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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...

Back to Basics – Maximo User Adoption

Sep 7, 2017 | News, TRM Blog

John Q. Todd Sr. Business Consultant, PMP Fuel, air, spark – no matter how sophisticated the engine is, its functionality requires these basic elements. If any of these is not managed the engine does not run well, if at all. (Ok, some would add...

Advanced Asset Management Article 3 – From the Lessons Learned Files: EAM/Maximo System Implementation

Jun 26, 2017 | TRM Blog

From the Lessons Learned Files: EAM/Maximo System Implementation Scott Stukel, CMRP Asset Management, Reliability, Maximo, Strategy, ISO 55000, EAM/CMMS, Executive Coaching Having led and participated in countless EAM implementations in my career, both on the...

Advanced Asset Management Article 1 – How to get meaningful information from your asset management system

Jun 9, 2017 | TRM Blog

How to get meaningful information from your asset management system Scott Stukel, CMRP Asset Management, Reliability, Maximo, Strategy, ISO 55000, EAM/CMMS, Executive Coaching How many of you out there have uprooted your organization and implemented an...

The embedded Maximo training tool – MaxAssist has New Functionality: Dynamic Page Guides

Aug 9, 2016 | TRM Blog

by: Jordan Ortiz, TRM Software Engineer If you’re a current RulesManager customer or MaxAssist customer, you know that MaxAssist is one of our software tools for Maximo that actually embeds the training right on users’ screens. We’re...

Why you should attend my: Industry Best Practices Seminar Focused On Getting The Most Out of IBM Maximo Asset Management – Catching Excellence

Jul 6, 2016 | News, TRM Blog

Author: John Reeve, TRM Sr. Maximo Business Consultant August 2-3, 2016, San Diego, CA The intent of this training is to encourage the Maximo community to look beyond the software. I too started out on the software side. I was enamored by the software –...

On-Premise Maximo to SaaS Migration – The Business Case – IBM Bridge to Cloud

Jun 29, 2016 | News, TRM Blog

By Don Omura, TRM Chief Operations Officer Chances are, most the readers of this article are quite versed in the benefits of SaaS. These include: Lower TCO Faster time-to-value Scalability Less strain on IT resources Opex (SaaS) vs Capex (on-premise)...