Rob MacArthur, President of GenesisSolutions

Happy New Year. I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday season with friends and family.

2011 marked our 12th year for GenesisSolutions. Despite a variety of economic headwinds facing the global economy, we finished a near record year in terms of growth and volume. We thank you, our customers and partners, for making this happen.

Throughout the year we continued to grow in all practice areas and all geographies. It would seem true that Enterprise Asset Management is a fundamental necessity for our industrial customers in both up, down and sideway markets.

Looking forward into 2012 we continue to see strong growth as the fusion of EAM technologies and advanced reliability-based maintenance programs continues to expand. We will of course continue to grow to meet our customers growing needs related to EAM. We have also entered into key strategic relationships with a number of leading industrial service and technology firms which allows us to expand our reach as well as provide more expansive and robust EAM solutions to our customers. More to come on all of these in future newsletters but we anticipate a very exciting 2012 ahead.

As always, thank you for all your support and business throughout 2011. From all of us here at GenesisSolutions we wish a very happy, prosperous and safe 2012 to you and your families.

Best Regards,

Rob MacArthur, President

Asset Management Master Planning

The Evolution of Maintenance Master Planning

Mike Greenholtz & Quinton GoForth

Early last year an article was posted entitled “Maintenance Master Planning” where Mike Greenholtz described the implementation approach and benefits of an Asset Management program. Much of the article described Mike’s global implementation experiences, which began nearly a decade ago at a world class Pharmaceutical company. We have had the opportunity over the past several years to introduce Maintenance Master Planning to many of our GenesisSolutions customers. As part of a continuous improvement effort, we have modified the master planning process to include a DMAIC approach, which is a 6 Sigma quality management tool, thus evolving Maintenance Master Planning to a more comprehensive Asset Management Master Planning process.

In a sequential series of articles to be published in this newsletter, we will describe the updated process in detail to provide you with a greater understanding of how this method can bring value to your company. Over the course of this five part series, we will convey how we “Define” asset management maturity, “Measure” and assess the current state of asset management, “Analyze” the assessment to develop a master plan, “Improve” asset management through master plan implementation, and finally “Control” and sustain the performance improvement.

Click Here to View the Full Article

Click Here to View Original Maintenance Master Planning Article

EAM & Reliability Strategy Seminars

January 18, 2012 - Mobile, Alabama

February 23, 2012 - Atlanta, Georgia

You are invited to join us as our 2012 EAM & Reliability Seminar series continues. GenesisSolutions, in conjunction with The Mundy Companies, is committed to providing an educational forum to promote a greater understanding of a progressive, multiphase Maintenance Master Plan and how to leverage your CMMS investment to support your Reliability Strategy. The links below will take you to a full description of each one-day EAM and Reliability Strategy Seminar which has a focus on “Defining your Asset Management Master Plan.”

Click here for Logistics, Seminar Agenda and Speaker Bio’s for Mobile, Alabama

Click here for Logistics, Seminar Agenda and Speaker Bio’s for Atlanta, Georgia

To register immediately, please send a request to: info@genesissolutions.com

Upcoming Seminar Dates Include:

• Corpus Christi, Texas - March 20th, 2012
• San Diego, California - April 19th, 2012

Upcoming Industry Events

• Mountain West Maximo User Group (MWMUG)
• Winter Meeting 2012
• January 19, 2012
• Lehi, Utah

GenesisSolutions is a sponsor & presenter and will be attending this annual meeting featuring IBM Maximo Asset Management technical and functional presentations and training opportunities. Joe Schmidt, Strategic Account Executive at Genesis, will be presenting a customer project overview on a Power Utility executing Asset Reliability Improvements utilizing Maximo as its CMMS.

For more information please visit: http://mwmug.org/

• Pacific Northwest Maximo User Group (PANMU)
• Winter Meeting 2012
• January 20, 2012
• Seattle, Washington (Hosted by IBM)

The Pacific Northwest Maximo Users Group (PANMU) is a regional group of professionals who support and/or use IBM Maximo Asset Management in the workplace as well as business partners who provide support related to Maximo. The membership spans multiple states and provinces in USA and Canada as well as the various industries in which Maximo is used. All are welcome to participate, regardless of experience, area of involvement or ability to participate in quarterly meetings.

GenesisSolutions will be attending this meeting which features presentations by IBM & Seattle Public Utilities and will be participating on a Planning / Scheduling & Asset Management roundtable discussion with Solufy (www.Solufy.com).

For more information, please visit the PANMU website: http://www.panmu.org

• IBM Pulse 2012
• March 4-7, 2012
• Las Vegas, Nevada

GenesisSolutions is a Gold Sponsor and will be presenting and exhibiting at this major IBM Maximo Asset Management event. Please monitor our website and follow our newsletter for updates as we draw closer to this event.

Our IBM Pulse 2012 presentations include:

1. A Co-Presentation with a Global Pharmaceutical Healthcare Provider
2. A Co-Presentation with a Major North American Power Utility
3. A Solution Expo Presentation on our EAM Maturity Continuum

For more information please visit: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/

Principal Consultant

David Pitman is a Principal Consultant who came to GenesisSolutions in 2000 from Datastream Systems. While at Datastream David served as a Senior Implementation Technician who installed MP2 at approximately 100 customer sites in the US, Canada and Mexico.

David has served GenesisSolutions as both a Functional Lead and Project Manager on a number of projects during his tenure in a wide range of verticals, including Energy (Nuclear, Fossil Fuel, and T&D), Pharmaceuticals, Municipalities and Facilities (Casinos). David has a diverse set of system skills including functional and technical for Maximo, Datastream 7i (now Infor EAM), and MP2. Over the past several years, David has expanded his abilities in the IBM Maximo Asset Management realm by rolling out several aggressive upgrades. He has recently completed his PMP Certification course from Clemson University and is currently engaged on a large deployment with Tucson Electric Power. This project’s goals include upgrading current CMMS systems to a standard Maximo 7 platform across generation, transmission and distribution, including increasing data quality and the associated reliability programs it supports. David’s cardinal principle is to provide the highest quality service which translates to “on-time and under-budget implementations”. This dedication translates to a 100% customer reference rate and increasing repeat business. David has the natural ability to become part of the client family in a very short period of time.

In his spare time, David is an avid sailor and participated in the 2011 Marion (Massachusetts) to Bermuda Race with fellow GenesisSolutions colleague, Mr. Stephen Santoro. While things didn’t go as well as planned, it was a great experience that they will build on for 2012’s Newport (Rhode Island) to Bermuda Race.

GenesisSolutions & SSI Manufacturing Technologies

Announce Strategic Alliance

GenesisSolutions & SSI Manufacturing Technologies announced a teaming agreement in October 2011. SSI will be promoting GenesisSolution’s EAM, CMMS & Asset Reliability Services to its manufacturing clients in the Aerospace, Communications, Firearms, Medical and Oil Production industries. Similarly, GenesisSolutions will now be able to offer close tolerance, CNC precision machined parts and components to its manufacturing customers.

GenesisSolutions provides best-in-class Enterprise Asset Management services which allow organizations to implement best practice reliability services by leveraging and improving the data within their CMMS systems. These services include:

• Asset Management Master Planning
• EAM Assessment
• Reliability Engineering Workshop

Gary Hutchison, President of SSI, commented: “GenesisSolutions and SSI share a common vision: we both provide unsurpassed quality in products and services by utilizing innovative technologies, industry knowledge and expertise, and a firm customer commitment to achieve superior production and operating results. I am excited to now offer our customers specific ways and tools to improve their asset reliability and maintenance operations which will directly improve their bottom line.”

About SSI

First established over 50 years ago, SSI is a leading contract manufacturer of CNC milled, turned, and wire and sinker EDM machined custom parts, components and assemblies. SSI specializes in tight-tolerance precision machining from a wide variety of metals such as stainless steel, titanium, and aluminum, exotic alloys such as inconel, nitronic, and hastelloy and also castings and forgings.

SSI provides a wide range of engineering and manufacturing capabilities to support its customers in the aerospace, medical, communications, firearms, defense and oil and gas production industries. SSI works in close collaboration with its customers in the areas of engineering, material selection, and innovative inventory programs to help customers produce quality products efficiently and cost effectively.

Please visit http://www.ssimanufacturing.com/

2012 EAM Seminar Schedule Preview

Final Schedule to be released December 2011

GenesisSolutions will be releasing its complete schedule of regional EAM Seminars in December 2011.

We have provided the host cities below for our seminars which one attendee recently rated: “This was the best seminar I’ve attended in years.”

• Atlanta, GA
• Beaumont, TX
• Calgary, AB
• Corpus Christi, TX
• Houston, TX
• Iselin, NJ
• Mobile, AL
• San Diego, CA

In addition, we will be hosting our EAM Seminars in the following European Countries:

• Amsterdam
• Germany
• Scotland
• United Kingdom

The objective of these seminars is to provide an educational forum to promote a greater understanding of a progressive, multiphase Maintenance Master Plan and how to leverage your CMMS investment to support your Reliability Strategy. The outcome of this seminar will be that each individual will begin to understand how to develop and implement a Maintenance Master Plan to achieve sustainable Best-in-Class performance levels for proactive maintenance resulting in significant OEE improvements on targeted equipment as well as improvements in “right first time quality” metrics.

Please visit our website (www.GenesisSolutions.com) or contact us at info@genesissolutions.com or euinfo@genesissolutions.com to be added to our EAM Seminar mailing list.

Upcoming Industry Events

• Western Canada Maximo User Group (WCMUG)
• Fall 2011 Meeting
• December 6, 2011
• Vancouver, British Columbia

GenesisSolutions is a Bronze Sponsor and will be attending this meeting featuring presentations from BC Ferries, Copper Mountain Mining Corporation, IBM, Inter Pipeline Fund and Kinder Morgan Terminals.

For more information please visit: http://wcmug.org/

• Southern California Maximo Users Group (SoCalMUG)
• Fall 2011 Meeting
• December 7, 2011
• Los Angeles, CA (Hosted by UCLA)

GenesisSolutions will be attending this bi-annual meeting whose theme this Fall is “Achieving Operational Business Objectives while Improving the User Experience.”

For more information please visit: http://maximousers.org/scmug/

• IBM Pulse 2012
• March 2012
• Las Vegas, Nevada

GenesisSolutions is a Gold Sponsor and will be presenting and exhibiting at this major IBM Maximo Asset Management Event. Please monitor our website and follow our newsletter for updates as we draw closer to this event.

For more information please visit: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/

Senior Reliability Engineer

Brian Taite graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1992 and Bachelor of Civil Engineering in 1994 and went on to complete a Masters of Environmental Engineering in 1999. Prior to joining GenesisSolutions he was engaged as a consultant for a number of major oil companies, government agencies and within private industry for environmental site assessments, risk assessments, site remediation, project management and health and safety planning.

Working on environmental clean-up projects led to experience in maintenance and management of various remediation equipment systems. Along with overall project management, financial planning and cost control, Brian was involved with all aspects of project work including preparation of technical specifications, equipment refurbishment and optimization, corrective maintenance, failure modes identification and assessment, recommendations for system improvements, and the development of preventative maintenance routines.

In 2006, Brian joined the GenesisSolutions team as a contractor in The Netherlands as part of the Shell Upstream International Europe, Technical Integrity Enhancement Program (TIEP) for the ONEgas Asset. This includes almost 60 natural gas offshore production platforms and two onshore gas plants in the Southern North Sea. The project involves identification of safety critical elements, development of performance standards and review and development of maintenance routines in Shell Oil’s CMMS system (SAP Blueprint) to ensure the performance standard assurance tasks are well defined and fully covered under the preventative maintenance plans for all safety critical equipment.

Now a GenesisSolutions employee, Brian has embraced the opportunity to become involved with the North Sea Oil and Gas industry and to help Shell maintain its high safety standards through top tier maintenance programs and compliance activities. He has great personal and professional satisfaction while applying his background in maintenance and reliability engineering to enhance the technical integrity of ONEgas assets, protect the environment and ultimately ensure the safety of the people who work at these facilities.

GenesisSolutions - Tivoli Support Provider & Reseller

IBM Maximo Asset Management

GenesisSolutions has executed an IBM Tivoli Support Provider & Reseller Contract for the IBM Maximo Asset Management software application. With this new contract, GenesisSolutions is now an Authorized IBM Business Partner and officially licensed to resell, implement and provide Level One Support to IBM Tivoli’s Maximo Customers.

Although GenesisSolutions has been a business partner of IBM as a Systems Integrator for the past 12 years, this new contract solidifies a long standing business relationship and opens up a number of value-driven opportunities for our customer base.

Joe Pitman, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at GenesisSolutions commented: “This is a long time coming. We have been working closely with the IBM Maximo Asset Management team for years, and now we have a platform to build an even more profitable relationship and solutions to our mutual customer base. This new agreement makes sense for all parties, and we’re excited to align our IBM Maximo business practice to increase our customers overall satisfaction with their best-of-breed and industry defining application.”

GenesisSolutions will be a Gold Sponsor at the upcoming IBM Pulse 2012 conference to be held March 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition, we will be promoting our new relationship at both industry and regional Maximo User Group conferences throughout North America & Europe over the next several months.

GenesisSolutions & Solufy Announce Strategic Alliance

Commence First Teaming Engagement Summer 2011

GenesisSolutions and Solufy have announced a strategic alliance to expand their portfolio of service and software offerings to their customers and market base. GenesisSolution’s professionals will assist Solufy’s customers in the installation, training and rollout of the AKWIRE Visual Scheduler for the IBM Maximo Asset Management Software application.

In conjunction with the recently announced alliance, GenesisSolutions & Solufy are currently engaged with their first joint project. The combined team is providing reliability and maintenance expertise to support one of the largest producers of high-quality metallurgical coke in the Americas with the installation, configuration, training and operation of Solufy’s AKWIRE Visual Scheduler, and to support this client with planning and scheduling operations for both short and long term work across a network of plants.

The AKWIRE Visual Scheduler for Maximo is a user friendly, flexible and powerful planning and scheduling tool to visually perform PM forecasting, organize and prioritize existing Work Orders and assign tasks to workforces, while showing the availability of Labor, Crafts, Workgroups, Crews, and Tools / Materials.

Read the Full Article

EAM & Reliability Strategy Seminar

Houston, Texas - October 4, 2011

GenesisSolutions and The Mundy Companies will be hosting a complimentary seminar on Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Reliability Strategy in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, October 4, 2011. The seminar will be hosted at the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake. To view the complete agenda and logistical details, please click here.

Topics that will be discussed include:

• Maintenance Maturity Continuum
• Current State Assessment
• Maintenance Master Planning
• Implementation Models for Operational Excellence
• Maintenance Excellence Governance Model
• Reliability Based Maintenance
• Maximizing Return on Investment
• Key Elements for Success
  • Organizational Readiness
  • CMMS Functionality & Utilization (IBM Maximo, Infor EAM, Oracle EAM, SAP PM)
  • MRO Supply Chain
  • PM Optimization
  • Planning & Scheduling

Intended Audience: Maintenance & Manufacturing Managers & Directors, Engineering & Finance Managers & Directors, Key Stakeholders from Maintenance, Purchasing and IT, including Maintenance Supervisors, Planners / Schedulers, and CMMS Administrators.

Instructors: Rob MacArthur, President of GenesisSolutions, Mike Greenholtz, VP of Reliability Solutions, Joe Pitman, VP of Sales & Marketing, John Rocco, EVP, The Mundy Companies

We hope you can join us for this educational and interactive discussion. Please contact (203) 431-0281 or info@genesissolutions.com for additional information.

Upcoming Industry Events

• GOMAXIMO (Gas & Oil Maximo User Group)
• 2011 Annual Conference
• September 28-30, 2011
• Houston, Texas

Elevating Performance through Integrated Operations and Maintenance

The 2011 Annual GOMAXIMO User Group Conference program emphasizes integrated operations and maintenance and the effective use of resources - collaborating between operations, engineering, and maintenance to keep your equipment ready to perform when it is needed and to elevate safety and environmental performance in order to take advantage of future opportunities.

GenesisSolutions is a Group Sponsor and will be attending this event.

Please visit the GOMAXIMO Home Page Here: http://gomaximo.org/

• Maximo User Group UK & Ireland
• Fall 2011 Meeting
• September 29, 2011
• London (IBM UK Southbank)

GenesisSolutions will be attending and co-presenting at the Fall 2011 Maximo User Group UK & Ireland on September 29, 2011. This bi-annual meeting typically attracts 100+ delegates.

We will be reprising our IBM Pulse 2011 co-presentation with TEP on “Quantum Leap - Implementing Maximo 7 to Manage All Asset Classes at Tucson Electric Power”.

For additional meeting details, please visit: http://www.tivoli-ug.org/groups?groupid=217#1556

• EAM & Reliability Strategy Seminar
• October 4, 2011
• Houston, Texas (Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake)

Details Above

• FMMUG (Facilities Management Maximo Users Group)
• 2011 Best Practices
• October 16-18, 2011
• Plano, Texas (Hosted by JC Penney & Johnson Controls)

GenesisSolutions will be attending this annual event which provides user presentations focusing on Facilities Best Practices initiatives utilizing IBM Maximo Asset Management.

We will also be providing a “Facilities Planning & Scheduling: A Best Practices Overview” workshop with Solufy on Tuesday, October 18th.

For additional meeting details, please visit: http://fmmug.org/

• SMRP (Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals)
• 19th Annual Conference
• October 17-20, 2011
• Greensboro, North Carolina

GenesisSolutions will be sponsoring, exhibiting, attending and co-presenting at the 19th SMRP Annual Conference. Our co-presentation, on Tuesday, October 18th, focuses on how a Major Healthcare Provider increased Operational Performance through a Standardized CMMS and integrated Reliability Program.

For additional meeting details, please visit: http://www.smrp.org/Conference/index.asp

GenesisSolutions and Solufy have announced a strategic alliance to expand their portfolio of service & software offerings to their customers and market base. GenesisSolution’s professionals will assist Solufy’s customers in the installation, training and rollout of the AKWIRE Visual Scheduler for the IBM Maximo Asset Management software application.

In conjunction with the recently announced alliance, GenesisSolutions & Solufy are currently engaged with their first joint project. The combined team is providing reliability and maintenance expertise to support one of the largest producers of high-quality metallurgical coke in the Americas with the installation, configuration, training and operation of Solufy’s AKWIRE Visual Scheduler, and to support this client with planning and scheduling operations for both short and long term work across a network of plants.

The AKWIRE Visual Scheduler for Maximo is a user friendly, flexible and powerful planning and scheduling tool to visually perform PM forecasting, organize and prioritize existing Work Orders and assign tasks to workforces, while showing the availability of Labor, Crafts, Workgroups, Crews, and Tools / Materials.

GenesisSolutions, a Global Leader in EAM & Asset Reliability Services, has decades of experience building, operating and improving planning and scheduling processes and the elements that support it. Genesis consultants bring cross-industry best practices and a methodology to educate, train and implement operations and maintenance to achieve maximum gains. GenesisSolutions consultants use a combination of classroom education, planner / scheduler functional training, systems training (CMMS and supporting software) and in-the-field training and development to show proof of concept and demonstrate effectiveness real-time, and leave our customers teams ready to complete key activities including: the annual plan, backlog management, work prioritization, outage planning, post-outage reviews, systems usage guides, and measure planning and scheduling effectiveness and impact on reliability.

GenesisSolutions and Solufy have been engaged for the past 18 months delivering “Planning & Scheduling – A Best Practices Overview” workshops to regional Maximo User Group conferences throughout North America.

Mario Boileau, President & CEO of Solufy commented: “I am excited about our working relationship with GenesisSolutions. Their Planning & Scheduling expertise in the Maintenance & Reliability industry is a perfect compliment in ensuring our customers are receiving Best Practices experience and execution as they tap into the power of the AKWIRE application. I see this as a phenomenal growth opportunity for both organizations, and an excellent opportunity for Maximo users to enhance and improve their Planning & Scheduling function.”

About Solufy

Solufy is an Information Technology company focusing on delivering quality software solutions to augment the functionality of Maximo, and other enterprise class systems. Solufy’s flagship product, AKWIRE™, provides a platform, with off-line capabilities, that can host an ever expanding suite of tools for Maximo and other enterprise systems. The mission is to provide configurable, fully customizable, and expandable software that can meet an organizations ever growing business needs. www.Solufy.com

GenesisSolutions & The Mundy Companies are committed to providing an educational forum to promote a greater understanding of a progressive, multiphase Maintenance Master Plan and how to leverage your CMMS investment to support your Reliability Strategy. Please contact us for a full description of the one-day EAM and Reliability Strategy Seminar which has a focus on “Defining your Maintenance Master Plan”. Additionally, the full agenda complete with speaker bio’s is available Here

Registration, Agenda & Further Information: info@genesissolutions.com

Manager, Professional Services

Tim Gilmer began his career in 1987 as a Junior Chemist at Milliken Chemical after graduating from Wofford College with a degree in Biology. While at Milliken, Tim was responsible for R&D on several product lines which afforded him the opportunity to work with Engineering and Production personnel at two production facilities as well as both quality labs. During his time at Milliken, Tim co-authored two patents and piloted the company’s first ultra-filtration unit that recovered millions of dollars of product in the first year.

In 1990, Tim took a position as Technical Director with a company based in the UK that was starting a manufacturing facility in the US. Tim was the third employee hired and participated with building the facility, the installation and commissioning of equipment, developing base formulations for products, and developing all procurement relationships with raw material vendors. Tim was responsible for all technical aspects of the company, which also included Engineering and Maintenance. The company grew quickly and was financially self-sufficient inside of 36 months. The company developed a niche market for custom power coatings, and is currently one of the very few in the world that can deliver custom color and texture powder within 24 hours.

Tim took a position with Datastream Systems in the fall of 1994, where he was a consultant with the responsibility of helping customers install and setup Datastream’s CMMS products. Tim also trained the end-users on the application onsite as well as in structured classed offered by Datastream. Tim worked at Datastream until April 2003, and during this time he worked in Product Development, Direct Sales, Internal Training, and Corporate Training.

In 2003, Tim joined GenesisSolutions as a Principal Consultant, primarily focused on Datastream projects. Since that time, Tim has worked on many Datastream (now Infor EAM) and IBM Maximo Asset Management projects in various capacities. Tim is now a Manager of Professional Services and is responsible for the overall success and management of customer engagements. He has overseen successful EAM projects in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical and automotive industries. Tim ensures his customers success through strong project management skills, EAM system expertise and by driving team collaboration.

Project Summary: CMMS Migration within a Biotechnology Environment

IBM Maximo Asset Management migration to SAP PM

One of the world’s leading biotechnology companies needed to upgrade their IBM Maximo Asset Management system. A new corporate directive was driving their maintenance system to SAP PM. The impending transition to the new system was daunting from a data perspective, and GenesisSolutions was asked to support the system upgrade and data preparation based on our experience and long held and successful history with the company.

To read the complete Project Summary, please click Here

Reliability Engineering Workshop Service Offering

Announcement on Commercial Availability

GenesisSolutions announced this month the availability of a 3-day Onsite Reliability Engineering Workshop geared towards a facilities “Bad Actors” (Assets). Every plant has them, and through this workshop, you will be provided concrete steps to measurably improve their reliability and decrease their direct maintenance costs.

This workshop has been developed and delivered on a global basis to Fortune-500 companies over the past eight years. Through these efforts, it has become a company-wide global standard, and is now being made available on a commercial basis. It is intended for small groups (10-12 attendees) of Key Stakeholders & Reliability Professionals to establish real methods to achieve measurable results and the training to sustain it.

Please contact info@genesissolutions.com for more information and pricing, or view the Workshop Description / Abstract Here

Upcoming Events

• 5th Annual Maintenance & Reliability Symposium
• MaRS 2011 - SMRP Houston Chapter
• August 17-19, 2011
• Galveston, TX

MaRK your calendar for MaRS 2011! The 5th Annual Maintenance and Reliability Symposium will kick off with a Golf Tournament at Moody Gardens Golf Course on August 17th followed by 1-1/2 days of networking opportunities, exposure to the latest tools and techniques, and knowledge transfer from today’s industry leaders.

GenesisSolutions will be attending and exhibiting in partnership with The Mundy Companies.

For more information: http://www.smrphouston.org/events.htm

• GOMAXIMO (Gas & Oil Maximo User Group)
• 2011 Annual Conference
• September 28-30, 2011
• Houston, TX

Elevating Performance Through Integrated Operations and Maintenance

The 2011 Annual GOMAXIMO User Group Conference program emphasizes integrated operations and maintenance and the effective use of resources - collaborating between operations, engineering, and maintenance to keep your equipment ready to perform when it is needed and to elevate safety and environmental performance in order to take advantage of future opportunities.

GenesisSolutions is a Group Sponsor and will be attending this event.

Please visit the GOMAXIMO Home Page Here: http://gomaximo.org/

• Maximo User Group UK & Ireland
• Fall 2011 Meeting
• September 29, 2011
• London (IBM UK Southbank)

GenesisSolutions will be attending and co-presenting at the Fall 2011 Maximo User Group UK & Ireland on September 29, 2011. This bi-annual meeting typically attracts 100+ delegates.

We will be reprising our IBM Pulse 2011 co-presentation with TEP on “Quantum Leap - Implementing Maximo 7 to Manage All Asset Classes at Tucson Electric Power”.

For additional meeting details, please visit: http://www.tivoli-ug.org/groups?groupid=217#1556

• EAM & Reliability Strategy Seminar
• October 4, 2011
• Houston, TX

GenesisSolutions & The Mundy Companies invite you and your team to attend a complimentary, one-day, Enterprise Asset Management and Reliability Strategy Seminar and Workshop, at the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake, on Tuesday, October 4th, 2011. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

GenesisSolutions & The Mundy Companies are committed to providing an educational forum to promote a greater understanding of a progressive, multiphase Maintenance Master Plan and how to leverage your CMMS investment to support your Reliability Strategy. Please contact us for a full description of the one-day EAM and Reliability Strategy Seminar which has a focus on “Defining your Maintenance Master Plan”.

Registration, Agenda & Further Information: info@genesissolutions.com

Principal Consultant

James Johnson began his career in the manufacturing industry as a Programmer / Analyst. Upon graduation from Purdue University in 1988 with a degree in Computer Technology, he began working as a Programmer / Analyst in a small spring manufacturing company. James was hired by Myers Spring Company to design and develop a software application to control a spring processing machine the company was building. The application allowed a machine operator to program the machine to feed, bend and cut wire, and ensure the springs were within their customers design tolerances.

In 1997 he took an opportunity to join a Maximo Implementation project at a Major Pharmaceutical. His main project responsibility was the migration of data from five legacy systems into Maximo 3 and 4 for an Enterprise Implementation spanning eleven sites and multiple manufacturing plants across the United States, Europe and Puerto Rico. Additional responsibilities included leading inventory configuration and integration efforts.

After a five year stint of designing, building, deploying and supporting the Data Warehouses at a Consumer Electronics manufacturer, he continued in the maintenance software industry when he joined GenesisSolutions in 2006, where he is currently a Principal Consultant. James has been involved in two multi-year Maximo Upgrade Implementations including international roll outs and complex data migrations. Currently he is assisting one of the world’s leading agricultural processors with a global upgrade from Maximo 5 to 7. He has contributed in many areas including business process development, test script development, screen design, custom applications, and data migration.

When not at a customer site, James can be found golfing and riding around the countryside in his black and gold convertible Mustang, or hanging at one of the many local race tracks in Indianapolis, Indiana with friends and family.

GenesisSolutions Announces Mid-Year 2011 Training Curriculum

Asset Reliability, IBM Maximo Asset Management & Infor EAM Course Offerings

GenesisSolutions released its mid-year 2011 Training Curriculum on June 30th. Our training is geared towards IT, Maintenance & Reliability Engineering Professionals involved in Enterprise Asset Management initiatives, implementations, and improvement & upgrade planning projects.

Our EAM Systems & Technology Training is targeted for IBM Maximo Asset Management (Versions 4, 5, 6 & 7 through 7.5) and Infor EAM 8.5 users and administrators and can be applied to other leading CMMS systems.

Our Reliability Training includes a 3-day hands-on Reliability Engineering Workshop as well as an Asset Management Master Planning Workshop providing principles and guidance on creating a maintenance master plan with a goal of establishing and achieving Operational Excellence initiatives within an organization.

The full listing of Course Offerings is Available Here

Asset Management Master Planning

New One Day Workshop

Following the success of our 2010 - 2011 Regional EAM Seminar Schedule, GenesisSolutions has begun offering our current customers and contacts a One-Day Onsite Asset Management Master Planning Workshop.

The Workshop provides an outline of how to establish an Asset Management Master Plan for your organization to move from Reactive Maintenance to true Enterprise Asset Management. Areas of focus include:

• Organizational Readiness
• EAM / CMMS Data Quality
• Workforce Management
• Maintenance & Reliability
• Inventory Management
• Planning & Scheduling
• Metrics & Performance Improvement

The discussion & presentation is led by a team consisting of a Senior Reliability Engineer and a Senior CMMS Consultant. The results are an interactive discussion and forward thinking project plan identifying areas for improvement and opportunities for ROI.

For more information on our One Day AMMP Workshop, click Here

Cycling for a Cure - 2011 Pan-Mass Challenge

Anthony DeSimone, a Senior Account Executive at GenesisSolutions, will be participating in the 2011 Pan-Mass Challenge, which is a two-day, 192 mile bike ride from Sturbridge to Provincetown, Massachusetts on August 6 & 7, 2011. All proceeds go to cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Anthony has raised over $6,000.00 individually and has been training for this event over the past several months. We wish him the best of luck on his endeavor. To track Anthony during his ride, please visit: http://www.pmc.org/profile/AD0137

Upcoming Events

• MWMUG (Mountain West Maximo User Group)
• Summer / Fall 2011 Meeting
• Park City, Utah
• August 7-9, 2011

The Mountain West Maximo User’s Group will be hosting their 3rd Annual Summer / Fall Meeting in Park City, UT in August 2011. The meeting attracts Maximo users in the Mountain West area, and features user presentations from organizations including Conagra Foods, the University of Utah and URS.

GenesisSolutions is a sponsor of this event and will be providing a “Sponsor Spotlight” showcasing our current Maximo customer projects as well as examples from some recently completed cross-industry EAM Assessments.

Please visit the MWMUG Home Page Here: http://www.mwmug.org/

Following the success of our 2010 - 2011 Regional EAM Seminar Schedule, GenesisSolutions has begun offering our current customers and contacts a One-Day Onsite Asset Management Master Planning Workshop.

The Workshop provides an outline of how to establish an Asset Management Master Plan for your organization to move from Reactive Maintenance to True Enterprise Asset Management. Areas of focus include:

• Organizational Readiness
• EAM / CMMS Data Quality
• Workforce Management
• Maintenance & Reliability
• Inventory Management
• Planning & Scheduling
• Metrics & Performance Improvement

The discussion & presentation is led by a team consisting of a Senior Reliability Engineer and a Senior CMMS Consultant. The results are an interactive discussion and forward thinking project plan identifying areas for improvement and opportunities for ROI.

To Access the Workshop Overview, Please Click Here

GenesisSolutions has released its mid-year 2011 Training Curriculum. Our training is geared towards IT, Maintenance & Reliability Engineering Professionals involved in Enterprise Asset Management initiatives, implementations, improvement and upgrade planning projects.

Our EAM Systems & Technology Training focuses on IBM Maximo Asset Management (Versions 4, 5, 6 & 7 through 7.5) and Infor EAM and can be applied to other leading CMMS systems.

Our Asset Reliability Training focuses on Asset Management Master Planning principles and guidance on establishing Operational Excellence initiatives within the organization.

The full listing of Course Offerings is Available Here

Senior Reliability Engineer

Steve Cormack comes to GenesisSolutions with over twenty-five years experience in Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Management, MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Operations) supplies procurement, application and repair, and hands-on operational experience across a spectrum of industries including pharmaceutical and biotech (regulated environments), aerospace / defense, oil & gas, discrete manufacturing, petrochemical, pulp & paper, and utilities industries.

Prior to joining Genesis, Steve served as the leader of the consulting arm for a multi-billion dollar corporation, responsible for the development of integrating supply chain solutions to its client base. Here he created methodologies for data management and BPI consulting programs; moreover, he served as the leader of a development team establishing program scope of services to support a customer base that generated nearly $50M in sales annually.

In his current role as a Principal Reliability Engineer he focuses on developing technical solutions for his customers centering on maintenance and reliability improvement. His experience in business development & project management oversight includes conceptual development, scope definition, sales, implementation planning and final delivery. Key deliverables in these projects were: standardized methodologies for knowledge transfer to customer personnel, return-on-investment analysis, development of asset management strategies for critical equipment, and MRO supply chain management techniques and tools.

Steve earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration at the University of Montevallo located in South Central Alabama and resides in Birmingham, AL with his wife of 28 years, Linda, and their daughter Meredith. Steve enjoys playing competitive tennis and an occasional round of golf.

Major Pharmaceutical Healthcare Provider - Improving Maximo through a Standard Build

An EAM / CMMS Success Story

Please contact Mr. VJ Venkatraman, vvenkatraman@genesissolutions.com for project details.

Upcoming Events

• ISPE Carolina-South Atlantic Chapter
• Reliability Excellence Forum
• Raleigh, North Carolina
• June 2, 2011

GenesisSolutions will be participating with the ISPE Carolina-South Atlantic Chapter on Thursday, June 2, 2011 during their Reliability Excellence Forum. Quinton GoForth, a Principal Consultant - Reliability Services & EAM Systems with GenesisSolutions, will be presenting on “Asset Management Master Planning”.

For more information, please visit: ISPE Carolina-South Atlantic Chapter

• ISPE Washington Conference
• Washington, DC
• June 6-8, 2011

ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering) develops innovative professionals globally to achieve technical and operational excellence in the pharmaceutical industry. ISPE’s core purpose is to lead global change and innovation in pharmaceutical technology and processes. GenesisSolutions will be in attendance discussing our services and success working with the Pharmaceutical, Biotech & Life Sciences Industries in Leveraging CMMS Systems to Achieve Operational Excellence.

GenesisSolutions is exhibiting at this conference (Please visit us in Booth #34) and will be presenting on Asset Management Master Planning in the Expo Theatre.

Visit the ISPE Website: http://www.ispe.org/