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Asset management solutionsTo support your business objectivesAchieve greater efficiency in asset management bymanaging all your asset types on a single platform.

Obtain an entirely new levelof asset awarenessEvery company knows it is crucial to care for the critical assetsthe company depends on, whether they include a fleet of trucksor a plant full of production equipment. To meet the specific needsof different asset types, organizations have traditionally relied onmultiple software solutions. These solutions, however, provide onlya partial view of an organization’s total enterprise assets, making itdifficult to identify areas for performance improvement. As a result,organizations don’t have the asset visibility they need to achievethe operational excellence they seek.IBM Maximo Asset Management takes the power, performanceand possibilities of asset management to an entirely new level.Built on a single software platform, Maximo Asset Managementdelivers a comprehensive view of all asset types — production,facilities, transportation and IT — across your enterprise. Thisholistic perspective allows you to see all of your assets, aswell as identify all of the untapped potential within them. Yougain the knowledge and control you need to closely align yourorganization’s goals with the overall goals of your business.

Get everything youneed to optimizeyour assets andyour businessConsisting of six key managementmodules — asset, work, service,contract, materials and procurementmanagement — Maximo AssetManagement is the only solution youneed to optimize the performance ofevery asset. To help maximize returnon assets, Maximo Asset Managementenables you to develop comprehensiveprograms for preventive, predictive,routine and unplanned maintenance.When you use MaximoAsset Management to helpmaximize the performanceand lifetime value of complexassets and closely align themwith your overall businessstrategy, you help:Together, these programs contribute toyour goals of reducing costs andincreasing asset uptime.IBM Maximo Asset ManagementWorkmanagement Improve return on assets. Decrease costs and risk. Increase productivity.Assetmanagement Improve asset-related ng. Increase asset service deliveryresponsiveness and revenue.ContractmanagementProcurementmanagement Facilitate regulatory complianceefforts.Materialsmanagement Lower total cost of ownership.

Turn knowledgeinto decisionmaking power andasset performanceMaximo Asset Management effectivelyWork managementthrough IBM Tivoli Service Desk andcaptures and analyzes your asset andManage both planned and unplannedfurther align asset management goalswork data. To help you optimize mainte-maintenance activities, from initial workand priorities in a manner that bestnance and service initiatives throughoutrequest and work order generationsupports overall business objectives.your enterprise, advanced capabilitiesthrough completion and recording ofBy infusing comprehensive servicein six key areas of asset managementactuals. Work planners can match joblevel management into your assetdeliver knowledge and control:tasks to available resources, estimatemanagement practice, you can:Asset managementAll the control you need to seamlesslyand obtain approval of costs, establish priorities and initiate maintenanceactivities across the enterprise.track and manage asset and locationdata throughout its entire life cycle.tion, work and cost history — overtime to help maximize productivityand extend asset life. Establish location and assethierarchies to roll up costs acrosssystems, subsystems and locations,and also obtain a complete understanding of asset costs. Monitor asset and location conditionsorganizational communication andverify that the services provided are Tracking tools enable detailed analysisof resources, materials and equipment Track asset detail — including loca- Define service offerings to help improveuse and costs — helping decreaselabor and materials costs. Graphical assignment manager helpsoptimize maintenance schedules andlabor use, assigning the right personwith the right skills to the right job. Preventive maintenance (PM) functionality allows you to put PM schedulesin place with the right job stepsand resource requirements, helpingto enable proactive — rather thanyou with your planning and yourreactive — maintenance that helpstechnicians with their work, to reducedecrease unplanned downtime.unplanned downtime and reactivemaintenance.those required to support the business. Establish service level agreements(SLAs) to help increase communication between your organization and thebusiness units, and help align servicelevels with business objectives. Monitor service level delivery proactively against metrics to avoid missingservice level commitments. Implement escalation procedures toproperly manage resources to achieveservice level commitments.Contract managementHave enhanced control over yourvendor contracts with this integratedService managementAllow end users to submit new servicerequests, as well as track and updateopen service requests. Apply additionalservice management best practices contract management system. Providecomprehensive contract managementsupport for purchase, lease, rental,warranty, labor rate, master, blanketand user-defined contracts.

Contract correlation links SLAs to Help optimize and plan inventory to Automated interval-based, meter-vendor contracts, helping you identifymeet maintenance demand precisely,based or event-driven purchasingunreliable vendors and low-qualitymaking the right parts available atcapabilities help you order the rightproducts. It also enables you to refer-the right location when needed. Asparts and services at exactly the rightence SLA performance metrics whena result, you help reduce stock-outs,time, improving purchasing processrenegotiating vendor terms.inventory shrinkage and carryingefficiency. A terms and conditions library allowsyou to consistently apply standardizedpolicies across the organization. Automatic notifications and alertscosts, as well as achieve economiesof scale through shared resources.Procurement managementSupport all phases of enterprise- Global purchasing support enablesgroup purchasing savings and efficiencies, and helps lower sourcing costs. Analysis tools and key performancehelp you meet vendor terms, avoidwide procurement, including directindicators (KPIs) measure procurementpenalties and get the most value outpurchasing and inventory replenish-performance such as order processingof every contract.ment. You can provide buyers withtimes, invoice accuracy and orderextensive requisition, quotation,delivery times.Materials managementKnow everything — what, when, where,how much and how valuable — aboutasset-related materials and their usage.Materials management functionalityrecords all material movements andadjustments, allowing for real-timematerial tracking, reporting and auditing. Track inventory transactions to helpstreamline parts and materials management and decrease costs by eliminatingexcess or obsolete inventory.vendor, purchase order and contractcapabilities, thereby allowing them toplan work more proactively. MaximoAsset Management easily integrateswith enterprise business systems fromvendors such as Oracle and SAP, andalso connects to online marketplacesand exchanges. Vendor management and vendorperformance analysis tools eliminatecostly off-contract buying, as well asverify the reliability of vendors and thequality of materials and services.

Adapt to yourunique needsNo matter the size of your company,IBM Maximo Change ManagerIBM Maximo Asset Navigatornumber of sites or variety of locations,Enjoy fully integrated, comprehensiveThis Web-based graphical systemMaximo Asset Management can helpchange and release management forprovides instant access to detailedyou manage all of your unique assetyour assets. Policy administration,parts and equipment illustrations,management business processes.process management and planningdiagrams, drawings and relatedBased on a flexible business processcapabilities help increase the speed,documentation. A highly navigableconfiguration model, Maximo Assetefficiency and consistency of changesassociation among locations, assetsManagement easily adapts to yourwhile helping minimize business risk.and parts easily guides you to the assetchanging business needs, protectingPlus, release management capabilitiesinformation you need, helping youyour investment — today and tomorrow.enable you to define the tasks, sched-quickly identify and select the correctules and resources required to releaseparts for your work and procurementBuilt on a Java 2 Enterpriseauthorized versions and asset configu-processes, and thereby improveEdition (J2EE ) component-basedrations into the production environment.overall performance and accuracy Internet architecture, Maximo Assetand manage your safety program.Management seamlessly fits in anyIBM Maximo Mobilemodern enterprise technology infra-Remotely access Maximo Assetstructure and integrates easily withManagement data while offline orIBM Maximo Adapterfor Microsoft Projectyour business systems. The adapt-online. Increase your workforce produc-Implement bidirectional connectivityable underlying technologies withintivity, accuracy and quality at anybetween Maximo Asset ManagementMaximo Asset Management make itlocation or environment with mobileand Microsoft Project to delivereasy to tailor without programming,Maximo applications, and promote yourcomprehensive access to work andkeeping you from being locked in fromsafety initiatives. Mobile workers canresource data from Maximo Assetone application release to another. Itscomplete more planned work, eliminateManagement for anyone who usesSOA and alignment to your businessnonproductive activities and reduceMicrosoft Project for scheduling andprocesses help you work the way youpaperwork and data entry. In addi-planning. View, plan and optimizewant to work, while having informationtion, having immediate data accessMaximo Asset Management work andvisibility across the enterprise.onsite leads to higher first-time fixresources together with Microsoftrates. Mobile applications support yourProject schedules, allowing you toThe following additional options extendremote-asset, workforce and inventorymanage complex, enterprise-wideMaximo Asset Management capabilitiesmanagement needs.projects. The adapter automaticallyand help you further reduce costs, facil-updates work, resources and sched-itate compliance efforts and achieveules in Maximo Asset Management.operating efficiencies.