Thanks for the additional info. I think it will work OK for us. The maintenance guys will be in charge or managing their own use of the system. They can print it themselves.
-Todd C.
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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of k99ja04
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:07 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: OT: Machine Maintenance Tracker
The PM reminders (mostly) works, but the catch is you have to manually run it each time. We had issues with some annual and quarterly PMs that just wouldn't generate so we had to create work orders manually. But 95% of the time the PM reminders screen does fine. There is a table with a single field in the Access database that updates the last time the program runs. Support had me trick it a few times and set the date back a day to try and jump start those PMs. Some just wouldn't go, and I have no idea why.
Running the PM reminders screen each morning wasn't an option for us because we have shop guys that clock in at 5am and need PMs for that day. The office person responsible for maintenance records doesn't get here until 7am. Why a shop employee couldn't be trusted to print PMs I don't know, but that was a decision made over my head.
So we set the software to run PMs automatically (which as I said is hardcoded for 1am) and then set it to automatically email them a PM summary. I don't know why (and neither does support) but this process misses PMs.
Prior to my joining the company, the office person was changing the system date to print PMs ahead of schedule. She would start on Monday, and change ahead by 1 day until she had the entire week. Now changing the system date screws up other things like oh I don't know, Active Directory authentication, so I quickly put an end to that.
I guess if you're flexible about when you need your PMs then you should be ok. I basically gave up in September and have yet to hear about the update I described.
The last thing I'll mention is performance. Our Access database is about 90megs and running over a network share the program can be a real dog.
Jared
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Jared Allmond
IT Systems Administrator
Wright Coating Technologies
jallmond@...<mailto:jallmond%40wrightcoating.com>
-Todd C.
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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of k99ja04
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:07 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: OT: Machine Maintenance Tracker
The PM reminders (mostly) works, but the catch is you have to manually run it each time. We had issues with some annual and quarterly PMs that just wouldn't generate so we had to create work orders manually. But 95% of the time the PM reminders screen does fine. There is a table with a single field in the Access database that updates the last time the program runs. Support had me trick it a few times and set the date back a day to try and jump start those PMs. Some just wouldn't go, and I have no idea why.
Running the PM reminders screen each morning wasn't an option for us because we have shop guys that clock in at 5am and need PMs for that day. The office person responsible for maintenance records doesn't get here until 7am. Why a shop employee couldn't be trusted to print PMs I don't know, but that was a decision made over my head.
So we set the software to run PMs automatically (which as I said is hardcoded for 1am) and then set it to automatically email them a PM summary. I don't know why (and neither does support) but this process misses PMs.
Prior to my joining the company, the office person was changing the system date to print PMs ahead of schedule. She would start on Monday, and change ahead by 1 day until she had the entire week. Now changing the system date screws up other things like oh I don't know, Active Directory authentication, so I quickly put an end to that.
I guess if you're flexible about when you need your PMs then you should be ok. I basically gave up in September and have yet to hear about the update I described.
The last thing I'll mention is performance. Our Access database is about 90megs and running over a network share the program can be a real dog.
Jared
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Jared Allmond
IT Systems Administrator
Wright Coating Technologies
jallmond@...<mailto:jallmond%40wrightcoating.com>
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>, Todd Caughey <caugheyt@...> wrote:
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> This is good to know. Thanks for the heads up. We have not gotten as far as setting up PM schedules. Phase one (so I can learn the system) is setting up IT for requests and tracking status. Our Maintenance guys are entering equipment now so will probably play with PM by next month. I'll make sure our Plant Manager and Dir. of Operations know about the issues and be on the lookout for problems with automatic PM. Does the "PM Reminders" on Bigfoot startup work or does it also miss PMs?
>
> This is a little far afield from Vantage so feel free to reply off-list. caugheyt@...<mailto:caugheyt@...>
>
> Thanks,
> -Todd C.
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