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Create Notifications when Equipment needs Maintenance / Repair
When an equipment needs repair or maintenance, you as a technician or supervisor can create a notification using the Notifications module requesting an inspection. After inspection of the equipment, a work order is created, if required.
Understand the Notification Screen

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Copyright and Terms of Use page for mWorkOrder.
Preface
Understand audience, know related documents and products and conventions followed in this document.
About mWorkOrder
Maintain your assets using mWorkOrder, a mobile work order management solution from Innovapptive. mWorkOrder leverages SAP’s Plant Maintenance module.
Configuring mWorkOrder
Establish connection with the server before you can use mWorkOrder.
Login to mWorkOrder
Once you connect to the server, you can login to mWorkOrder either with your credentials or by using App Passcode or Fingerprints.
Understanding and Working with mWorkOrder
This chapter familiarizes you with the basic functionality of the mWorkOrder application.
Create Notifications when Equipment needs Maintenance / Repair
When an equipment needs repair or maintenance, you as a technician or supervisor can create a notification using the Notifications module requesting an inspection. After inspection of the equipment, a work order is created, if required.
- Understand the Notification Screen
- Create a Notification when Equipment Needs Maintenance / Repair
- View Notifications Created for Equipment or Functional Location
  You can view the history of notifications that were created for an equipment or a functional location.
- View Measurement Documents
  If a measurement document is added to a notification, you view the details from the Notifications screen.
- Release Notification
  Once you finish creating a notification, you must release it so that the technician can view the notification and create a work order for the same.
- Add embedded forms to a Notification
  Add embedded forms to a notification so that the technician captures additional details of the task(s) related to the Notification. For example, filling in a checklist and inspection entry form.
- Complete a Notification
  When the notification is created, a technician inspects the equipment and creates a work order if the equipment needs repair or maintenance activity. However, if it does not require any repair, technician can close the notification after inspection.
- Create a New Notification Using an Existing Notification
  You can copy details of an existing notification make changes wherever required and create a new Notification. The eliminates the need for entering recurrent information. When you use an existing notification to create a new one, the entire data is copied but for attachments, history, and user status.
- View equipment, functional location and work order Details
  You can view the equipment, functional location and work order details from the Notification screen.
- View Push Notification for Notifications
  Push notification is an instant message that notifies users about any action taken or changes made to the notification.
Create a Job / Work Orders for Equipment that needs Maintenance / Repair
A Work Order refers to a job order created by quality inspector for maintenance or repair of an equipment. The work order, once raised, is sent to plant personnel.
Monitor Asset Performance using Operator Rounds
An Operator Round is a task that is assigned to the operator who is responsible for a Functional Location or an Equipment maintenance in a Plant. This task helps the operator monitor performance of an asset and detect possible technical failures / equipment breakdown and avoid production losses.
Assign crew to work center and schedule jobs
Create forms and capture & post data using Forms
Create forms (standalone) like checklists, emergency inspection and risk assessment forms and assign them to your team (field service technicians) to capture and post data.
Inspect materials at a plant
Inspection Lot is a formal request, which is sent to a plant for examining specific quantity of materials at a plant.
Confirm validation of materials at a plant
Creating and Using Functional Locations
A Functional Location is the place where equipment is installed and maintained.
Adding and Using Equipment Details
Equipment refers to the product/machine that needs to be maintained or repaired and this module helps you search the Equipment based on number, description, and location.
Creating and Using Measuring Points
Measuring Points refer to the physical and/or logical metrics at an instance. For example, the temperature of a boiler at a specific time or the revolutions per minute (rpm) of a motor.
Creating and Using Time Sheets
Use Time Sheets module to create time sheets for you and your team members.
Application UI Across Different Platforms and Form Factors
This section showcases the UI across different form factors and platforms for this application.

Understand the Notification Screen

Notification screen has two columns:

Image of Notifications screen — Figure 1. Notifications Screen

The left side column contains:

Notifications sorted by dates along with descriptions
Search box to search notification. For more information, see Search Items and Tasks in Modules
Sort button to sort out the notifications. For more information, see Sort Records
Filter button to filter the notifications. For more information, see Filter Records

The right-side column displays the information related to the notifications that you selected in the left side column. The column contains multiple tabs for each tab you see the following information:

Notification: View details like Functional Location, Equipment, Description, Notification Type, Priority, Notification Date, Notification Time, and so on.
Items: View the line items associated with the notification.
Causes: View the possible scenarios for a failure of a component.
Tasks: View the task that needs to be done for completing a work order.
Activities: View the activities that need to be performed for completing a task related to a specific work order.
History: View the history of updates done to the notification.
Attachments: View the files associated with the notification.
Embedded Form: Name of the form is shown as a tab and when you click the tab, you can view the fields defined for the form. Embedded form is displayed with other associated forms related to the notification.
Note: The screen sequence for all these tabs can be configured through RACE.
Release: Once you finish creating a notification, release it so that the technician can view it and create a work order based on this notification
Edit: You can edit the notification the same way you create which is modifying the data in the fields and screens that you have added while creating a notification. For information, see Create a Notification when Equipment Needs Maintenance / Repair