Cohesive Solutions' Blog

Jeff O’Donnell recently joined the Cohesive Solutions team and is ready to tackle some large Oil & Gas demands currently happening in the U.S. and Canada.

Topics: employee spotlight, oil and gas

Most utilities with T&D distributed assets want to be able to fully understand the condition of their system and move from being reactive to being proactive in addressing identified deficiencies. These utilities with thousands of miles of line and millions of individual assets require considerable [...]

Topics: Asset Lifecycle, Asset Lifecycle Management, IBM Maximo

At times I struggle with the data behind various power-stats but this one from Workfront, Inc. stood out, and I believe to be true...  

Topics: Performance Management, Performance Management for Maximo

Co-Ops at Cohesive Solutions are an integral part of our company culture. In 2015 Cohesive developed a co-op program where we partnered with 2 local universities: Kennesaw State and Georgia Tech, to engage with their career centers. As part of our regular blog we will be sharing a co-op story. This [...]

Topics: Careers

On October 4, 2017 I attended the IBM hosted event in Boston called “Genius of Things”.

Topics: Innovation, Technology

Recently I did a webcast on the new FREE Maximo Budget Monitoring application that IBM released with Maximo V7.6.0.8. This webcast was recorded and can be found HERE.  

Topics: Maximo Budget Monitoring

We’ve all heard about “company culture”.  I’ll summarize here. It is the collective beliefs, values and principles of an organization’s employees. Every company has a culture no matter the size or number of employees.

Topics: business process, Performance Management

Next week I will be attending the ESRI GeoConX 2017 conference in Chicago and am looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones while there. Of interest, on my agenda is the Birds of a Feather Session for Electric Distribution.

Topics: GIS, ESRI, Electric Distribution

You may agree that your car plays a pretty important role in your life. We often take our vehicles for granted and assume they will work for us as we carry out our day-to-day activities.

Topics: Reliability Centered Maintenance, RCM, risk mitigation

Think back to your last project or initiative? How did it go? Did you respond well? How do you know it was a success? Perhaps you’ve heard rumors that everyone is using the system and that one manager that was vocal seems quiet now and, dare you say, happy. Or, perhaps your training surveys showed [...]

Topics: KPI, KPIs, IBM Maximo, Performance Management

Imagine you’re a dedicated breeder of fine thoroughbred race horses.  You love horses.  Your whole life revolves around horses. You love everything about horses but you have a special affinity for fine animals at their peak physical strength and beauty.

Topics: Maximo, Maximo Training, Maximo data, Maximo Fundamentals, maximize ibm maximo performance

Recently, Cohesive Solutions completed a very successful Maximo for Utilities (T&D) implementation for a major power company in the Midwest. Over the course of two plus years we went through an exhaustive list of activities to bring this project to fruition. These steps included; integrating Maximo [...]

Topics: Maximo Fundamentals, Maximo, Prerequisites, Maximo Training

  Change Management is a structured approach to ensuring that changes are thoroughly and smoothly implemented, and that the lasting benefits of change are achieved; focus is on the wider impacts of change, particularly on people and how they, as individuals and teams, move from the current [...]

Topics: Change Management, Maximo Implementation, Maximo go live

 

Topics: Maximo Tips, Master Contracts, Maximo Fundamentals

Co-Ops at Cohesive Solutions are an integral part of our company culture. In 2015 Cohesive developed a co-op program where we partnered with 2 local universities: Kennesaw State and Georgia Tech, to engage with their career centers. As part of our regular blog we will be sharing a co-op story. This [...]

Topics: Career Opportunities, Propel Performance Management, Internships

  A Maximo upgrade project is often time-consuming and expensive. One critical lynch pin in the entire process is simple imitation.   There are several reasons that clients decide to upgrade to a current version of Maximo. The most common reason is related to version support from IBM. Other clients [...]

Topics: Maximo Upgrade

 

Topics: Data Confidence, Data Quality, Trustworthy Information, Trustworthy Data

 A primary goal of MRO Supply Chain managers is to balance financial performance with risk mitigation.  In order to achieve goals, however, quantifiable targets must be established and performance toward those goals must be measured.  The difficulty is identifying ‘how to measure’ these balanced [...]

Topics: supply chain management, risk mitigation, Enterprise Asset Management, financial performance

    Getting it right the first time is hard. This past Sunday night of the Oscars turned into one very explosive moment. I write this from a place of empathy as I read through the last 48 hours of Oscar flub social media posts burning a hole in my mind about the importance of procedures and [...]

Topics: Procedures, Business Solutions, business process, EAM business intelligence

Consider the following simple scenario which helps explain the difference between data, information, and knowledge.

Topics: Knowledge Management

 

Topics: data, information, data v. information, insights

 

Topics: Data Quality, Data Confidence

  

Topics: Business Partnerships

When the floods come and the storms rage...thank goodness for the folks that hold the line.

Topics: Emergency Response, Disaster Relief, Utilities

Topics: KPI, Metric, Operational Excellence