Apr 7, 2022 | News, TRM Blog
As you well know, Inspection Forms are a function in MAS Manage and legacy Maximo too! They are proving themselves to be quite versatile and well-accepted for those clients who need to capture information about equipment and then act based upon the results. Inspection...
Mar 30, 2022 | News, TRM Blog
Why do you need them, what are they used for, how should they be set up? Is there a problem with my Location hierarchy? When companies implement an EAM tool, like Maximo or Manage, they often struggle with the initial development of their location and asset...
Mar 21, 2022 | News, TRM Blog
Given that your Users have installed the MAS Mobile application to a smart device, and you have granted them access to the available applications, they are now able to enjoy the use of the applications while connected or disconnected to a network. When first launched...
Mar 16, 2022 | News, TRM Blog
When Maximo Application Suite (MAS) is implemented, all the “role-based” applications are installed and available with no further configuration needed. Unlike previous versions of Maximo Mobile applications, there are no separate servers or configurations...
Feb 28, 2022 | News, TRM Blog
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...
Feb 24, 2022 | News, TRM Blog
Now that Maximo Application Suite (MAS) has been out for well over a year, how are things looking on the Mobile apps side? Let’s get right to it and walk through where we are. What are we talking about? This article is going to cover the set of Mobile apps for...
Feb 15, 2022 | News, TRM Blog
Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) has been a secret weapon in the arsenal of the Reliability Engineer for many years. While it began in the early days as just Failure Modes and Effects (FMEA), the addition of the Criticality (aka, “Who...
Feb 8, 2022 | News, TRM Blog
In this article, we are going to talk about the elements needed to calculate OEE, then how you can capture and present them in Maximo (or the new MAS Manage). What are the elements of OEE? There are classically three elements of OEE: Availability Productivity...
Jan 13, 2022 | News, TRM Blog
Bring Time-tested Reliability Tools to Bear on Maintenance Problems Reliability Block Diagrams have been around for a very long time, helping system engineers understand how the various elements, and their relationships, could impact the overall reliability and...
Dec 29, 2021 | News, TRM Blog
MAS Health comes with the infrastructure for us to establish health measures for assets and locations defined in MAS Manage. Much the same way we keep ourselves healthy, we can set up “vitals,” for our groups of assets or locations that can be updated...
Dec 22, 2021 | News, Press, TRM Blog
December 20, 2021 – Total Resource Management, Inc. (TRM) announced that its cloud SaaS operation and infrastructure services (cloud hosting, security/network operations, application security, and customer services) are now certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2013 by...
Dec 2, 2021 | News, TRM Blog
You might be thinking, “No! Not a new acronym to learn!” You would be right… FRACAS is not a new idea by any stretch. It is a proven approach with a long history of assisting organizations in managing equipment failures and the actions to take as a...
