As we continue our exploration of the IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS), our next application in focus is IBM MAS Manage - the heart of Maximo Application Suite, which brings all applications together. In today’s asset-intensive industries, success hinges on the ability to efficiently manage physical assets across their entire lifecycle. Organizations require more than just a static asset register—they need a dynamic, integrated solution that can handle complex workflows, ensure compliance, and drive performance. IBM Maximo Manage, a core application within the Maximo Application Suite (MAS), delivers exactly that.
The Heart of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
Maximo Manage is the operational backbone of IBM MAS. It offers comprehensive Enterprise Asset Management capabilities, empowering organizations to plan, track, and optimize asset performance while reducing downtime and operational costs. Whether you’re overseeing utilities, transportation, manufacturing, or facilities, Maximo Manage provides the tools to manage assets, work orders, inventory, and procurement—all in one unified environment.
Key Capabilities That Drive Results
- Work Management: Create, schedule, and track work orders seamlessly. Maximo Manage supports preventive, corrective, and condition-based maintenance, enabling teams to proactively maintain assets before failures occur.
- Asset Lifecycle Management: From acquisition to decommissioning, Maximo helps track every detail of an asset's life. Users can monitor usage, history, warranties, and performance metrics to maximize asset value.
- Inventory & Procurement: With integrated supply chain functionality, Maximo ensures critical parts and materials are available when needed, reducing delays and unplanned downtime.
- Job Plans & Safety: Standardize maintenance activities with job plans, while ensuring compliance through safety plans, permits, and risk assessments embedded in workflows.
- Mobile Access & Automation: Integrated with Maximo Mobile, technicians can access asset data and work orders on the go, and automation tools help reduce manual tasks and enhance productivity.
Seamless Integration Across MAS
What sets Maximo Manage apart is its ability to integrate natively with other MAS applications like Monitor, Health, and Predict. Real-time alerts from Maximo Monitor can trigger work orders in Manage. Asset condition scores from Maximo Health can influence maintenance prioritization. Predictions from Maximo Predict can automate preventive maintenance workflows.
Together, these applications create a connected ecosystem—driven by AI, IoT, and analytics—to support data-informed decisions across operations.
- Maximo Monitor ↔ Maximo Manage:
- Real-time sensor reading, alerts and anomalies from Monitor can generate or escalate work orders in Manage.
- Asset and location hierarchy data from Manage is shared with Monitor for contextual visualization and event correlation.
- Maximo Health ↔ Maximo Manage:
- Asset health scores and degradation trends from Health prioritizes the maintenance tasks in Manage. Either creating a new CM or pulling ahead a future PM work order.
- The following data from Manage is used in Health for creating Health Scores.
- Installation Date, Design Life – Asset’s Age/ Remaining Useful Life
- Lead Time – Time to acquire replacement
- Meters – To get sensor reading into Health Scores
- PMs – Next PM Due Data
- Maintenance Cost – Replacement to Repair Ration
- Failure Data – Mean Time Between Failure
- Maximo Predict ↔ Maximo Manage
- Failure predictions from Predict can trigger condition-based or predictive maintenance work orders in Manage.
- Work execution data from Manage (e.g., how often assets fail after a certain threshold of IOT readings) helps retrain Predict’s AI models for greater accuracy.
With that, I’ll sign off for now—stay tuned for more insights into the innovative features and functionalities of the Maximo Application Suite! Meanwhile, consider exploring how IBM MAS Manage connects workflows across your organization to drive efficiency and collaboration. Don't forget the FREE MAS Upgrade will be going away soon. Click to get started!