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AMOS User TrainingPaul Taylor is now running regular user training courses, either in Manchester or onsite, using your software & data to suit your individual needs. Paul began employment with SpecTec Ltd, where he provided technical support & advanced training for their suite of maritime software products.


Agenda – AMOS 5 day Training course

Day 1: AMOS General

  • Introduction / overview of AMOS
  • Discuss AMOS  is component-orientated
  • Discuss relationships and functionality for Functions, CompType, & Components
  • Navigation around AMOS, use of Filters & hierarchies
  • Creation of Data within various registers
  • Searching for specific information and using the filters
  • Creation of data and associated links
  • Exercises and Questions

Day 2: AMOS Maintenance Functionality

  • Revision from day 1
  • Introduction to how AMOS supports several maintenance types
  • Configuration of Periodic Maintenance
       - Creating a new JobDescription. 
       - Assigning to a CompType
       - Configuring for PM WO generation (Lead times, Resource planning & Spare part forecasting)
       - Reporting work carried out, utilizing history, resource usage and spares used.
  • Use of Corrective Maintenance (Requisition).
  • How to report break-down (Unplanned) Maintenance
  • Reporting a PM task early due to a fault/breakdown
  • Reporting corrective / emergency maintenance carried out.
  • Exercises and Questions
           - Planning your work
           - Filtering for work to be done
           - Reporting PM work as completed
           - Reporting Defects
           - Setting up a new PM activity and configuring for WO generation

Day 3: AMOS Maintenance & Introduction to Purchasing

  • Revision from day 2
  • Maintenance review – office perspective
  • Reviewing what work has been done
  • Reviewing outstanding work
  • Reviewing reported defects
  • Reviewing ‘Unplanned work’
  • Running Hours and how this affects the maintenance planning
          - Handling broken Counters
  • Historical information of maintenance
          - Searching Histories
  • Rounds – what they are and how they can be used
          - Set up a round
          - Reporting a round as complete (identify difference between Simple/Detailed)
  • Introduction to how AMOS Purchasing
          - How AMOS supports stock control and requisitioning
          - Onboard stock inventory and how this can automatically initiate Purchase Requisitions through “maintenance/stock usage”
          - Overview of the Requisitioning & Purchase process
  • Describe the roles for onboard and office environments.
  • Exercises and Questions
          - Find work carried out during previous period
          - Identify types of work carried out
          - Identify overdue work orders
          - Create a round, generate the work order and report as complete
          - Replace a broken counter

Day 4: Requisitioning & Purchasing

  • Revision from day 3
  • Budgets – overview
          - Set-up a budget
          - Assigning budgets to various items
  • Purchasing in AMOS Purchase (Detailed Process Flow)
          - Officers ‘Wish’ list
          - Creation of Requisitions
          - Modifying requisitions
          - Approval of Requisitions
          - Creation of RFQ’s (Queries and Quotations)
          - Selection of vendor
          - Applying the budget
          - Updating the prices
          - Creation of Purchase Order
          - Receive the goods on-board
  • Purchasing a Service
  • Contract Purchasing – Discuss what this is
  • How to follow the progress of the purchasing cycle
  • Seeing what has been spent/committed to the budget
  • Deliveries & transport documents – Overview
  • Exercises and Questions
           - Creation of a ‘Wish List’
           - Approve the ‘Wish List’
           - Create the Requisition, through to receive on-board
           - Check the budgets to see what has been allocated
           - Create a delivery receipt
           - Create a transport document

Day 5: Stock Control & Administration Functions

  • Revision from day 4
  • Stock Control – overview
          - Automatic generation of Purchase Requisitions
          - Automatic assignment of stock to Work Orders
          - Evaluate ‘Lead Times’ and how this can assist in the Procurement cycle
  • Stock Transfer (Detailed section in the advanced course)
          - Discuss stock transfer and how it may assist UMD
          - Identify the process
  • Exercises and Questions
          - Print out inventory list for Stock check
          - Set Min, Max & re-order levels for stock items
          - Link these stock items into PM’s and ensure AMOS re-orders as required
  • Administration Duties
          - Users and Access Control – Overview
          - Parameters – brief overview
          - Export/Import of AMOS data to/from Head Office.
          - Overview of Selection files and how it works
          - Carry out Export/Import
          - Evaluate Export files created
          - Discuss possible issues and how these can ‘best’ be avoided

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