HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intergraph Corp. has released SmartPlant® Enterprise for Owner Operators (SPO), a solution dedicated to owner operators. SPO is a new member of Intergraph’s widely adopted and proven SmartPlant Enterprise family of products.

Designed as an out-of-the-box configuration with predefined integrated work processes, SPO enables owner operators to manage their plant engineering design basis and synchronize it with operations and maintenance needs to increase interoperability throughout the plant life cycle and ensures fast-track implementation. 

From the SAP Discussion Group at MaintenanceForums.com

Can some one explain how yearly budget that is defined for a Cost Center is linked to individual orders?

How can the cost control for each Maintenance order be managed to ensure that the total cost does not exceed the budget?

BobV

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Making use of the “favorites” menu provided in SAP4.6 (and above) can save allot of time in accessing frequently used transactions quickly rather than having to use the tree navigation method or using manual a list to remember the codes (historically a printed list kept near the keyboard).

Management of the favorites menu can also provide a large benefit in time saving. Creating small sets of logical groupings e.g. “Maintenance Plan related” or “Work order related” folders and renaming the transactions in the favorites menu can optimize browsing within the SAP GUI.

Investing 10-15 minutes to optimize you favorites menu can result in continuous daily time savings and far less frustration when accessing SAP transactions.

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Sappi Saiccor
Umkomaas South Africa

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by Ken Latino, CMRP
Practical Reliability Group

There are many opinions about the use of the breakdown flag in SAP-PM. I would like to offer my opinion on this debate. First of all, I do not like the term “breakdown”. With a name like breakdown, nobody will want to check the box! No one likes to admit that a something has failed or is broken. I wish the field was named “reliability event” to take away this negative connotation. More…

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Source: ITPro.co.uk

New research released today reinforces comments made by SAP UK managing director last year that users are failing to exploit the full potential of the vendor’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

Jan 14 2008 - With more than 500 expected attendees, the bi-annual Maximo Middle East User Group Conference will feature experts speaking on best practices, increased efficiency and efficacy

Dubai - eSolutions Maximo, the IBM Business Partner for IBM Maximo Sofware, Asset and Service Management in the Middle East and North Africa, announced today they have been elevated to an IBM Premier Business Partner for the year 2008. The eSolutions Maximo Middle East User Group Conference is held under the patronage of H.E. Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi, the UAE Minister of Economy and will run for three days from 14th -16th January, 2008 with the theme ‘Innovation that Matters’ at the Intercontinental Hotel in Dubai Festival City. 

TORONTO, Jan. 10 —Today, NRX, a market leader in asset information management solutions, announced that its Asset Center solution has become an SAP-endorsed business solution.

SAP AG and NRX will market Asset Center globally and across a wide variety of asset-intensive industries, such as process and discrete manufacturing, utilities, the public sector, and defense & security industries. Current NRX customers include leading companies in their respective industries, such as Chevron, Valero Energy, Petro-Canada, Fluor Corporation, Bechtel, American Electric Power, Conectiv Energy, and Masterfoods.

Info Drive Software has made an expression of interest, to acquire 100% stake in an IT Consulting company that has a strong specialization in SAP related services in the US market. Info Drive is looking at completing the acquisition by February 2008.