Skills

Skills are different types of labor performed in the course of maintenance. When users sign off labor rows or provide analysis Maintenix validates that the user has the required skill to perform the action. Skills are often loaded and updated with integration or data loading tools, but administrators can manually create skills and assign or unassign them.

When creating requirements, engineers can add labor requirements with specific skills and can add skills to steps. Technicians, inspectors and others then sign off rows and steps for their skills. If engineering assistance is requested during execution of a task or fault, a labor row with the engineering skill is added to the task and only a person with the engineering skill can sign off on the labor row.

Skills are assigned to organizations in Maintenix. If your system includes several repair organizations that each have different areas of expertise, or that use different names to refer to the same skill, administrators create the skills required and assign them with the relevant repair organization(s). During the following workflows that involve assigning skills, the skills available are filtered by organization.

When an engineer selects labor skills to add to a task definition, the skills available are those that are assigned to the organization associated with the task definition.
When an administrator assigns skills to a user account, the skills available are those that are assigned to the user's organizations.

Skills differ from licenses. Licenses have a more rigorous qualification process.