Departments

Departments are used to organize Maintenix users into groups, and to link users to locations. You assign users and locations to departments.

In most cases, a department represents similar users at one location. For example, a line maintenance department might consist of line maintenance technicians and supervisors at one airport. If a user is assigned to a department, that user can also see information related to the department's location. For example, a purchasing agent assigned to a supply department at the Winnipeg location sees only the open purchase requests for Winnipeg.

The following figure shows an example of the relationship between locations, departments, users, and their roles.

Figure: Relationship between locations, departments, users and roles