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IoT Condition Based Maintenance and Asset Intelligence through Simplified Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)

Mar 12, 2020 | TRM Blog

Scott Stukel, CMRP, Director of Asset Management and Reliability at Total Resource Management Originally a paper I submitted and presented at an asset management industry group conference in 2018 but the content is relevant for anyone who would like a simplified entry...

How to Self-Assess Your Asset Management Progress and Develop an Effective Roadmap

Mar 4, 2020 | TRM Blog

Scott Stukel, CMRP, Director of Asset Management and Reliability at Total Resource Management I work with many organizations with great maintenance programs who feel they are ready to expand into the “World Class” Asset Management realm but struggle...

IoT and Condition Monitoring for Asset Management, Maintenance & Reliability

Feb 24, 2020 | TRM Blog

Scott Stukel, CMRP, Director of Asset Management and Reliability at Total Resource Management In the world of asset management and reliability we are constantly bombarded with advances in technology that claim to give us future-now asset intelligence capabilities to...

Back to Basics – It’s Time to Seriously Consider SaaS

Jul 18, 2019 | News, TRM Blog

John Q. Todd Sr. Business Consultant, PMP – Ah the good old days when you could write a few lines of code, amaze your friends, and maybe crash a few PCs on the showroom floor at our local Sears or Radio Shack. You were having fun and living stress free. Fast...

Asset/Location Hierarchies:

Jul 12, 2019 | News, TRM Blog

Why do you need them, what are they used for, how should they be set up? Scott Stukel, CMRP, Asset Management and Reliability Lead – When most companies implement an EAM tool, like Maximo, they struggle with the fundamental development of their asset...

TRM and IBM Partnership Nets FedRAMP Authorization for IBM Maximo & TRIRIGA

May 14, 2019 | News, TRM Blog

IBM has officially achieved FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) authorization for IBM Maximo & TRIRIGA. This achievement brings the first and only FedRAMP certified Maximo Cloud solution to Federal Agencies and commercial entities...

Back to Basics – Getting more out of Enterprise Asset Management Software

Jan 8, 2019 | Press, TRM Blog

John Q. Todd Sr. Business Consultant, PMP – We’ve all done it. Bought something we thought we needed with all the cool bells and whistles. A year later it ends up in the donation pile. The device served its basic purpose well but we simply did not use or...

IBM SaaS is Coming to Federal Agencies: Get Ready for Maximo

Jun 29, 2018 | TRM Blog

By Jim Miwa Back in 2012, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instituted a Cloud First policy. This policy was intended to accelerate the pace at which the government would realize the value of cloud computing by requiring Agencies to evaluate safe, secure cloud...

Back to Basics – Work Centers and User Adoption

Apr 12, 2018 | News, Press, TRM Blog

John Q. Todd Sr. Business Consultant, PMP I hope you have spent some time looking at how Work Centers may improve user adoption. Although they have been a staple of Maximo for some time, major enhancements have been rolled out with version 7.6.0.9 that have made the...

Back to Basics – Asset Risk

Feb 12, 2018 | News, TRM Blog

John Q. Todd Sr. Business Consultant, PMP Having been to a particular client site many times, I never thought much about this one alarm that would go off several times each day. The crew would roll their eyes, sigh, don their PPE, and then scurry out of the room to...

Back to Basics – Maximo In Support of User Business Processes

Dec 29, 2017 | News, TRM Blog

John Q. Todd Sr. Business Consultant, PMP In the world of standards-based Quality Management Systems and documented business processes, the common mantra is: Say what you do Do what you say Prove it Improve it The alignment of Maximo with documented business processes...

Back to Basics – Maximo Queries and Maximo Ad-Hoc Reporting

Oct 2, 2017 | News, TRM Blog

John Q. Todd Sr. Business Consultant, PMP One of the areas of constant puzzlement by Maximo users is how to, “find my data.” Quite a few people struggle in this area and end up with the belief that their data has been, “lost.” I have received...