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Asset tree view will be available in Calem Touch in release R2020a planned for February 2020. Calem Touch is the mobile application available from App Store and Google Play. The tree view allows one to browse asset and location by its hierarchy.  It is an option to locate an asset/location if you have a well struc...

​PM duration hours are available from work order screens so one can compare hours estimated in PM vs actual hours in work orders. This feature is available in Calem release R20 for the following screens. 1. Work Order Comments Work Order comments list shows the comments and work order information including the Duration (hours) of PM. Menu path: Wor...

​Calem inventory includes global items and site inventory.  Items have unit prices which are intended as unit prices in work order miscellaneous cost calculation when an item is used as a miscellaneous line item in work orders.  Site Inventory has average unit price that is calculated based on inventory transactions as...

​Calem has been used by organizations to manage their maintenance services. Sample use cases include: A manufacturer uses Calem Cloud Service to manage the maintenance of equipment, and spare parts. A hospital uses Calem Cloud Service to manage the inventory and maintenance of medical equipment. A transportation department uses ...

Generic items are transitional items that are purchased, used, but not stocked in storerooms. Dedicated item numbers are not intended for these items. Instead, a set of generic items are reused for this purpose. Generic items have been supported since release R20 in February 2020. Step 1. Create Generic Items A generic item can be created with...

Asset clone has been added in Calem release R20 in February 2020. You may use this feature to add an exact asset added previously. The cloning process uses the current asset's information to create the new asset including asset attributes, attachments and spare parts. The function can be launched from asset screen: Asset | Asset List | select an as...

​Videos can be embedded in PM steps in R20 release available in February 2020. Here are the steps to do it. Step 1. Create Docs for Videos Create a doc for each video to be embedded in PM steps. Menu path: Doc | Doc List |  Create a Doc Create a doc as URL and populate the URL to your Youtube video reference.  Note that you should us...

A new feature has been added to Weekly Scheduling in the Calem R20 release.  You can now do weekly schedules by teams. The first step is to set up users who can run weekly scheduling as work order planners: Organization | ACL Profiles | Monitor User Add users as work order planners for sites. Launch weekly scheduling screen from Schedule ...

Remote inventory is a feature to link warehouses from different Calem services. Here is the user story: A customer has independent business units A, B and C each with own Calem service. Each Calem service has own inventory and stock. The Remote Inventory feature allows users from one business unit to search parts in other business units, ...

A set of action menu items is available when an asset barcode is scanned from Calem Mobile. See  How to Perform Work Orders by Asset Scan . It is a lot more productive for an admin to enable only relevant barcode menu items based on user roles. This blog present the configuration steps to do it. For instance, a planner...