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IBM Maximo Application Suite is an enterprise asset management (EAM) platform.

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IBM Maximo Application Suite Reviews

What users are saying about IBM Maximo Application Suite.
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Pros

  • Comprehensive Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Robust Work Order Management and Automation
  • Effective Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Capabilities

Cons

  • Unintuitive and Cluttered User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX)
  • Performance and Implementation Issues with Mobile Application
  • Slow System Performance and Loading Times

IBM Maximo Application Suite is the one and only true promise for EAM solutions

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Jan-Willem SteurView profile
Senior Product Design/Development Engineer in Research & Development at ZNAPZ (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I Use IBM MAS as my primary EAM system to be able to track and trace my most critical assets as well as how planned and un planned work is performed.

Pros

  • Asset Register
  • LTAP / Long term Asset Planning - Maintenance Management
  • Work Management
  • Scheduling
  • Authorization
  • Reliability Engineering Support
  • Supporting processes like Procurement and Logistics
  • Asset Health
  • Asset Monitoring
  • Prediction Models

Cons

  • Reduce the overwhelming information in most critical applications
  • Easier configuration of the newer Graphite apps
  • Move the annoying green banner to the Header of the application instead of placing it on top of the save and search buttons
  • Create more Graphite apps for e.g. Assets, Locations, SR's (the most used applications beside Work Orders

Return on Investment

  • Positive - Ease of use and configuration
  • Negative - too overwhelming that causes changes in backlog (I want to have it despite I don't have any process or data for it)
  • Positive - OotB already useable
  • Negative - it would help the customer to embed more industry specific accelerators in terms of data set based on regulation / industry specific requirements
  • Positive - first real ALM package that includes EAM, RCM and APM
  • Beside the Industry Solution Functionailty also add IS specific Master Data sets as an accellerator

Alternatives Considered

SAP PPM, IFS Ultimo EAM and HxGN EAM

Other Software Used

IBM Cognos Analytics, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data, IBM Watson Discovery

Usability

Powerful maintainance management tool with room for simplification

Incentivized
Jeevan ShettyView profile
Maximo Developer in Engineering at Volvo cars corporation (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Maximo Application Suite is our enterprise management tool, where for our client, we use it to manage the lifecycle of an asset or an item, starting from creation to maintenance until becoming scrap. We will store all the information in our application. Using this, we will do preventive and predictive maintenance of the item. Also, we can monitor the health of the item regularly and keep track of inventory orders. If more items are needed via the reorder process we can order them. Also, we can do inventory spare parts management in IBM Maximo Application Suite. Also it has the feature of mobile application which is very useful for onfield technicians. Overall it's a complete package starting from creation till the scrapping of item or asset data will be stored also maintaining of these items or assets are done via IBM Maximo Application Suite.

Pros

  • Scaling of Enterprise asset management
  • Automation of Preventive maintainance
  • Workorder management
  • Asset health monitoring
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Optimization of inventory and spareparts

Cons

  • Implementation of the mobile functionality is too complex
  • Performance in highly customized environment
  • Licensing and complexity of product
  • Modernization of workflows

Return on Investment

  • Deployment of classfiles requires downtime
  • More bugs with newer version upgrade
  • Slow resolution for the bugs eventually have to wait for fix pack
  • Implementation of Mobile tools
  • Performance of the tool with heavy customisation

Alternatives Considered

IBM Maximo Application Suite, Db2 and IBM Managed Services for SAP Applications

Other Software Used

IBM Bob, IBM Maximo Application Suite

IBM Maximo Application Suite

Incentivized
Mohamed Adil ShaikhView profile
Senior Engineer in Engineering at EFS Facilities Services (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's very useful for facility management where maintenance is required. Assets mangement reliability maintenance is the basic solution this tools provide.
The business problem this product address is basically the maintenance and tracking of assets, each asset is tracked and tagged based on their locations and maintenance can be done based on the schedules. It also provides great insights on the dashboard.

Pros

  • Asset Management
  • Asset Maintenance
  • Reliability Maintenance

Cons

  • For Scheduled work orders
  • Complicated templates

Return on Investment

  • Accountability
  • Transperency

Alternatives Considered

Planon Universe and SAP Asset Performance Management

Other Software Used

SAP Enterprise Portal, Planon Universe

Maximo for Asset Management.

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As an Asset Management System Administrator, I use Maximo in different capacities, from creating work orders, service requests, preventive maintenance, and job plans to reviewing meter readings, running reports, and other maintenance-related activities. Our organization also uses Maximo for procurement, including multiple storerooms and thousands of items. The reporting capabilities are among the many features I use most.

Pros

  • The ability to use a large number of fields in different applications to collect data for future analysis.
  • Robust applications and database structure.
  • Applications to support Total Cost of Asset Ownership.

Cons

  • User Interface - It can be overwhelming in some applications.
  • Built-in notification process, e.g., SMS, Emails, Etc. Yes, it is possible to configure these notifications, but the configuration process is not as simple as on other platforms.

Return on Investment

  • The real ROI on Maximo comes from time savings in processes that can be automated or enhanced within Maximo.
  • Increased uptime (based on a good maintenance plan).
  • Since it offers a wide variety of fields for applications, the interface is not as user-friendly in some cases.

Maximo it Will Save you Time and Money

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Maximo to track Engineering work orders, Maintenance Calls, Downtime, Qualification Documents, PM Schedules mainly. It is nice to have all these items in one place to be tracked other systems that I have used only do bits and pieces and it is hard to keep track of it all.

Pros

  • Tracking work maintenance work orders
  • Revision Control for qualification documents
  • Tracking Machine Downtime
  • Reminding Maintenance about upcoming PMs.

Cons

  • There can be a bit of a learning curve when it comes to running it.
  • It is not always clear on error messages. For example, a missed required field when entering data can be hard to catch.
  • It can struggle sometimes exporting data into excel.

Return on Investment

  • We have fast turnaround time when machines are down.
  • Inventory tracking has helped with ordering the right parts at the right time
  • collaboration between groups.

Alternatives Considered

SOLIDWORKS

Other Software Used

SOLIDWORKS, TrackWise

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