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53 Topics

J
Do Gooder (Customer)
J.T.Do Gooder (Customer)
posted in IFS Maintenix

Better audit trail for Shipments

Description: •Currently we can only identify when a status change occurs, such as Created, Shipped etc..•If there is a correction made, or a change such as adding more inventory lines, changing the destination, or changing the airwaybill, it is not being captured.Impact: •Cannot tell if there has been an automated change.•Parts may not reach their destination in a timely manner.Role:Stores 

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J
Do Gooder (Customer)
5 days ago
J
Do Gooder (Customer)
J.T.Do Gooder (Customer)
posted in IFS Maintenix

Improve Audit Trail for Bin Updates

There is a lack of audit trail on bin location detailsBinned to/from Changed a name When it was added as a bin levelMaintenix should provide better historical tracking on when bin updates are made

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D
Do Gooder (Customer)
6 days ago
H
Do Gooder (Customer)
Hafdis OlafsdottirDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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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H
Hero (Employee)
8 days ago
H
Do Gooder (Customer)
HiyawDo Gooder (Customer)
posted in IFS Maintenix

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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H
Do Gooder (Customer)
12 days ago
G
Do Gooder (Customer)
GavDo Gooder (Customer)
posted in IFS Maintenix

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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G
Do Gooder (Customer)
12 days ago
L
Do Gooder (Customer)
Laurij16Do Gooder (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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)
1 month ago
M
Sidekick (Customer)
MaintenixUser1Sidekick (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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)
3 months ago
R
Do Gooder (Customer)
rbsauerDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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)
4 months ago
A
Do Gooder (Customer)
AStellingDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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)
4 months ago
R
Do Gooder (Customer)
REGDDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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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R
Do Gooder (Customer)
4 months ago
O
Sidekick (Customer)
OlivierAFSidekick (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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)
4 months ago
Y
Do Gooder
Ye KasaDo Gooder
asked in IFS Maintenix

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)
5 months ago
slcreese
Sidekick (Customer)
slcreeseSidekick (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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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R
Do Gooder (Customer)
5 months ago
E
Do Gooder (Customer)
e94282Do Gooder (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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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A
Do Gooder (Customer)
5 months ago
slcreese
Sidekick (Customer)
slcreeseSidekick (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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)
6 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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B
Do Gooder (Customer)
8 months 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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S
Do Gooder (Employee)
9 months ago
M
Do Gooder (Customer)
MagnusFDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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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M
Do Gooder (Customer)
10 months ago
E
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)
10 months ago
A
Do Gooder (Customer)
AStellingDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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)
10 months ago
M
Sidekick (Customer)
MaintenixUser1Sidekick (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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)
10 months ago
O
Sidekick (Customer)
OlivierAFSidekick (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

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
L
Do Gooder (Customer)
Laurij16Do Gooder (Customer)
asked in IFS Maintenix

Continued use of MXI 8.1 sp3

Hi - We would like to keep using MXI v 8.1 sp3 until the end of 2027.  The plan is to request new license keys yearly in Jan 2024, Jan 2025 and Jan 2026.  Is there any issue with continuing to use version 8.1 sp3 until then?  Would there be any additional fees that we would be charged to keep using this version and get yearly license keys?

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Nadine
Do Gooder (Employee)
1 year ago
7
Do Gooder
737spannerDo Gooder
posted in IFS Maintenix

Maintenix terms

Why does Maintenix use use terms that are not industry standard?  Two examples come immediately to mind:  The term “record oil uptake”  should be “record oil service” and  using the term “inventory” when ATA codes are the industry standard.Granted both are minor issues but it illustrates a point.  That point is there seeming no consulting the people that actually use Maintenix.  The people that use Maintenix in high stress environments such as turning aircraft under time constraints. 

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Robert Bellemare
Hero (Employee)
1 year ago
M
Do Gooder (Partner)
MrHaDo Gooder (Partner)
asked in IFS Maintenix

Where can I find info about Maintenix Analytics (MAA)?

I remember there was some talk at one time about an analysis module for Maintenix.  Is there any recent information or documentation for it?

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M
Do Gooder (Partner)
1 year ago

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