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An option to speed up work order list views is available in the coming release of Calem R2026 (January 2026). Layered queries are used to calculate work order Ids for a list view before populating the presentation data.  The option is especially valuable for clients with large set of work orders in Calem with many years of historical...

A shared search can be made required in the coming release of Calem R2026. A required search cannot be removed by end users. One may create a limited data views through required searches. Here're the steps to set a search as required. An admin user with search admin permission can set up required searches. See this blog for more info. Cli...

Work orders can be created for a CAPA case from the Evaluation tab of the CAPA form. Permissions to create a WO are granted to users with roles to manage a CAPA including: Principal Investigators (PIs), CAPA Planners, and users assign to action and evaluation roles.The work order creation screen is launched with asset and location of the ...

Failure Set is renamed to Failure Category in release R2025h (December 2025). It makes sense for an end user to describe failures by failure categories when creating a request for a failure. Precise technical failures are deferred to technical staff when completing a work order. Additionally, the term of ...

Asset priorities are surfaced in inventory parts based on asset bill of material (BOM) in release R2025h. They can be used to prioritize inventory management. For instance, inventory parts used by critical assets should be of class A or B, while parts for non-critical assets may be of class C. The asset priority for an inventory part is c...

Dashboard KPIs have been added for work permits in release R2025h (December 2025). They include work permits per month by permit types and statuses at Dashboard | Summary page.  Permit by Type - Permits created monthly by permit types.Permit by Status - Permits activated in a month vs permits created in a month that are inactive.Use ...

Tariff cost is added in the coming release of Calem R2025h (December 2025). Tariff cost of a PO may be updated through inventory transaction. Inventory | Transactions | Adjust Receiving CostSelect PO to adjust cost. A screen is shown for updating invoice cost of tax, freight and tariff.Fill out freight, tax and tariff cost based on invoic...

Meter category is available in the coming release of Calem R2025h (December 2025). A meter category is associated with a meter group. A meter group represents identical meters.  Calem intends to use the category for reading analysis. For instance, meter categories are used to group meter readings by healthy grades so that o...

Calem provides a connector to integrate with OPC/UA for sensors in the coming release of Calem R2025h (December 2025).  OPC/UA (Open Platform Communications – Unified Architecture) is a standardized way for industrial devices to publish data for other systems to use. Calem OPC/UA connector allows Calem to get sensor readings from equipment and...

Asset health is available in the coming release of Calem R2025h (December 2025). It is calculated daily for each asset as a dropdown of three levels: Good (low risk to fail), Moderate (moderate risk to fail), and Critical (high risk to fail). It is presented in asset list and record view (screenshots below) as green, yellow...

This blog presents the implementation of the asset failure prediction discussed in this blog. Asset failure prediction is an AI app (Artificial Intelligence) in the coming release of R2025h (December 2025). The app includes two components: Calem AI and Calem Service. Calem is the data source for training and inference. Models are tra...

Language packs are supported for on-screen help in the coming release of R2025h (December 2025). On-screen help is provided at field level (screenshot below) in English. New languages can be added with release R2025h. Here are the steps to add a language pack. Make a copy of CmHelp.properties (at Calem/client/lang).Rename it to your locale. For ins...

Editing a dropdown field may cause a dropdown list to open and close quickly in Calem Mobile. It is caused by iOS updates in iPads. There are options to address the issue. An updated release of Calem Mobile is available for release R2025h, or as a patch for now.  The update will be installed when upgrading to R2025h, or as a pat...

Inventory unit costs can be synced from ERP to Calem via APIs. For instance, every month inventory unit costs in Calem are updated by an ERP system through Calem APIs. An inventory item may be merged to another item (screenshot below) if it is a duplicate. In this case the unit cost sync will fail for a merged ite...

CapEx (capital expenditure) will be listed separately in the coming release of R2025g for PO/Budget KPI.  PO/Budget KPI is available at Dashboard | Inventory Tab - see this blog for more info.PO cost in CapEx and Non-CapEx is shown as stacked bars (screenshot below)List views shows the CapEx and On-CapEx cost separately (next sc...

Action menu has been added for permit steps in the coming release of R2025g (Sept. 2025), making it easier to complete permit steps ("Done", "N/A" and "Inspected"). For Calem Web, simply check steps performed, then, click "Done" or "Inspected" to complete in one go. For Calem Mobile, action menu placed in each step and can ...

My team part usage is available in the coming release of R2025g (Sept. 2025). The KPI shows the part/service usage in the work orders assigned to the team(s) of the login user. Menu: "My Team KPI" from "My Team WO" Tab in the WO Home page. Drill-down is available through the "List" menu into inventory transactions and work ...

A new notification event for work permits is available in the coming release of R2025g (Sept. 2025). Teams of environment, health and safety (EHS) may be configured as work permit monitors to receive emails when a work order with permits is approved or released. Menu: Organization | ACL Profiles | Monitor UserTeams or ...

Touch-Scroll is available in Calem Web Client in the coming release of R2025g (Sept. 2025), making it easier to use Calem Ajax Web Client in tablets (screenshot below). Additionally, the themes of Calem Web Client such as Dark Mode (next screenshot) is available in tablets. Here are the factors in selecting Calem Web C...

AI (artificial intelligence) brings exciting possibilities in enterprise asset management. For instance, it is possible to predict when assets will fail. Such a prediction may be based on learning from asset data in Calem including sensor readings, maintenance records, asset breakdowns, and asset attributes. Asset data in C...