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Data-driven asset management with IBM Maximo Application Suite and Cloud Pak for Data
IBM has enhanced its Enterprise Asset Management platform, IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS), with IBM Cloud Pak for Data: a supporting platform which provides a framework for combining a variety of data from different areas of an organization. How does IBM Cloud Pak for Data help organizations gain additional asset management insights from available data? […]
An extra sense for gathering and analysing data
Ever considered inspecting a production line with an iPhone, a warehouse with a robot, or a bridge with a drone? Developers can now enhance applications with a ready-to-use module for image recognition: IBM Maximo Visual Inspection. This technology incorporates AI that analyses camera images to detect maintenance issues, steer autonomous vehicles or perform various […]
One platform for all EAM data
Determining the ideal moment for maintenance on a solar-panel farm on the basis of weather forecasts, performing fast, accurate quality control on a production line, and predicting a defect in a pipeline or improving safety on the work floor: it’s all possible with the IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS). The latest version of this […]
The possibilities of predictive maintenance
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could predict more accurately when an asset will need maintenance? IBM has expanded his Enterprise Asset Management platform Maximo Application Suite (MAS) with functionality to support customers in their ´Journey to Predict´. How does this new functionality work and what can you do with it? Predictive maintenance gives […]
More than the sum of the silos
Modern technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, cloud, artificial intelligence and block chain are frequently viewed as independent entities. However, in combination the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts or in this case the sum of its silos. Collectively, they comprise the basis for infinite possibilities in the area […]
Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution will be powered by the Cloud
It is no longer science fiction – the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is already upon us. A convergence of new technologies including robotics, AI, 3D printing and the IoT, all powered by the cloud and edge computing, is transforming the way we do business. Much the way the Internet, mobile and the PC […]
IBM Think 2018 – The Netherlands attract attention in Las Vegas
There was quite a sensation at the recent IBM Think 2018-Congress in Las Vegas. Dutch representatives of large Dutch organisations including the Port of Rotterdam and Schiphol Airport were presented there as stars. Not only with photos and quotes on the gigantic billboards on The Strip, the most important thoroughfare of America’s gambling capital, but […]
IoT gives asset management a new boost
Forget all the classic opinions regarding enterprise asset management (EAM). Links to new technological possibilities such as the IoT open up a world of new possibilities. This provides a real-time, mobile component when managing the life cycle of business resources and work processes. This development has not gone unnoticed. With IBM Maximo, we were recently […]
Highlights of the Watson IoT Comes to You event
On Friday October 6th, I was one of the speakers at the Watson IoT Comes to You event. In my presentation, I briefly explained where we currently stand with the development of the IoT: we have moved past the hype now; the implementation is currently in full swing. I also stressed that the IoT is […]