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1) Will you transport your old history to the new system? Sometimes it is better to start over from scratch.

Very difficult to insert in the new system the order history present in the old CMMS.
Be sure to maintain a crossreference spreadsheet with (at least) the following columns:
New Number, Old Number, Equipment Description, Model Number, Serial Number, Location
Then re-label the equipment history files.

can any1 give me the downfalls of a numbering system where it is sequential. i just think this is the easiest way to do it as now cmms's have so many fields you can enter data (manufacture, serial number, asset type, ect) and thus easy to find what you are looking for.

i have:
aa-bbbb-ccccc
aa = production line
bbbb = area in production line
ccccc = sequential numbering starting from 00001 to 10000.

the sequential number is the number that stays with the asset through out its useful life.

only problem is when you add new equipment in an area it will be out of sequence.

any comments

Downfalls of a numeric system:

I think the maior downfall is when you put too much intelligence in it, you could end up being the only one understanding the numbering logic.

If your number do not match what is out there on the floor.. imagine the junk that will be entered by others.

Look it from another view, now you are setting up the system, if two years from now you move on (higher in the food chain, other function, other companie), would you liked to be bothered with phonecalls like "Hey Coops, we have a new pump, how do we call it?"
Since I am a very lazy person, I like to make things "Idiot Proof"

My favorite computer books are:
PC's for dummies, and other Idiots Guides

I repeat my statement:
Someone will buy some weird equipment that will chalenge your logic

It can be a simple pump on the sewer system

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In this module, the user doesn't have to enter the asset number. they can if they know it but its not essential as they use the asset register

Use the asset register? In this 21th century, some operater sitting behind a computer and look something up in a book or agenda?
Here they were complaining about the "work" to type in a work request. They asked for some device that would scan the tag on the equipment, had voice recognition so they could "talk" the work request in the system from outside, without ever coming close to a terminal

Mmmm ... I should try to program a link or integration between "Dragon Naturally Speaking" application to SAP R/3, Maximo, and the like and then go to retirement to enjoy $$$ .
http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/

Another example of inventing the need for a solution?

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