Industrial maintenance is a comprehensive process crucial to the reliable operation of various industrial plants, mines, and mills. It extends beyond simple repairs, involving a systematic approach to condition monitoring, fixed time maintenance, and corrective maintenance approaches for industrial equipment.
Materials Management Articles
Using P&ID Diagrams to Establish Location and Asset Hierarchies
Feb 16, 2023 | Materials Management Articles, Resource Library, TRM Blog
Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) are foundational documents that give engineering, operations, and maintenance staff insight into the elements, interconnections, and relationships a system may have. As with any architectural type of diagram, they have a language of their own that a person needs to have at least a basic understanding of to get the most out of them.
Innovation, Through Standards, Leads to Ubiquity. A Good Thing!
Jan 26, 2023 | Materials Management Articles, TRM Blog
John Q. ToddSr. Business Consultant/Product Researcher Total Resource Management (TRM), Inc. Everyone loves innovation. So many cool things are on the market for us to buy and benefit from due to the innovative thinking of some engineer grinding away in...
Establishing Your Organizations, Sites, and Sets
Jan 5, 2023 | Materials Management Articles, Resource Library, TRM Blog
John Q. Todd
Sr Business Consultant/Product Researcher
Total Resource Management, Inc.
Understanding early warning signals and tools with built-in analysis logic in the Digital Transformation process
Leveraging Maximo for Inventory Management
Jun 1, 2022 | Materials Management Articles, Maximo Configuration, TRM Blog
Do we really have to talk about this? Maximo has had Inventory Management functionality for many, many years. Not only is the function present, but it interconnects to many of the other Maximo modules such as Purchasing and Work Management. Ok. We can talk. ...
What is Maximo EAM and How Does It Work?
Feb 28, 2022 | Leadership in Maintenance Articles, Materials Management Articles, Maximo Cloud and Security, Maximo Configuration, Preventive Maintenance, Technical / Equipment, TRM Blog, Work Management / Planning and Scheduling
The intention of this article is to introduce you to what Maximo (and Manage) are all about. We are assuming that you know nothing about all the pieces that make Maximo do its thing. Maximo is the legacy name for what has become the Manage component of the new IBM...
Preventive Maintenance for Spare Parts
Jul 13, 2021 | Materials Management Articles, Preventive Maintenance, TRM Blog
Tor Idhammar
President & CEO, IDCON, Inc. Reliability and Maintenance Consultant
IDCON is an Independent Subsidiary of TRM, Inc.
Let IDCON President and CEO Tor Idhammar walk you through why it is important to have good PMs for Spare Parts.
Where are the parts that I need?
Nov 23, 2020 | Materials Management Articles, TRM Blog
Owe Forsberg
CMRP, CAMA, VP of IDCON, Inc.
an Independent Subsidiary of TRM, Inc.
Owe Forsberg outlines several things to look out for that will impact the parts you need when you need them.