Another common requirement in manufacturing operations is the handling of maintenance requests. A maintenance request can involve a machine that is malfunctioning, or even a work environment that needs attention to become more productive. The Odoo Maintenance application integrates the handling of maintenance requests directly into the manufacturing process. Click the Maintenance icon on the main Enterprise menu to bring up the Maintenance dashboard as follows:

You will then be taken to the Maintenance dashboard:

You will see that the Odoo Maintenance application divides maintenance requests by teams. In the previous example, we have three teams configured to handle the requests. Under the Internal Maintenance team, we can click the button that says 3 TO DO and pull up the requests, as follows:

Here, we can see that one of the requests is New and the other two requests are In Progress. Click on the Battery drains fast maintenance request to view the details:

As you can see, there are a lot of details within this request that help us identify exactly what needs to be done to address the problem. In our example, we know who the request was Created By, what Equipment was involved, and the Request Date, among other important items.

In addition, Odoo will automatically fill in the Manufacturing Order or the Work Order if a maintenance request is made during one of those processes. When you are ready, you can set a scheduled date for the repair, as well as a priority level to help you manage what items your maintenance team should be focused on.

You can also quickly look at your equipment to see which items have outstanding maintenance requests. Click on the Equipments menu to see your equipment in the Kanban view, as shown in the following screenshot:

Using this view, you can quickly see what equipment needs the attention of your maintenance team.