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Create Notifications when Equipment needs Repair / Inspection
When an equipment needs repair or inspection, you as a technician or supervisor can create a notification using the Notifications module requesting an inspection. After inspection of the equipment, the technician concerned creates a work order, if required or closes the notification if no anomaly is found.
Create a Notification
During asset maintenance tasks, if you find any anomaly that requires inspection from the technician, create a notification with the details of the equipment and the anomaly that you noticed.
Add a Cause

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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 the mWorkOrder Application
Maintain your assets using mWorkOrder, a mobile work order management solution from Innovapptive. mWorkOrder leverages SAP’s Plant Maintenance module.
Configure the mWorkOrder Application
Establish connection with the server before you start using the mWorkOrder application.
Get Started with the mWorkOrder Application
Once you connect to the server, you can login to the mWorkOrder application either using your credentials or by using App Passcode or Fingerprints.
Overview of the mWorkOrder Application
This chapter familiarizes you with the basic functionality of the mWorkOrder application.
How to use mWorkOrder in Offline mode
When the network connection is low or unstable, you can switch to offline mode and continue working. The transactions that you do in offline mode are stored in Offline Outbox. The records in the Offline Outbox are automatically posted to backend systems you switch from offline to online mode.
Monitor Asset Performance
Use the Operator Rounds module to assign a functional location or an equipment monitoring and maintenance tasks to operators. These scheduled tasks help the operator detect possible technical failures / equipment breakdown and avoid production losses.
Create Notifications when Equipment needs Repair / Inspection
When an equipment needs repair or inspection, you as a technician or supervisor can create a notification using the Notifications module requesting an inspection. After inspection of the equipment, the technician concerned creates a work order, if required or closes the notification if no anomaly is found.
- Overview of Notifications area in home screen
  You can view notifications by priority, status, and notification type in the mWorkOrder application home screen.
- Notifications Screen Overview
  This topic helps you understand how the Notifications screen is structured in the mWorkOrder application.
- Create a notification using an existing notification
  You can copy details of an existing notification and create a new notification quickly. This powerful feature eliminates the need for entering recurrent information and saves precious time. When you copy an existing notification to create a new one, the entire data is copied except attachments, history, and user status.
- Create a Notification
  During asset maintenance tasks, if you find any anomaly that requires inspection from the technician, create a notification with the details of the equipment and the anomaly that you noticed.
  - Add Causes, Activities, and Tasks within an Item
    You can now add causes, activities and tasks to an item all at one single tab.
  - Add Items to a Notification
  - Add an Activity
  - Add a Cause
  - Add Attachments to Notifications
    You can add an image, video, PDF attachments, and external URL links to the notification to provide additional information related to the maintenance or repair.
  - View Item, and Cause, Activity and Task at One Place (Reliability Tab)
    When there is a one-to-one relationship between an Item, Cause, and Activity, you can access all the sets of information in a single location, with a tab labeled ‘Reliability’ configured using RACE.
  - Copy Causes, Tasks, and Activities
    You can copy existing Causes, Tasks, and Activities and use them to create new ones.
  - View Measurement Documents
    If a measurement document is added to a notification, you view the details from the Notifications screen.
  - 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.
  - 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.
- Release a 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.
- Convert Notification into a Work Order
- Complete a Notification
  A technician inspects the equipment based on the notification and creates a work order if the equipment needs repair or maintenance. However, if the technician finds that the equipment does not require repair, the technician can close the notifications after inspection.
- 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, Assign and Execute Jobs / Work Orders
A Work Order refers to a job order created by a quality inspector for maintenance or repair of an equipment. The work order, once raised, is sent to plant personnel.
Ensure Periodic Service to Equipment and Functional Locations
Create service notifications, service orders, document service completion and record all details of work done and track entire service history of equipment and functional location right within the mWorkOrder application.
Create and Use Time Sheets
Use the Time Sheets module to create time sheets for yourself and your team members.
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 quantities of materials at a plant.
Confirm validation of materials at a plant
Create and Use Functional Locations
A Functional Location is the place where equipment is installed and maintained.
Check Plant and Storage Location Stock
If you are using Stock Overview module, check the following link,
Add and Use 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.
Search and View Technical Objects
Use the Technical Objects module to search and view technical objects such as Equipment and Functional Locations. This module helps you retrieve the information from both Equipment and Functional location lists based on your search.
Create and Use 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.
Application UI Across Different Platforms and Form Factors
This section showcases the UI across different form factors and platforms for this application.

Add a Cause

To add a root cause to a notification, do the following tasks:

In the right section of the New Notification screen, tap the Causes tab and then tap .
Under Add Cause:
1. In the Item field, select the item code.
2. In the Causes Code Group field, select the cause group code.
  Figure 1. Add Cause to a Notification
3. Tap Save.
4. Tap Yes in the confirmation window.
  The cause gets added and is displayed under Causes. The description associated with the selected value is also displayed. For example, the description of the Causes Code Group is displayed along with the code group that is selected.