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About Locations

In MaintainX, a location is an entity that represents a physical place where your company operates.

  • Administrators and Full Users can create and manage locations for an organization. For more information, see Create a Location.
  • Administrators can generate reports to get insights into their organization’s locations. For details, see View and Export Location Data.

Important Location Concepts​

Here are some important concepts about locations.

Work Order Templates and Locations​

You can create work order templates for locations that need a specific work order setup.

A work order template is a reusable, preset format for a new work order. You can create templates with pre-populated values, hidden fields, and read-only information. After you create a work order template, users can create new work orders from that template rather than create them from scratch.

Sub-Locations​

A sub-location is a dependent, or child location of another location, called the parent location.

For example, your organization has a facility with several buildings on the same lot in Colorado. In MaintainX, your location’s name might be Denver Warehouse. A sub-location might be the inventory room in the Denver Warehouse location. Sub-locations are useful to structure your organization more granularly in MaintainX.

To learn more about parent locations and sub-locations, see Location Hierarchies.

Locations and Other MaintainX Entities​

This section explains how Locations connect to other MaintainX entities.

Assets​

An asset is a piece of equipment in an organization. Locations are associated with assets. A location can have more than one asset linked to it. For example, if you set up a location for a warehouse, you might associate all the forklifts in the warehouse with that location.

For more information on assets, see About Assets.

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The Asset Health feature monitors the availability of your assets, planned and unplanned downtime, etc. When you assign your assets to locations, the locations filter is a powerful way to gather insight about assets at a specific location.

For more information, see About Asset Health Reports.

Work Orders​

A work order is a document that details and records progress on a maintenance task. You can create work orders for maintenance at a location. For example, for plumbing repairs needed at a warehouse.

For more information, see Create a Work Order.

Teams​

A team is a group of users in MaintainX. You can associate one or more teams with a location. For example, the teams responsible for making sure the location is running as expected.

Meters​

A meter is a MaintainX entity that represents a real-world meter, or other device that records readings related to a location or an asset. In MaintainX, you can assign meters to locations.

For example, at your facility, there is a room that needs to stay above a specific temperature. You can set up a meter to know when the temperature of the room goes below a set value, and automatically create work orders to perform an inspection check and correct the temperature.

Vendors​

A vendor is a MaintainX entity that represents a company or person that provides assets, services or parts to an organization. You can associate a location with one or more vendors.