We are an business partner and use IBM Maximo Application Suite to provide end to end solutions for our customers for a number of industries and sectors. The problems typically solved include work management, asset management, health and safety to name a few. These solution are all used to drive automation, increase productivity and reduce downtime.
Pros
Work Management
Asset Management
Inventory Management
Cons
Monitor provides a limited feature set for the price
The mobile app is free but offers significant issues when implementing
Heath has no easy way of migrating functionality between environments
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Maximo Application Suite is well suited for a number of asset management use cases for asset intensive industries. These solutions range from asset management, work management, inventory management. The areas that require improvement are on the asset performance management use cases (APM) such as monitor, health and predict - all areas with real time data.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (Information Services company, 501-1000 employees)
We primarily use IBM Maximo for asset management and inventory control across our multiple departments, but it didn't start that way. We initially deployed it at one plant for maintenance scheduling, and within half a year, it had become a vital operation for us. We currently use it on a daily basis to track office assets and warehousing inventory, and to directly integrate with newly developed procurement workflows.
Pros
Greater visibility across our assets.
The preventive maintenance plan is very customizable.
The responsive support team fixed a critical issue within the software just a week after reporting it.
Cons
The interface is not friendly, and it took a lot of time for our team to get comfortable with it.
Sometimes updates can led to unexpected lag and downtime.
It has many useful modules and features, but it is not well known, and I only recently found it after I was actively searching for it.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend Maximo to organizations with the patience and budget for long-term returns. It is not an easy platform to learn at first, but if you invest the time, it pays you back tenfold. It is not for people looking for a simple solution; this is a tool built for serious asset management.
Maximo helps me be more organized with their maintenance tasks which assigns lotos to buildings, sites, job plans and work orders. Their predictive maintenance technologies and gis integration also helps us in managing leaks and organizing repairs and furthermore their flexibility helps businesses including utilities and manufacturing as well.
Pros
a basic UI with sensible navigation and useful applications
competent in all spheres of electronic signatures and every criteria
flexible layout and flawless asset management integration
Cons
sql knowledge is essential for reporting, so non-IT teams find it useless
ibm upgrades sometimes cause disruption as they affect maintenance and production times
not being able to print work orders in bulk significantly lowers our efficiency
Likelihood to Recommend
I absolutely recommend Maximo if your business falls into a highly regulated sector or just needs a robust asset management and maintenance solution. Maximo's industry specific modules and flexibility helps it to satisfy the needs of all kinds of companies including our very own.
IBM Maximo Application Suite is used to track and execute asset maintenance from request to approval and assignment, tracking inventory and parts, labor hours, meter readings, and allowing for mobile entry on all forms of maintenance from preventive to corrective. Inspections are done regularly, and reports are used to meet regulatory compliance.
Pros
Work Execution
Reporting and Analytics
Inventory
Cons
Screen UI and user-friendly design especially for work requests of inexperienced users.
Needs a two-step inventory staging process for receiving and put-aways
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Maximo Application Suite is an amazing tool to improve your maintenance program and help meet organizational goals. From regulatory compliance to cost savings in inventory and work execution, the IBM Maximo Application Suite provides the ability to track it all to create meaningful results. IBM Maximo Application Suite Manage has been around for a very long time for a reason!
IBM Maximo helped us to understand different levels or stages of our work ground management. We got a client in the industry related to assembly line production, It gave us a perspective on how to automate many details on different equipment thus reducing very boring manual work. It alerts and issues in the line of equipment. We have created a metaverse point of view on the basis of findings from Maximos EAm and CMMS systems.
Pros
Mainteinance Management cycle Tracking
Performance Tracking
OpenSource Deployment Capability
Data Cognition
Cons
Documentation need more improvement for self developer
Integration between suites can be improved.
It needs A lot of effort to learn, very difficult for beginners
Pricing of licenses are too high
Likelihood to Recommend
It is only suited for very large-scale industries and with a proper workforce to check up on it creates magic but for small-scale beginners, it is not recommended. It is unnecessary for a small-scale industry with limited property to have such a capable auditor watching. This can be done manually. The pricing is also not suitable for small-scale industries anyway. Also learning or hiring this software-specific dev is difficult.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (Computer Software company, 11-50 employees)
As consultant I work at different customers within a various of industries like; Infrastructure, Oil & Gas Industrie and others. What I try to achieve is the optimal usage of Maximo within these companies. This takes time because of the changemanagement process you have to apply within these companies. When implementing a part of module and/or application of Maximo I look at it how it works out of the box and what the information need is of the company process. This means that most of the time we optimize the look and feel and handling within Maximo to make it easier to use in the day to day business. As now I'm working on the implementation of Scheduler and I have managed to customize this with additional configuration with Automation Scripting of Maximo. It still is not ideal the standard out-of-the-box solution of Scheduler, but I can manage it with the customer. What I would like is to be part of the next optimization of Scheduler. Because planning the work is one of the missing pilers within a lot of companies.
Pros
Promotion of the new Maximo Application Suite
Cons
Better support gold partners
Make it easier to communicate with the development departments
Give more insights of developments coming so we can inform our customers.
Likelihood to Recommend
The basics of Maximo is well thought about, but moving forward and looking at the new and existing industries the requirements are changing and do we need to also look at the basics of Maximo. Also, with the industries involveld to digital twin and more detailed asset management I think this are things to think about.
IBM Maximo is asset management tool. It was used as one stop solution for all buying, purchasing,assets, work orders and inventory management. I use it to develop applications, scripts and reports on it. It can be used where there is a need to manage the inventory and assets.
Pros
It is very effective in managing inventory.
We can create assets as we want.
We can customise the application as per need
We can have reports as per the need
We can use it on Ipad, smartphone as well
Cons
KPI units cant be modified
Likelihood to Recommend
It is majorly needed when dealing with a lot of users and lot of assets. It is recommended to use maximo if the organisation is large. It is not recommended in small organisations where are less employees.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 10,001+ employees)