Asset investment planning with IBM Maximo Application Suite

Optimize asset investments with AI insights to cut lifecycle costs, align budgets and achieve your goals smarter and faster

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Transform asset planning with data-driven insights

Asset managers face challenges with manual processes and scattered tools for critical infrastructure decisions. IBM Maximo Asset Investment Planning software helps you streamline investment strategies, enhance scenario planning and align maintenance with capital goals.

Benefits
Reduce asset lifecycle costs

Identify the optimal sequence of interventions and prioritize investments based on lifecycle costs, KPI impacts and available resources.

Improve capital efficiency with optimized asset investment plans

Maximize the value of your capital program with advanced optimization tools that boost profitability, enhance reliability and help you achieve your strategic goals.

Stay ahead of the curve

Make smarter decisions with risk-informed insights by quickly generating and comparing investment scenarios. Adapt to changing business conditions, minimize risk and maximize ROI.

Simplify compliance

Demonstrate transparency in asset investment to improve regulatory relationships and justify investment decisions to stakeholders, reducing risk and avoiding costly noncompliance penalties.

Align seamlessly for efficient operations

Coordinate plans across maintenance and capital planning objectives, breaking down silos and reducing inefficiencies to improve operational efficiency.

From strategy to execution

Seamlessly move from long‑term investment plans to approved work orders in Maximo Manage.

Key capabilities

Advanced optimization engine

Maximize asset value across the portfolio by leveraging advanced optimization techniques that analyze asset lifecycle data, failure probabilities, maintenance costs, and intervention options. The optimization engine evaluates asset condition, effective age, risk, and financial constraints to determine the optimal refurbishment and replacement strategies that minimize lifecycle costs while meeting performance and investment objectives.

Key features of the optimization engine include:

  • Effectively balancing multiple objectives, financial targets, KPI goals, and operational constraints to maximize asset value.
  • Optimizing the timing, sequencing, and selection of asset interventions, including refurbishment and replacement strategies, through a step-by-step lifecycle optimization process.
  • Leveraging asset lifecycle data, failure curves, effective age, maintenance costs, and intervention impacts to identify the most cost-effective investment plans.
  • Generating optimized intervention schedules that align asset-level plans with budget, financial, risk, and KPI objectives while minimizing lifecycle costs.
Screenshot showing IBM Maximo AIP Intervention

Scenario planning and analysis

Generates and compares different investment scenarios in minutes by using an intuitive scenario planning interface and advanced analytics. This capability enables rapid scenario generation and what-if analysis to respond quickly to changing business conditions.

Key capabilities that support this functionality include:

  • Smart scenario generation capability
  • Multi-objective scenario optimization
  • What-if analysis and plan approval
Screenshot showing IBM Maximo AIP Scenario Overview

Flexible value framework

Provides a fully customizable value framework that supports the objectives and KPIs of organizations across a range of industries, helping to ensure alignment with unique business needs and priorities.

Key ways to customize and optimize the value framework include:

  • Tailoring the value framework to your industry, business or asset class
  • Defining custom objectives and KPIs that align with your goals
  • Weighting and prioritizing objectives to reflect changing needs
  • Aligning with industry-specific regulations, standards and best practices
Screenshot showing customizable value framework

Executing investment plan into action

Seamlessly move from long‑term investment plans to approved work orders in Maximo Manage.

Maximo Asset Investment Planning connects optimization to execution by publishing plans to a centralized Investment Plan and translating approved interventions into work orders in Maximo Manage.

Maximo Asset Investment Planning - Execute investment plan

Seamless integration

Simplifies deployment through native integration with IBM Maximo® Application Suite, eliminating integration complexities and data silos from third-party, manual or custom-built systems. Unlocks seamless access to existing asset data to enable streamlined planning, informed decision-making and faster implementation.

Key integration capabilities include:

  • Using existing asset data and workflows in MAS
  • Enabling data exchange across Maximo modules with an end-to-end Asset Lifecycle Management solution
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Take the next step

Make your maintenance and support responsibilities a lot less complicated with a unified asset management solution backed by AI and analytics. 

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