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Craft productivity is a key element for a successful maintenance operation. Measuring and improving Overall Craft Effectiveness (OCE) is an important component of a continuous reliability improvement process and total asset management.

Just as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) focuses on physical asset availability, performance and quality, the OCE factor focuses on labor productivity and measuring and improving the contribution of people assets.

In this webinar,  Ralph W. "Pete" Peters, Founder-President of the Maintenance Excellence Institute, will:

This is training video which provides a detailed overview of how to log into your X3 emaint system and navigate through the tabs.
Note. Only eMaint University Subscribers will be able to view the video below.

PM Projection

The PM Projection feature allows you to view the PM work orders that will be generated in the future, based on their PM Schedules. To turn this feature on, first click the wrench icon to bring up the options menu. There, you’ll see “PM Projection” as one of your choices. Click it to put a check mark next to it and display the projected PM’s on the calendar, grouped by their assets. It can be turned off in the same way.

Helpful Tips to become more productive and get the most out of eMaint X3
This session, provided by Product Specialist Alex Allen, reviews 13 tips and tricks to become more productive while using eMaint X3. These tips include internet browser settings, useful default values for data entry forms, little known functions within X3, and tricks to help get the most out of automated reports and dashboard reporting.

Using a browser that supports tabs.

In this short video presentation Steve Carbonetta reviews how to create a filter to be utilized in the new Scheduler tool as well as other areas of the application such as the workflow manager.

Modifying Assignments

The visual representation of each assignment is made up of 2 boxes, which are, by default, two different shades of red. The larger outer box is the contact box. This shows the contact’s name and the total number of hours that are scheduled. The smaller inner box is the work order box. It displays the information on the work order that’s assigned to that contact. There can be several work orders inside one contact box.

1: Create 2 assignments for the same person, on the same day. They can be different work orders.

Viewing Work Orders

Another helpful feature is the ability to view your work orders on the calendar. To use this, go up to the wrench menu again and click “WO by Date.” A menu will come up, prompting you to choose a date field by which to organize the work orders.

Below is product documentation to get you started with the eMaint X3 Scheduler. Topics that are covered include:

Scheduling Tab
- Calendar Views - day/week/month
- Modifying the calendar - what/how it displays work orders and assignments
- WO Assignments
- WO Grouped by Date
- WO by Date
- Color Settings
Assigning Work
- Contacts
- Creating and Selecting Filters
- Filtering the Calendar Detail View
- Work Orders
- Creating and Selecting Filters
- Creating New Assignments
- Updating Assignments
- Rescheduling Assignments individually

Color Settings

Another option in the wrench menu is “Color Settings.” Clicking this will bring up a window where you can select the colors you’d like the various calendar items to be. You can change the colors of assignments, WO’s by date, and WO’s grouped by date.

1: Go to the wrench menu and click on "Color Settings." A window will appear, showing 6 different color boxes. Each represents the color of a part of a calendar item. You can change the colors of the inner and outer boxes on the assignments or work orders.

Creating an Assignment

We’re going to start by creating an assignment. This is done by assigning a contact to a work order, for a certain amount of time, on a certain day. Just follow these steps:

1: First, click the box to the left of any contact that appears in the contacts panel. This will put a check mark in the box and cause the record to turn orange, indicating that this contact is selected.