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Do Gooder (Customer)
bjarkiDo Gooder (Customer)
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Is AeroRepair API on IFS agenda

IFS Maintenix already have developed API for AeroBuy from AeroExchange few years ago (pre-Covid). Do you know if there is on IFS agenda to add API for AeroRepair ? I know there are Maintenix customer is already using AeroRepair module from AeroExchange and each one is using their internal method of trying to automate processes between Maintenix and AeroRepair.

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Do Gooder (Employee)
1 month ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
J.T.Do Gooder (Customer)
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Stock Details History Tab

Description•Add a History tab in Stock Details, to see updates and changes made in Stock details.Impact•Restock levels and automatic restock actions changes need to be reviewed via periodic analysis.  Need historical change information to tie to the outcome of those changes.Role•Inventory PlanningFrequency•Daily

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Do Gooder (Customer)
1 month ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
e94282Do Gooder (Customer)
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Managing Tasks requiring accomplishment with a defined Minimum and Maximum Usage window. Tasks that must be accomplished after but before a defined schedule parameter

Southwest Airlines would like to know how other operators manage Tasks that require accomplishment after a minimum usage but before a maximum usage.   Plan after but Before a specified scheduling parameter.  example: Task must be accomplished after 10 flight cycles (FC) and before 25 flight cycles after initialization.   Task must be accomplished 4 times and then terminate: Accomplished between 50-100 FC Accomplished between 150-200 FC Accomplished between 250-300 FC Accomplished between 350-400 FC terminates  Terminates after 4th accomplishment  

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
1 month ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
cwood
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Issue with Installing Jasper Studio 9.0.0 for custom reports

With the upgrade to Maintenix 8.3 SP10, we need to upgrade JasperReports Server to version 9.0.0, this is fine, we’ve already installed it on our Dev box. We have a lot of custom reports and we have used Jasper Studio in the past to develop and publish reports. Unfortunately, it looks like Jasper Studio 9.0.0 now needs an internet connection to log into the Jaspersoft community before we can use it. Our Dev box (and all our servers) are not allowed to be on the internet due to ITAR constraints, we also aren’t allowed to install software on our local machines due to our company security policy. We have a lot of security restrictions that make this process difficult.We’re talking to our Infrastructure team to try and find a solution and are wondering if anyone else has run into this issue and how they have solved it. 

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Do Gooder (Customer)
2 months ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
AStellingDo Gooder (Customer)
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How to handle banned parts

Do other operators have a way they prevent the purchase and receipt of banned parts? Specific inventory at the P/N and S/N level.

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
3 months ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
Deeliteful10Do Gooder (Customer)
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Removing batched stock that is not issued to an aircraft

As everyone knows, doing anything ADHOC in Maintenix creates multiple “behind the scenes” issues that cause massive data base clean up to have to take place.  However, the question arises: how do you remove batched inventory from the system when it is not used on an actual aircraft?  An example of this is when a bowser is serviced, oil and filters are used to maintain the bowser.  These items would not be issued to an aircraft, as they are not used on an aircraft.  This leaves the airline with two choices: a) do an ADHOC issue or b) adjust out the stock.  As mentioned above, if an ADHOC issue is performed, this can often times create an ADHOC request that never closes.  It is not obviously seen, so you typically find it when a station keeps receiving stock from the main supplier location for an item they already have plenty of stock on. If the Stock Adjustment is the preferred method, for ATI, we only have just a certain few individuals that have the ability to adjust out stock, as we

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Do Gooder (Customer)
3 months ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
HiyawDo Gooder (Customer)
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MAINTENIX and SAP integration for Maintenance Crew management?

Is it possible to integrate MAINTENIX and SAP for Maintenance Crew management? The Crew Roster is managed by SAP and I was wandering if the data can be imported to Maintenix for Maintenance Crew Management.

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Do Gooder (Employee)
3 months ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
GavDo Gooder (Customer)
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Unicode characters in Job Card Steps

Hi All,Qantas currently has an open issue with IFS for Job Card Steps with “special” characters causing HTML formatting on the Task Card report to fail.  This can also cause job card steps to appear to have been edited when using show differences however it is not apparent to the task writer what has been changed.It looks like it is caused by some character encoding conversion when a task is revised.  This is only an issue since we moved to 8.3SP5, possibly related to the data type change of the step_ldesc to CLOB.  Generally this is caused when content is copied from an MS office application that has tried to be helpful and replace a " with a “.  When the task is revised, this character is replaced with a space and an ascii DC3 character(0x19).  Its these control characters that cause the Jasper reports to stop trying to apply the formatting correctly.We’re interested to learn if other operators, especially those with languages that use characters not in the latin-1 character set, hav

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Do Gooder (Employee)
4 months ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
Hafdis OlafsdottirDo Gooder (Customer)
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Bulk transfer in Maintenix

How do you transfer multiple inventories between locations in Maintenix?   For example, when re-organizing items in the Warehouse. 

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Hero (Employee)
5 months ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
Laurij16Do Gooder (Customer)
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Are work packages automatically generated in 8.1 sp3 of Maintenix and what auto generates them??

Trying to figure out how work packages get auto generated in MXI 8.1.

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
6 months ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
MaintenixUser1Sidekick (Customer)
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Can Status Board Headers be made Stick/Fixed on scroll?

Column data content is not always intuitive.Just noticed the Fleet due list tab header is also not sticky.

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
8 months ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
rbsauerDo Gooder (Customer)
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Oracle 23C support with Maintenix

Our company direction is to move to Oracle 23C in 2024.  What are the plans for IFS Maintenix on-premises to move to Oracle 23C?

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
9 months ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
REGDDo Gooder (Customer)
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Does anyone know how KIT contents is tagged within the Data Base, that it is "IN KIT"?

We are trying to identify which assets are in a kit for a Jasper Report. We wish to exclude inventory that is in a kit from the Total Stock Holding.Thanks for any advise.

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Do Gooder (Customer)
9 months ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
OlivierAFSidekick (Customer)
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Fault Definition use of Failure Category and Failure Type Field?

Failure Category & Fault Priority Field, are BASELINE defined by Fault Definition and not modifiable on ACTUALSFault Type field, is BASELINE & ACTUAL modifiableCan IFS advise is a Parent / Child relation between Failure Category & Failure type exist ? How IFS would recommend tio uses those type of fields with Fault Definition?And finalys how to set up Fault Priority to have them reflecting a priority according to the Fault Definition? 

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
9 months ago
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Do Gooder
Ye KasaDo Gooder
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What does IETM means or stands for?

I just want to know what IETM stands for

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Chris.Tharme
Do Gooder (Customer)
10 months ago
slcreese
Sidekick (Customer)
slcreeseSidekick (Customer)
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How do Operators track LOTO (lock-out/tag-out) within Maintenix

Southwest Airlines is curious how other operators manage tracking of locked-out/tagged-out (LOTO) within Maintenix.  Specifically, do you have a method to track which circuit breakers have been locked out during a check, including who locked it out and for what task, or do you handle that externally?Sincerely,Shon Creese 

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Do Gooder (Customer)
10 months ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
e94282Do Gooder (Customer)
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Demoting and Promoting Parts Best practice

Southwest is currently working through demoting of parts.  We are wondering if any other carries have any feedback on demoting parts when any of following apply:Managing demotion of a part when in multiple part groups and/or TRK slots Updating open ROs after performing a part demotion  Active task definition  Open Borrow orders  

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Do Gooder (Customer)
10 months ago
slcreese
Sidekick (Customer)
slcreeseSidekick (Customer)
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Tool Kits

Southwest Airlines is interested in understanding how other operators setup tool kits in Maintenix and provide visibility to batch tools that are included in these kits.  We set up Tool kits as assemblies since Maintenix does not have tool kitting capability, and an assembly approach was the best choice provided by IFS at the time.  Tool kits WILL show serialized tools as children of kits, however batched “TOOLS” i.e. sockets, extensions, etc. are NOT showing in kits because they are issued out of stock to be put into the kit.  Batched inventory is never shown as installed on assemblies.The issue we are having is that Technicians do not have visibility to inventory that is contained in these kits.  We often have to AOG parts, when in reality the inventory was in kits that were in stock.  Southwest Airlines is curious how other operators are managing this gap in functionality.  We are at creating an external database to track the batch parts contained in a tool kit, but this is not idea

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
11 months ago
slcreese
Sidekick (Customer)
slcreeseSidekick (Customer)
posted in IFS Maintenix
Flight Disruption Functionality

Curious to get feedback from other Operators who are using the Flight Disruption functionality in Maintenix.  Southwest uses other sources and means to record and track delays and cancels but we are exploring doing this within Maintenix and I was interested in getting feedback from those currently using this functionality.Best Regards,Shon Creese 

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Do Gooder (Customer)
1 year ago
slcreese
Sidekick (Customer)
slcreeseSidekick (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix
How are users utilizing the "Ship or Shelf" process in Maintenix?

Southwest had a ship-or-shelf (SOS) program where they examine the part (quarantine) then decide if the part needs to be shipped for repair.  Southwest would like the system to auto quarantine certain parts (and also have removal reason be one of the drivers for the automation). There is a ship-or-shelf checkmark available in Maintenix, but it is for information purposes only, doesn't have any logic built into it. Curious how/if other Operators have a ship-or-shelf (SOS) program and if so how are they managing that in Maintenix, if at all.    

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Do Gooder (Employee)
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
MagnusFDo Gooder (Customer)
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Document references Use cases

In an old Maintenix Fundamentals Guide(8.1) there are a lot of references to SAS Use Case XXX, are those available somewhere on Your site? 

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Do Gooder (Customer)
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
EsayasTDo Gooder (Customer)
posted in IFS Maintenix
Usage Data (TSI, TSO, TSN) Negative

Dears,Greetings,My company Ethiopian airlines using Maintenix, later called IFS Maintenix, starting from 2011 GC.I would appreciate on hereinafter issue, how and why component usage data in particular mentioned at the title become negative, zero. Accordingly, the other positive figure also not real.kind regards;

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
AStellingDo Gooder (Customer)
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Batch, part-number based task completions

SWA has noted that you cannot find BATCH part-number based tasks while using the Task Search function. We see that if a task has been completed that you should be able to find it via the Task Search. We were able to see the task completions while reviewing the parent Requirement and Inventory details history. Do any other operators have a better way to search for BATCH, P/N based requirement tasks?

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
1 year ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
MaintenixUser1Sidekick (Customer)
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workpackage Assigned Tasks Tab

Hi All,Wondering if there is a way we can hide the assigned tasks tab of a work package from specific user groups. Reason: we are seeing an organisational impact with maintenance exection teams attempting to justify deferring maintenance as they can see the remaining compliance limits. This control is not in their jurisdiction to interrogate.Wondering if other Airlines have seen/heard similar. Thanks,

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
1 year ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
OlivierAFSidekick (Customer)
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Finding a way to administrate Fault Definition (FD) in MTX

Increased use of FD get more frequent FD need to be removed.A FD cannot be obsoleted or deleted from the CS it was created.Today the FD are renamed starting by "OBSOLETED" which is not correct for end user in the GUI. Potential solution identified are :RSTAT2 the FD? Move the FD into an unused organisation? Any other solution?

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
1 year ago

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