John Q. Todd
Sr Business Consultant/Product Researcher
Total Resource Management, Inc.
This article discusses several elements to consider when making attempts to improve your first-time fix rate.
Preventive Maintenance
Assessing the Use of Maintenance Best Practices
John Q. Todd
Sr Business Consultant/Product Researcher
Total Resource Management, Inc.
Suggested best practices are real things with real value, from there you get to decide which makes sense to investigate. Let us help you make sense of things.
Early Warnings. From Where and So What?
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
Preventive Maintenance Optimization
Christer Idhammar
Founder of IDCON, Inc. Reliability and Maintenance Guru
IDCON is an Independent Subsidiary of TRM, Inc.
A cost-effective approach to preventive maintenance shows that there is no maintenance cost optimum, maintenance costs will decrease as costs for production losses decrease.
Reliability & Maintenance, Maximo, & TRM Products
John Q. Todd
Sr Business Consultant/Product Researcher
Total Resource Management, Inc.
Uptime Elements has facilitated reliability and maintenance disciplines for ages, the challenge comes when adopting and deploying them for use in Maximo.
Reliability Centered Maintenance and is it Right for You?
John Sewell
Reliability and Maintenance Consultant of IDCON, Inc.
an Independent Subsidiary of TRM, Inc.
John outlines 7 steps to apply Reliability Centered Maintenance in your organization.
Using Noria LIS Tags for Lubrication Item Classification in Maximo and Manage
We are always looking for opportunities to leverage an industry standard or best practice to implement it into a Maximo or Manage instance to support an organization with its improvement goals. Adopting standards that are related to your industry goes a long way...
Preventive Maintenance to Maintain, Keep and Preserve Equipment
Terry Taylor
Reliability & Maintenance Consultant – IDCON, Inc.
an Independent Subsidiary of TRM, Inc.
Good maintenance begins with a proactive approach to maintain, keep, preserve and protect the equipment.
Who Does this Maintenance Task?
Michael Lippig
Sr Consultant – IDCON, Inc.
an Independent Subsidiary of TRM, Inc.
In this video, Michael Lippig gives you a simple decision model and examples that can help you answer the question: “Who does this maintenance task?”
What is Maximo EAM and How Does It Work?
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...
Better Maintenance Decisions with Reliability Tools – FMECA
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...
Reliability in Maintenance Series: Understanding Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD)
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...