Fewer resources. More automation and higher quality.
Whether your manufacturing operations are continuous, batch or discrete, you always need better ways to monitor, manage and maintain assets. IBM Maximo offers solutions to help you do just that and digitally transform your business in the process. You’ll find IoT-driven and AI-driven offerings for enterprise asset management (EAM), production optimization through asset performance management (APM), and visual inspection to solve quality assurance challenges. Maximo also has customized solutions to meet your specific business requirements. Discover how you can: → IDC Info Snapshot on resilient manufacturing (PDF, 117 KB) → Webinar: Building smart manufacturing operations (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Benefits of Maximo for manufacturers
Improve maintenance practices and plans
Analyze historical and real-time data to determine asset health, predict impending failures, and automate condition-based maintenance and schedules.
Understand assets in operational context
Use asset health and performance data to help operations, maintenance, and finance personnel make smarter decisions about scheduling, replacement and new investments.
Jumpstart your Industry 4.0 transformation
Deploy low-code and no-code capabilities that add AI-enabled remote asset monitoring and visual inspection to your existing production capabilities.
IBM Maximo for manufacturers: Built for any operation
For any type of manufacturer — from natural resources to industrial products — the IBM Maximo Application Suite offers critical EAM applications to improve operations, reliability, environmental and operational performance, reduce risk and increase your return on assets. Built on 30+ years of market-leading technology, these applications give you the power to centrally manage all your assets — such as pumps, production lines, RPA, and whole facilities — efficiently and effectively, all on a single platform and database. It also integrates critical asset information with business management systems, such as ERP and MES. Leveraging industry best practices, Maximo enables you to:
A better way to monitor, maintain and manage assets
IBM Maximo Asset Performance Management, part of the IBM Maximo Application Suite, delivers asset performance management (APM) capabilities to optimize monitoring, maintenance and replacement actions based on current asset health and predicted risks. Powered by AI and the IoT, you can make smarter decisions, minimize unplanned repair work, increase uptime, and reduce the risk of equipment failure. You can also:
A better way to monitor production and diagnose issues
IBM Maximo Visual Inspection, part of the IBM Maximo Application Suite, provides intelligent “eyes” to your operations with AI-powered computer vision. It’s easily deployed for business users without coding expertise. Maximo Visual Inspection delivers an intuitive toolset that streamlines the processes to label, train and deploy deep learning vision models. Combined with off-the-shelf mobile and edge devices, your enterprise can implement a fully automated platform, increase productivity, and identify production defects 24/7. You can also:
Manufacturing industry case studies
SMART Modular Technologies
With AI-powered visual inspection, a microelectronics manufacturer increased production yield by 10%, while increasing throughput by 20%.
Novate
Novate Solutions gained 24x7 process reliability using remote asset monitoring to spot imperceptible issues, before they caused downtime.
Boston Dynamics
Meet Spot, the industrial “cobot,” who’s a roaming edge device for data collection and analysis, handling mundane and dangerous tasks.