By John Q. Todd, Sr. Business Consultant / Product Researcher at TRM. 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 their basement. Occasionally, we...
One of the key elements of an efficient maintenance operation is the degree of planning and scheduling that is performed. What this effort looks like may be different from one organization to another, and the impact of not paying attention to this important task...
When we search for, “Asset Management Software,” we could be coming from many different perspectives. Laughingly, we can ignore those folks who are looking for a better way to manage their stock or real estate portfolio. That is an entirely different world! Asset...
We all have been managing our Maximo user licenses for a very long time. Navigating that delicate balance between the licenses your company is entitled to and the actual usage of Maximo by your user communities can be challenging. Of course, leveraging the License...
Often it is far more convenient to use an RFID scanner to read tags or proxy cards than it is to manually enter data into application fields. Given that most RFID scanners are recognized by a device as a “keyboard,” it is an easy tool to adopt in most situations. It...
If you have been in the corporate workforce for more than an internet moment you have been exposed to this simple circle of life: Plan, Do, Check, Act. True, it began as just Plan, Do, Check. Then, a smart person added Act. An excellent example of adapting and...
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...
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...
Wednesday, October 11, 2021– Alexandria, VA – Total Resource Management, Inc. (TRM) to host a series of Planning Workshops to assist existing IBM Maximo clients in seamlessly transitioning from legacy enterprise asset management software installations to the new IBM...
PRESS RELEASE - Friday, March 5, 2021 – Alexandria, VA – Total Resource Management, Inc. (TRM) announces the completion of a multi-million dollar investment to bring IBM Maximo Application Suite V8 (IBM MAS 8) to its customer base and other asset intensive...
Condition-Based Monitoring (CBM) is the act of performing and making decisions about asset maintenance based upon the condition (current and possibly future) of the assets. It may also include the monitoring of the assets via technology or manual data collection...
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln IBM has released the latest update to its Maximo Enterprise Asset Management Solution, now known as the IBM Maximo Application Suite v8.0, or MAS 8.0 for...
