Maintenance Management/MMS/EAM

[Charles Colbourn]

Hi,

This is probably a really stupid question, and I'm hoping I'm not going to
get flamed into the ground for this but:


I'm trying to implement ( install, rather than develop ) maintenance
management facilities for a small engineering firm. We have equipment that
needs to be tracked for calibration expiry date; vehicles that have to have
MOT inspection (UK government annual roadworthiness check, if you don't know
the term); booking out of gear for individual jobs; maybe work order
tracking; maybe lists of equipment for jobs. That kind of thing, but
especially the first two.

Now, I've been poking around trying to find off the shelf stuff to do it.
It's a new field for me so it's taken a while just to find out the
appropriate terms ( CMMS/EAM/MMS ). There seems to be some suggestion that
ofbiz will do this stuff, but I've installed it and can't find /anything/ to
do with maintenance management/EAMS. When I search for documentation I just
get lots of places where the facilities of ofbiz are listed, nothing about
how to access MMS/EAM facilities within the suite.

Is this something that exists in the object model but doesn't have a front
end, or something that's planned but not yet implemented, or am I just being
stupid?

thanks,

Charles.

[Sharan-F]

HI Charles

Welcome and thanks for being interested in OFBiz. The module you are looking for is called Asset Maintenance and it does exist :-)

You are having trouble finding it because it is one of the applications that is disabled in the releases; I think if you try downloading  ofbiz 14 .12 (it hasnt been released yet) or the ofbiz trunk you should see it included in the menus.

If you are wanting to run using ofbiz 13.07 there is a way to enble it  but I'm not sure how to do it; Please can someone give Charles so info on how to enable Asset Management for 13.12

I hope this helps.

Thanks
Sharan

[Adrian Crum-3]

As Sharan mentioned in another reply, you probably need to
download/enable the Asset Maintenance application.

Also, there is some documentation on the subject:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Asset+Management

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Asset+Maintenance+Setup



Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com

On 10/28/2015 2:25 AM, Charles Colbourn wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> This is probably a really stupid question, and I'm hoping I'm not going to
> get flamed into the ground for this but:
>
>
> I'm trying to implement ( install, rather than develop ) maintenance
> management facilities for a small engineering firm. We have equipment that
> needs to be tracked for calibration expiry date; vehicles that have to have
> MOT inspection (UK government annual roadworthiness check, if you don't know
> the term); booking out of gear for individual jobs; maybe work order
> tracking; maybe lists of equipment for jobs. That kind of thing, but
> especially the first two.
>
> Now, I've been poking around trying to find off the shelf stuff to do it.
> It's a new field for me so it's taken a while just to find out the
> appropriate terms ( CMMS/EAM/MMS ). There seems to be some suggestion that
> ofbiz will do this stuff, but I've installed it and can't find /anything/ to
> do with maintenance management/EAMS. When I search for documentation I just
> get lots of places where the facilities of ofbiz are listed, nothing about
> how to access MMS/EAM facilities within the suite.
>
> Is this something that exists in the object model but doesn't have a front
> end, or something that's planned but not yet implemented, or am I just being
> stupid?
>
> thanks,
>
> Charles.
>

[Charles Colbourn]

Thanks Sharan and others, I've now got that working. I have a couple of
other questions if that's ok?

1) Does this:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5652

mean that we can't currently deploy ofbiz to an existing tomcat server? We
currently run a number of applications through tomcat and are used to using
it, so it would be useful if we can use an existing Tomcat 7 instance.

2) Is it possible to configure the ofbiz asset management component to send
emails to notify users of tasks. e.g. when a piece of equipment requires
inspection, it would be really useful to receive an email from ofbiz 2 weeks
(or some configurable time) before.

thanks again,

Charles.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharan-F [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 28 October 2015 14:17
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Maintenance Management/MMS/EAM

HI Charles

Welcome and thanks for being interested in OFBiz. The module you are looking
for is called Asset Maintenance and it does exist :-)

You are having trouble finding it because it is one of the applications that
is disabled in the releases; I think if you try downloading  ofbiz 14 .12
(it hasnt been released yet) or the ofbiz trunk you should see it included
in the menus.

If you are wanting to run using ofbiz 13.07 there is a way to enble it  but
I'm not sure how to do it; Please can someone give Charles so info on how to
enable Asset Management for 13.12

I hope this helps.

Thanks
Sharan



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[Pierre Smits]

Hi Charles,

Re: external server support
The community decided, given that there wasn't much interest in
(maintaining) that feature,  a while ago to not support external server
deployment anymore. Current 14.12 branch uses Apache Tomcat 7.0.64
libraries.

Re: mail functionality
Yes, OFBiz offers mail capabilities. But it might be so that this isn't
implemented for every wish dreamed up and it need to be realised for your
specific requirements.

Best regards,

Pierre Smits

*OFBiz Extensions Marketplace*
http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Charles Colbourn <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thanks Sharan and others, I've now got that working. I have a couple of
> other questions if that's ok?
>
> 1) Does this:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5652
>
> mean that we can't currently deploy ofbiz to an existing tomcat server? We
> currently run a number of applications through tomcat and are used to using
> it, so it would be useful if we can use an existing Tomcat 7 instance.
>
> 2) Is it possible to configure the ofbiz asset management component to send
> emails to notify users of tasks. e.g. when a piece of equipment requires
> inspection, it would be really useful to receive an email from ofbiz 2
> weeks
> (or some configurable time) before.
>
> thanks again,
>
> Charles.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharan-F [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: 28 October 2015 14:17
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: Maintenance Management/MMS/EAM
>
> HI Charles
>
> Welcome and thanks for being interested in OFBiz. The module you are
> looking
> for is called Asset Maintenance and it does exist :-)
>
> You are having trouble finding it because it is one of the applications
> that
> is disabled in the releases; I think if you try downloading  ofbiz 14 .12
> (it hasnt been released yet) or the ofbiz trunk you should see it included
> in the menus.
>
> If you are wanting to run using ofbiz 13.07 there is a way to enble it  but
> I'm not sure how to do it; Please can someone give Charles so info on how
> to
> enable Asset Management for 13.12
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
>
> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Maintenance-Management-MMS-EAM-tp4673931p4
> 673951.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>

[Adrian Crum-3]

I created a maintenance notification system for one of my clients. I
will see if I can find the source code for that.

Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com

On 10/29/2015 8:26 AM, Charles Colbourn wrote:

> Thanks Sharan and others, I've now got that working. I have a couple of
> other questions if that's ok?
>
> 1) Does this:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5652
>
> mean that we can't currently deploy ofbiz to an existing tomcat server? We
> currently run a number of applications through tomcat and are used to using
> it, so it would be useful if we can use an existing Tomcat 7 instance.
>
> 2) Is it possible to configure the ofbiz asset management component to send
> emails to notify users of tasks. e.g. when a piece of equipment requires
> inspection, it would be really useful to receive an email from ofbiz 2 weeks
> (or some configurable time) before.
>
> thanks again,
>
> Charles.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharan-F [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: 28 October 2015 14:17
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: Maintenance Management/MMS/EAM
>
> HI Charles
>
> Welcome and thanks for being interested in OFBiz. The module you are looking
> for is called Asset Maintenance and it does exist :-)
>
> You are having trouble finding it because it is one of the applications that
> is disabled in the releases; I think if you try downloading  ofbiz 14 .12
> (it hasnt been released yet) or the ofbiz trunk you should see it included
> in the menus.
>
> If you are wanting to run using ofbiz 13.07 there is a way to enble it  but
> I'm not sure how to do it; Please can someone give Charles so info on how to
> enable Asset Management for 13.12
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Maintenance-Management-MMS-EAM-tp4673931p4
> 673951.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>

[Charles Colbourn]

that would be really useful, thank you. I'm a Java dev, so I'll be able to
work out where to go with it.

Thanks also to Pierre for the information, that clarifies the situation.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Crum [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 29 October 2015 15:55
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Maintenance Management/MMS/EAM

I created a maintenance notification system for one of my clients. I will
see if I can find the source code for that.

Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com

On 10/29/2015 8:26 AM, Charles Colbourn wrote:

> Thanks Sharan and others, I've now got that working. I have a couple
> of other questions if that's ok?
>
> 1) Does this:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5652
>
> mean that we can't currently deploy ofbiz to an existing tomcat
> server? We currently run a number of applications through tomcat and
> are used to using it, so it would be useful if we can use an existing

Tomcat 7 instance.

>
> 2) Is it possible to configure the ofbiz asset management component to
> send emails to notify users of tasks. e.g. when a piece of equipment
> requires inspection, it would be really useful to receive an email
> from ofbiz 2 weeks (or some configurable time) before.
>
> thanks again,
>
> Charles.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharan-F [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: 28 October 2015 14:17
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: Maintenance Management/MMS/EAM
>
> HI Charles
>
> Welcome and thanks for being interested in OFBiz. The module you are
> looking for is called Asset Maintenance and it does exist :-)
>
> You are having trouble finding it because it is one of the
> applications that is disabled in the releases; I think if you try
> downloading  ofbiz 14 .12 (it hasnt been released yet) or the ofbiz
> trunk you should see it included in the menus.
>
> If you are wanting to run using ofbiz 13.07 there is a way to enble it  
> but I'm not sure how to do it; Please can someone give Charles so info
> on how to enable Asset Management for 13.12
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Maintenance-Management-MMS-EAM-tp467
> 3931p4
> 673951.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>