Forty years of Maximo: this is what’s new in IBM MAS 9.1
Are you going to repair or replace? How do you prevent unexpected downtime? And what does maintenance really cost you now? The new IBM Maximo Application Suite 9.1 helps you find the answers quickly, with AI support, smart dashboards, predictive analyses and integrated data. The execution of your maintenance is also further supported with all kinds of smart tools. Here are some important innovations of IBM MAS 9.1.
Asset life cycle management from start to finish
In 1985, you bought Maximo with an IBM personal computer with a 20 MB hard drive, 512 KB of memory, color screen and mouse. According to the advertisement in Computerworld, that then-revolutionary combination from software company PSDI had a price tag of $25,000. A lot has changed forty years later. Maximo became IBM Maximo some time ago and has now grown into IBM MAS 9.1: a complete platform for asset lifecycle management.
Seamlessly exchange asset data
With IBM MAS 9.1, you combine functionality for asset performance management and work performance management in one environment. In other words, you have everything you need to maximize the performance and lifespan of your assets and to carry out maintenance work in the most effective and cost-efficient way. The great thing is that you seamlessly exchange data between the different parts of IBM MAS 9.1. And that’s just out of the box.
AI services that take work off your hands
One of the biggest innovations is the introduction of IBM Maximo AI Services. This collection of smart tools supports your maintenance organization at multiple levels.
- Maximo Assistant is a digital colleague who asks you questions in plain language. For example: “Show me all open work orders assigned to me.” The system converts that question into a query and displays the results directly in a handy overview. This saves a lot of time, especially if you are not familiar with SQL or the database structure. This also makes more complex searches more accessible. Future versions will go even further, with the ability to directly create new records, such as work orders for specific assets.
- Work Order Intelligence analyzes the description of a work order and makes suggestions for fields such as problem codes. This ensures consistent and structured registration, which is extremely important for your analyses and maintenance strategies such as FMEA. The system is constantly learning: if you choose a better value than the suggested one, it uses that input to improve future suggestions. IBM has designed the framework so that it can also be used for other fields, for example to automatically determine the work order type or the assigned solution group. This speeds up your work preparation and prevents errors.
- FMEA Builder (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) uses generative AI (via IBM Watson) to create FMEAs much faster. The AI makes proposals for failure modes, effects and mitigations based on built-in domain knowledge. You remain in control, but you save a lot of manual work and therefore valuable time.
Full insight into maintenance costs
How do you maintain financial oversight of the management and maintenance of your assets and can you rely on the figures? IBM MAS 9.1 also offers a solution for this with IBM Maximo Maintenance Cost Insights. This new financial dashboard, from Apptio, gives you a complete overview of cost items such as labor, materials, services and tools. You can easily zoom in per asset type or location to see where the greatest costs arise.
The dashboard also helps you improve your data quality. Missing or incorrect cost registrations are immediately noticeable. For example: a location with many work orders but hardly any registered costs may indicate poor input. This insight helps you not only with better reporting, but also with taking targeted measures to control costs and improve processes.
The dashboard also helps you improve your data quality. Missing or incorrect cost registrations are immediately noticeable. For example: a location with many work orders but hardly any registered costs may indicate poor input. This insight helps you not only with better reporting, but also with taking targeted measures to control costs and improve processes.
Strategic choices with Maximo Asset Investment Planner
When is it more advantageous to repair an asset, and when is replacement the best option? IBM Maximo Asset Investment Planner helps you to substantiate such choices with data. You model and analyze different investment scenarios, weighing costs, risks and performance against each other. This supports capex and opex decisions and makes it easier to make long-term plans.
You no longer have to extract data from IBM Maximo to calculate scenarios in Excel, because everything happens directly in IBM MAS 9.1. You can also easily include factors such as CO₂ emissions and sustainability in your considerations. The result: better-informed decisions and more efficient asset management throughout the entire lifecycle.
You no longer have to extract data from IBM Maximo to calculate scenarios in Excel, because everything happens directly in IBM MAS 9.1. You can also easily include factors such as CO₂ emissions and sustainability in your considerations. The result: better-informed decisions and more efficient asset management throughout the entire lifecycle.
And furthermore: IBM Maximo Facility Management
With a new module for Facility Management, based on IBM TRIRIGA, IBM MAS 9.1 expands the possibilities even further. You can now also integrate your building management and facility processes into IBM Maximo. We will return to this in more detail in a future blog.
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Curious about the new possibilities of IBM MAS 9.1 and how they support your organization? Contact Stefan Hoffmanns, via +31 (0)6 41 56 16 32 or s.hoffmanns@gemba.nl.