Technician and Supervisor new features:  

• Customization options for queries and card content
• Improved methods to  report work
• Support for maps
• The use of barcode/QR scanners to find assets, locations and report on tools and items
• Easier access and processes to create new work orders
• Additional options to add planned resources
• Associate inspection records with an existing work order
• Improved meter readings capabilities allow for delta data to be input instead of only capturing the total value

Inspections now support the ability to have icons and colors added to the forms for better usability, as well as the ability to build dependencies within a set of questions in the form builder.

New administrative options for setting up service request categories.   

New supply chain work centers that allow you to create items in storerooms and manage those items with the ability to issue against reservations, transfer across storerooms, perform physical counts and manage reorder information.

Dynamic job plans:   
Added with additional options on defining resources needed to perform work with either a static, proportional, level or attribute based methodology.   Users can simulate new work based on the new options to determine the accuracy of their work and make and adjustments as needed.

Automation scripting: 
A new embedded scripting editor tool to help with code changes being made directly in Maximo rather than relying on a third party tool.  It provides line numbers, color indications and collapsible sections as well as some validation and auto completion of common functions and variables in Python and Javascript.

Miscellaneous Features:
 - Defaulting the use of current .xlsx versions when downloading data from within applications
 - CSS IoT18 skin now applied to Maximo (Mobile) Everyplace 
 - Asset Health scoring visible within the work order, asset and location details 

Licensing:
We continue to look at how Maximo can be procured and how licenses are tracked within the system with additional support within the License tracking application as well as new options to buy Token licenses for Maximo.

Currency:
Updates include support of Oracle 18c, DB2 11.1.4.4, WAS 9.0.0.10 and WebLogic 12.2.1.3.  For a full list of supported middleware see the updated compatibility matrix

The latest upgrade information is here!  Be sure to check out this great release!