Assessments & Benchmarking
Identify performance gaps, compare reliability practices, and prioritize improvements across your asset management strategy with expert-led assessments and benchmarking.
Know Where You Stand. See Where You Can Go.
Before you can improve, you need a clear view of your current state. Uncover hidden gaps, identify high-impact opportunities, and build a path toward stronger performance with confidence with TRM’s assessment and benchmarking services.
Take Reliability And Maintenance To Another Level
With our proven process, TRM can help reliability engineers gain insights into strengths and shortcomings when it comes to managing multiple plants. Armed with this knowledge and a provided step-by-step plan, you can then address those areas that are below par and boost the efficiency and performance of your organization across sites.
Simplify
Simplify the maintenance, reliability, and performance of your entire enterprise.
Eliminate
Eliminate the gaps between your people, processes, and technology across multiple plants.
Improve
Form and execute clear organization goals to improve productivity and reduce maintenance costs.
How Do You Measure Up?
Gain an understanding of how well you are performing in 10 key process categories with an assessment from TRM.
Leadership & Organization
Preventive Maintenance
Master Data
Root Cause & Problem Elimination
Engineering Interface
Shutdown Management
Skills for Reliability & Maintenance
CMMS & Training
Materials Management
Planning & Scheduling
Work With Experts Who Elevate
Owe Forsberg
Owe Forsberg is a senior reliability engineer with 30 years of experience in multiple phases of Operations Management in asset–intensive industries. He has comprehensive experience in analyzing and streamlining operations processes while applying systems and technologies to increase productivity, quality, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Owe is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) and a Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA). He holds an MS in Management from NCSU and a BS in Marine Engineering from Linnaeus University (Sweden).
Christer Idhammar
Christer Idhammar is an award-winning and world-renowned Reliability and Maintenance Management guru. He has over 60 years of experience in reliability and maintenance. He started his career as a mechanic in the Swedish merchant marine 1961. As a consultant, he started the Idhammar group of companies in Sweden 1972 and founded IDCON Inc., now a TRM subsidiary, in Raleigh North Carolina in 1985. Christer is a frequent guest speaker at reliability conferences and has written dozens of books and articles, including his acclaimed book on reliability and maintenance, “Knocking Bolts”. Several hundred successful companies around the world have engaged Christer in their reliability improvement initiatives.
500+
Maintenance and reliability assessments conducted
100M
Dollars in cumulative savings from improved reliability
29%
Average increase in measured reliability
3%
Average increase in overall uptime
Industries Served
Resources
Explore insights, guides, and tools designed to help you unlock greater asset management performance and business value.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How do assessment and benchmarking work together?
TRM first assesses your current maintenance, reliability, and EAM performance to identify gaps, strengths, and improvement opportunities. Those findings are then benchmarked to show how your organization measures up, helping you prioritize the right actions across people, processes, and technology.
2. How long does a TRM assessment take?
TRM’s free online assessment takes less than 10 minutes to complete. A personal, in-depth assessment takes longer because the timeline depends on site count, operational complexity, stakeholder availability, and the level of detail required. TRM’s process is structured to minimize operational disruption while delivering a clear, prioritized improvement roadmap.
3. Does TRM recommend specific software platforms as part of the assessment?
Assessments are technology-agnostic. If your current system is a limiting factor, TRM’s Technology Selection service provides vendor-neutral guidance on choosing the best asset management software for your needs.
4. Which industries benefit most from TRM's assessments?
Any asset-intensive operation, including utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, benefits, especially those coordinating maintenance across multiple sites where process gaps tend to multiply.
5. What kind of ROI should we expect?
ROI varies by operation, but clients typically see faster cost recovery through reduced reactive maintenance, fewer unplanned outages, and better cross-site resource allocation. The benchmark results on this page speak for themselves.
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