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Modern-day organizations require intelligent systems to manage complex physical assets efficiently. Traditional tools often fall short in dealing with real-time data, remote asset monitoring, and predictive maintenance. The IBM Maximo® Application Suite (MAS) offers a unified, AI-powered platform that helps organizations manage the full lifecycle of assets, improve operational performance, and reduce downtime.
MAS brings together powerful capabilities in a modular, cloud-native architecture that adapts to your organization’s unique operational and infrastructure needs. From field technicians to plant operators, every user benefits from centralized visibility, automation, and data-driven decision-making.
What is IBM Maximo® Application Suite?
IBM Maximo® Application Suite is the modern evolution of IBM’s flagship enterprise asset management software. It transforms legacy systems into a comprehensive digital solution, designed to manage assets, collect data, and optimize maintenance strategies.
At its core, MAS combines several applications into one suite, each tailored to different aspects of asset management. These include IBM Maximo® Manage, Monitor, Health, Predict, Visual Inspection, Mobile, and Assist. Together, they provide end-to-end visibility and control over asset life cycles, maintenance costs, and operational productivity.
Built on Red Hat OpenShift, MAS supports containerized deployment, offering flexibility across IBM Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, or private cloud environments. This allows organizations to manage critical assets while meeting internal security and governance standards.
Core Capabilities of IBM Maximo® Application Suite
Core capabilities of IBM Maximo® MAS leverage AI, IoT, and analytics to optimize asset performance, extend life cycles, and reduce downtime and costs.
Here are some crucial capabilities of the IBM Maximo® application suite.
IBM Maximo® Manage
IBM Maximo® Manage forms the backbone of the suite. It provides a centralized system to manage asset classes, locations, and configurations. Organizations can view asset conditions, schedule preventive maintenance, and log service requests—all from a single interface.
The application captures asset data across various departments, enabling collaboration and compliance. It supports industry-specific solutions and integrations, including SAP and Oracle, helping businesses streamline workflows and reduce operational downtime.
Maximo Monitor
With IBM Maximo® Monitor, organizations can visualize current and historical performance of devices and assets. It pulls data from IoT sensors and edge devices to detect anomalies, trends, and potential equipment failures before they disrupt operations.
Its customizable dashboards help teams act quickly, ensuring continuous monitoring of critical assets across multiple sites. This leads to faster responses and better-informed decisions backed by real-time insights.
IBM Maximo® Health
IBM Maximo® Health assesses asset condition using a scoring system that includes metrics such as failure history, utilization rates, and maintenance-to-replacement ratios. These scores help prioritize maintenance tasks and reduce the likelihood of unexpected breakdowns.
The solution enhances asset reliability by giving organizations a clearer picture of asset health. Work queues, data validation, and risk scoring ensure the right asset data is used to make operational decisions.
IBM Maximo® Predict
Maximo Predict uses machine learning and AI to forecast future failures based on historical data, inspection reports, and environmental conditions. This supports predictive maintenance strategies that lower maintenance costs and extend asset life.
By estimating time-to-failure and identifying risk trends, IBM Maximo® Predict helps organizations move away from reactive maintenance and adopt a condition-based maintenance model that is both cost-effective and proactive.
IBM Maximo® Mobile
Maximo Mobile enables field technicians to perform inspections, repairs, and maintenance using smartphones or tablets—even in offline environments. The mobile app provides access to asset records, work orders, and digital checklists.
Its user-friendly design improves first time fix rates and technician productivity, allowing faster response to issues and reduced downtime. Integration with IBM Maximo® Manage ensures that all updates sync automatically once the device reconnects.
IBM Maximo® Assist
IBM Maximo® Assist brings AI-powered virtual assistance to the maintenance floor. It uses a knowledge base of previous asset failures and fixes to guide technicians through diagnostics and repair procedures.
This support boosts technician confidence and accuracy, helping them resolve complex issues faster. By improving diagnostics, it also reduces return visits and drives higher operational performance.
What is IBM Maximo® Visual Inspection?
IBM Maximo® Visual Inspection (MVI) applies computer vision and deep learning to asset monitoring and quality control. It enables organizations to train AI models using images or video, helping detect defects, classify parts, and automate inspections.
This capability is especially useful in manufacturing, where MVI can identify anomalies in real time, ensuring product consistency and preventing defective outputs. MVI works hand-in-hand with IBM Maximo® Monitor and Predict to enhance data accuracy and asset performance.
Technicians can use mobile devices to capture images for analysis, allowing remote inspections and reducing the need for manual quality checks. This not only increases inspection efficiency but also reduces total cost and improves safety outcomes.
Benefits of Using IBM Maximo® Application Suite
IBM Maximo® MAS offers a single solution for managing diverse asset classes across various industries. Its unified platform simplifies integration, reduces complexity, and boosts system reliability.
The suite’s modular design allows organizations to scale usage as needed. Whether you’re managing 500 assets or 50,000, MAS adapts to your growth and operational demands without disrupting existing workflows.
Operational efficiency improves with automation and real-time visibility. Organizations can shift from reactive to proactive strategies, minimizing asset failures and ensuring better use of resources.
With predictive analytics, IBM Maximo® helps you forecast asset degradation, plan interventions, and avoid unplanned outages. This leads to reduced maintenance costs, less downtime, and longer asset life cycles.
Moreover, AI and analytics drive smarter decisions. By combining Watson Studio, IoT data, and historical records, IBM Maximo® enables enterprises to continuously improve asset strategies and outcomes optimize across business units.
Deployment Options for IBM Maximo® MAS
IBM Maximo® Application Suite offers flexible deployment to suit different IT strategies. Organizations can host MAS on IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS, or on-premise servers.
MAS also supports hybrid deployments, combining cloud and local infrastructure with shared administrative controls. This allows organizations to maintain control over sensitive data while benefiting from the scalability of the cloud.
The AppPoints licensing model simplifies subscription management. Instead of purchasing individual modules, users allocate AppPoints across applications based on actual usage, which decreases the total cost of ownership and simplifies budgeting.
How IBM Maximo® Application Suite Integrates with Other Systems
IBM Maximo® is designed for seamless integration with enterprise systems. Its integration framework connects with ERP systems like SAP and Oracle, as well as GIS and IoT platforms.
With support for real-time and batch processing, the platform enables bidirectional data exchange that keeps all systems updated and aligned. REST APIs and connectors make it easy to extend IBM Maximo®’s capabilities to support your organization’s broader digital ecosystem.
Security and data governance are embedded into the suite, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal IT policies, whether deployed on cloud or on-premise environments.
Who Uses IBM Maximo® Application Suite?
IBM Maximo® is used by asset-intensive industries such as utilities, transportation, oil and gas, manufacturing, and healthcare. These sectors rely on complex physical infrastructure and benefit greatly from reliability centered maintenance and operational automation.
Utilities companies use MAS for remote asset monitoring, outage prevention, and compliance tracking. Manufacturing firms adopt it for quality assurance, predictive maintenance, and visual inspection. Transportation providers leverage it to manage fleets, infrastructure, and inspections while minimizing service disruptions.
Success Story: City of Atlanta
The City of Atlanta’s Department of Enterprise Asset Management (DEAM) transformed its facilities maintenance by implementing the IBM Maximo® Application Suite as a cloud-based managed service. Managing 51 facilities across two million square feet, DEAM transitioned from a reactive to a proactive asset strategy.The city now leverages actionable asset data to improve operational efficiency, reduce downtime, and enhance citizen and worker satisfaction.
Transitioning from Traditional IBM Maximo® to MAS
Transitioning from traditional IBM Maximo® Asset Management (MAM) to IBM Maximo® Application Suite (MAS) involves a carefully structured upgrade path.
Key steps include duplicating the current MAM production database for testing, creating a customization archive, installing and configuring MAS in a Red Hat OpenShift environment, and then deploying IBM Maximo® Manage using the upgraded database.
It’s essential to validate all customizations in a test environment before moving to production to ensure continuity and minimize disruptions. The use of containerized deployments and workloads introduces new configuration practices that differ from legacy MAM setups.
One major shift in this transition is MAS’s AppPoints-based licensing model, which replaces the older license structure. Organizations purchase a pool of AppPoints that can be flexibly assigned across MAS applications like IBM Maximo® Manage, Predict, Health, and Monitor, depending on user entitlements (Base, Premium, Limited, etc.).
To support clients during migration, IBM provides extensive training resources, ranging from OpenShift admin certifications to self-paced MAS user courses, ensuring teams can upskill effectively and manage the suite post-transition with confidence.
Future of Asset Management with MAS
IBM Maximo® is setting the stage for the next generation of enterprise asset management. It incorporates digital twin technology to simulate asset behavior and lifecycle under different scenarios, helping teams make smarter capital planning decisions.
Advanced machine learning continues to refine predictive maintenance models, pushing organizations closer to zero unplanned downtime. Integration with sustainability and ESG initiatives helps businesses align with global goals while optimizing operational performance.
IBM’s roadmap includes more capabilities for edge computing, mobile-first workflows, and expanded AI support, all designed to keep asset-heavy industries agile and resilient in a digital-first economy.
Conclusion
IBM Maximo® Application Suite is the modern standard for enterprise asset management. It empowers businesses to automate asset management, reduce downtime, and predict asset failures before they happen—transforming how industries manage infrastructure, operations, and capital assets.
For organizations ready to deploy or transition to MAS, expert guidance is key. That’s where Banetti comes in.
Banetti is a trusted Enterprise Asset Management consulting firm specializing in IBM Maximo® implementations. With decades of experience, Banetti helps enterprises configure, deploy, and optimize IBM Maximo® to suit their specific industry needs. From strategy to execution, Banetti ensures a smooth transition and maximum return on your IBM Maximo® investment.
If you’re ready to modernize your operations, partner with Banetti, your dedicated guide in building smarter, more resilient asset management systems with IBM Maximo®.