5 posts tagged “Preventive Maintenance”
With the spine in place, you attach the maintenance decisions. Job plans define the task, PMs define the schedule, asset templates roll both out at fleet scale, and the dedicated Reliability Strategies application brings RCM/FMEA content natively into Maximo — with a vendor library of 800+ asset types and 58,000+ failure modes.
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 4 of 7
Before you touch a Maximo application, get the method right. This is Reliability Centered Maintenance reduced to SAE JA1011's seven questions, FMEA/FMECA with the RPN screen, and the decision logic that maps every failure mode to exactly one task type — run-to-failure, PM, condition-based, predictive, failure-finding, or redesign.
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 1 of 7
Everything in this series assembles into a phased program: Phase 0 legacy cleanse during the upgrade window, Phase 1 the reference-data spine, Phase 2 the maintenance decisions, Phase 3 the Reliability Strategies layer, Phase 4 APM, and Phase 5 closing the loop — the phase that never ends. Each phase has exit criteria so you know when you can move on.
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 7 of 7
An end-to-end, seven-part program for standing up a real reliability strategy in IBM Maximo Application Suite 9 — from RCM and FMEA fundamentals, through the Manage reliability spine, the Reliability Strategies app, and the APM layer, to dependency-correct data loads and a phased, upgrade-window rollout.
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 0 of 7
The heart of Maximo Manage — a practitioner's deep dive into the work order lifecycle, job plans with the new Qualifications field and milestone tasks, preventive maintenance and routes, plus the Work Order Planning and Work Queue Manager applications added in Manage 9.
