A T Week schedule typically rolls from week to week and never completes. That in combination with the fact that most customers use an interim status such as Field Complete as a synonym of In Progress to drop activities off of the schedule means the normal schedule compliance tools inside of [...]
T Week Schedule Compliance with Maximo Scheduler
Topics: Process Compliance, Maximo Scheduler, planning and scheduling
Five Problems Asset Intensive Organizations face Solved With Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
What is GIS? GIS (Geographic Information System) is an evolving application that enables users to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial/geographic data.
Topics: GIS
Remember that scene in the movie “A Few Good Men” when Jack Nicholson was being questioned by a young lawyer played by Tom Cruise. Cruise kept pressing and Nicholson hits his breaking point and yells out “You can’t handle the Truth”.
Topics: Data Quality, Data Confidence, Trustworthy Data
EAM Reporting v. Performance Management Dashboards: What's the difference?
I was recently asked what the difference was between BIRT reports in Maximo and Performance Management Dashboards. My answer essentially applies to any other Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) reporting tool.
Topics: KPI, performance management for asset management, Reports, Dashboards
A Beginners Guide to Effective KPIs for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
In this series of blogs, we will be discussing performance management, metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) related to different aspects of work execution, reliability and overall asset management. Today’s topic is: Planning and Scheduling.
Topics: enterprise resource planning, planning and scheduling
Maximo Scheduler Setup - Defining Scope of Work and Resource Availability
Determining Resource Load When scheduling work, it is important for organizations to have visibility into the right group of work orders to schedule and to understand the resource load versus availability for those work orders.
Topics: Maximo Scheduler
5 Steps to Begin your data driven performance management journey TODAY
Have you had the feeling that your organization isn’t “ready” to embark on a performance management journey? – a journey where your intent is to ensure that activities are meeting your organization's goals and objectives in an effective and efficient manner.
T-Week Scheduling with Maximo Scheduler
Maximo Scheduler helps organizations better manage planned, unplanned, and emergency work by enabling them to visually plan, schedule, and assign work inside of their Maximo system. For routine maintenance during normal operations, many organizations use the concept of a T-Week schedule. This is a [...]
Topics: Maximo Scheduler
Criticality Analysis: What is a criticality analysis? How and why you should conduct one.
Determining your critical assets and the impact their failure has on production is imperative to running an efficient maintenance operation. A Criticality Analysis helps break down your organization's systems and processes to identify critical assets and their impact on failure, with the end goal [...]
Topics: Condition Monitoring, MAHI, Maintenance Strategy
Maximo Tip: Accessibility Keyboard Features in IBM Maximo
Did you know about Maximo's keyboard shortcuts? This is one of their multiple accessibility features which enable all users to use the program successfully, despite things such as restricted mobility or limited vision.
Topics: Keyboard Accessibility
I started putting my thoughts together for this blog and began to consider how the traditional uses and physical concept of a bookmark might have fallen by the wayside. The electronic nature of reading material has pushed a bookmark out of mind as a helpful tool. Then again, I’m probably the [...]
Employee Spotlight: Stephen Miller - Helping Clients Move Up the Maintenance Maturity Curve
Because of the MaximoWorld conference at the top of the month, this was a very exciting month for Cohesive Solutions, and one team member, Stephen Miller. For the first time at the conference, MaximoWorld leaders recognized extraordinary achievements and team accomplishments in the Maximo community [...]
ReliabilityWeb Awards Cohesive Solutions at MaximoWorld 2019
August 22, 2019 – Kennesaw, GA Cohesive Solutions is proud to be the Best New Implementation award recipient of ReliabilityWeb's 2019 award program. This award was presented at the MaximoWorld conference in Orlando, FL earlier this month. The MaximoWorld Awards recognize extraordinary achievements [...]
Topics: Maximo Implementation, EAM Implementation
Short Cycling Your EAM Systems Implementation Only leads to a V8 Moment.
Don't have a V-8 Moment Expecting big dollar savings by short cycling your major systems deployments. As great as it sounds, trying to reduce costs in this manner creates risk before your project is out of the starting gate. You'll be headed for a "V8 Moment".
Topics: EAM Implementation, Short Cycling
How This Objective Wheel Guides Your Reliability Journey
Reliability is a journey – not a destination. If you’ve been in the industry for some time, you’ve probably heard that one before. Because, it’s true! This journey will have many pit stops, detours, and construction zones, and like any trip that you take in any facet of life – it’s best to have a [...]
Topics: Propel Performance Management
Employee Spotlight: Jim Sawyer discusses supply chain challenges
This month’s employee spotlight shines on Jim Sawyer. He is a Senior Consultant and Business Analyst at Cohesive Solutions. He is an IBM Maximo Certified Asset Management Functional Analyst and Deployment Professional. Jim has over 19 years EAM Implementation and Project Management experience and [...]
Topics: supply chain management, supply chain, Maximo for Supply Chain
What's New in Maximo 7.6.1.1? Updates to help you manage cost, time, and effectiveness.
Over the past 12 months, IBM released two different updates to their Maximo Enterprise Asset Management Software, a comprehensive asset life cycle and maintenance management platform that optimizes your assets and business in 6 closely integrated modules of asset, work, service, contract, [...]
My journey towards Maximo BIRT Reporting started in the banking industry with Actuate eRDPro development tool. The evolution of this tool to Eclipse BIRT took place over the past fifteen years. And maybe that is one of the reasons I am so biased towards BIRT and its integration into Maximo.
Partner Spotlight: Projetech - Bringing Maximo to the Cloud Has Never Been Easier
Cloud platforms are enabling new, complex business models and orchestrating more globally based integration networks than many analyst and advisory firms predicted. Cloud options give organizations the high-level functionality of enterprise software, without the maintenance of hosting it [...]
Topics: SaaS, Maximo Cloud
Every year I attend a number of industry-based conferences. For the semi-annual conferences, my typical MO is to attend the keynote and plenary session presentations, then retreat to a common area to address the mountain of email that had accumulated over the prior two hours. The typical format [...]
Employee Spotlight: Dianne DePuy Looks at Nuclear Energy's Current state
This month our Employee Spotlight is Dianne DePuy. She joined Cohesive Solutions in January of 2018. Dianne has been providing work and asset management services and software to many of the world’s largest utility companies for more than 20 years. As a strong client advocate Dianne has collaborated [...]
Topics: Maximo for Nuclear
IoT is not rocket-science but there are similarities and lessons that can be applied. Success exists in the small wins or the truths that we learn on a journey. The ‘success journey’ has been on my mind a lot lately. Last month I visited Houston for the GOMaximo event. Houston has a special [...]
Topics: IoT
Partner Spotlight: Smart Partnerships Make Great Maximo Implementations
SRO Solutions is a global value-added Maximo solution partner to Cohesive Solutions. Cohesive leverages SRO's Data Utility (SDU) toolkit to provide Maximo upgrades with zero downtime. This unique partnership generates extensive Maximo consultancy knowledge for joint implementations. Working [...]
Topics: Business Partnerships, IBM Maximo
The Cohesive team is heading to IBM’s IoT Exchange in Orlando, FL next week. The IoT Exchange is a new conference hosted by IBM, that focuses on IBM Maximo and IBM’s Internet of Things solutions. This is the first year that IBM is hosting the conference, and we are eager to see what is in store!
Topics: maximo events
Spring is here, and that means – Spring cleaning! Here are five simple things you can to do clean up your Maximo system and ensure it is running at optimal performance. 1. Maximo Licenses
Topics: Maximo Implementation, Performance Management for Maximo, continuous improvement
Insurance for Success: Your Post Implementation Maximo Support Options
Recent U.S. based surveys have shared that manufacturing companies are committing $907 billion per year toward greater connectivity and smarter factories. Enterprise asset management systems, security solutions, automation tools and all the processes that go along with those billions will be [...]
Topics: maximo support
Employee Spotlight: Stuart Barnes Outlines The Essentials Of Operational Performance Management
Achieving operational goals is often hampered when there is a gap between operational strategy and day-to-day procedures. We see pressures rising for management to reduce costs and improve reliability. These demands put a challenge on the leaders who strive to keep their organization ahead of the [...]
Topics: Data Quality, performance management for asset management
Drive Reliability Centered Maintenance Performance with IBM Maximo
According to a study by Aberdeen, we've seen a 59% increase in the cost of downtime over the past three years across all industries. Aside from the capital cost and penalties associated with unplanned downtime, decreased customer trust, lack of productivity, and disruption in the supply chain are [...]
Employee Spotlight - Karen Kanuch Shares the Keys to a Successful EAM Implementation
Topics: Maximo Implementation
The Truth About Homegrown Solutions in the Utility Industry
As a utility, you will have moments when you realize it is time to give up the homegrown solution. Leaders of utilities often believe their business requirements are so different from those of other companies that they cannot be met by using a commercial off the shelf (COTS) solution. This thought [...]
Topics: Utilities