Insights
Perspectives on enterprise asset management, IBM Maximo, industry trends, and operational best practices, from consultants, architects, and domain specialists.
IBM Maximo Application Suite has FedRAMP Moderate authorisation on AWS GovCloud. What the MAS announcement covers and what federal buyers should do now.
Turnaround scope discipline separates predictable outages from costly overruns. A working model for setting, freezing and holding scope.
Asset management decisions are really made in the annual capital cycle, not in the CMMS. Why APM evidence rarely arrives in time, and what to change.
Ofgem's RIIO-3 price control began on 1 April 2026 with £28.1 billion of approved investment. What changes for UK network asset management.
What the next 24 months of AI-led change actually mean for an asset-intensive operator running IBM Maximo Manage today: what is real, what is not, and what to plan for without abandoning the Manage discipline that pays the bills.
Operating notes from running utility-scale wind, solar and BESS portfolios on IBM Maximo Renewables — where it earns its licence, where it does not, and the rollout patterns that hold up.
IBM Maximo Condition Insight brings agentic AI to Asset Performance Management inside MAS. What Maximo functional teams should check before turning it on.
ISO 55001 asks for an asset management system, not a new CMMS. Why programmes confuse the two, and how to reset the narrative.
Three decisions tend to decide whether an IBM Maximo Field Service Management rollout lands or quietly fails: scope, the asset record, and the dispatch operating model. Operating notes from the field.
A maintenance strategy only matters when it changes what crews do. How to turn intent into deployable rules, data, and controls.
Enterprise asset management is converging on cloud platforms. Why that shifts risk, cost, and capability, and how asset leaders should respond.
ISO 55001 defines requirements for an asset management system. Here is what certification means for leaders, crews, and auditors in practice.
How to connect an OT historian to IBM Maximo Monitor cleanly: the OT/IT boundary as a first-class constraint, the patterns that work, and the patterns that quietly get rolled back.
When IBM Maximo Real Estate and Facilities — the IWMS capability formerly known as TRIRIGA — earns its licence over a stand-alone IWMS, and when it does not.
IBM Maximo Application Suite pays off faster when Maximo Manage is stable before you add Monitor and Predict. Readiness checks and sequencing tips.
IBM Maximo Application Suite SaaS accelerators from April 2026 cover Envizi, inventory optimization, and Renewables. What MAS teams should prepare.
How to present an asset criticality and risk score from IBM Maximo Health to an executive audience — what the number means, what it does not mean, and how to keep the conversation about decisions.
Automation scripts are powerful but accumulate fast. A practical governance framework for managing Maximo scripts without losing control.
IBM MAS releases 8.7 to 8.11 face support changes on 30 April 2026. What each version transition means and how to respond.
Asset data governance fails when it stays in policy documents. A practical framework for governing data that drives maintenance decisions.
How IBM Maximo Visual Inspection earns trust in safety-critical inspection workflows: who has to be in the room when the model is built, what the audit trail has to look like, and what fails when the model is dropped on a workflow it has never seen.
Operational technology cybersecurity belongs to asset management, not just IT. Here is why the CMMS is the starting point.
Maximo Start Centers work when they match real roles and tasks. Patterns for landing pages that speed work, not clutter dashboards.
New forecasts project the enterprise asset management market at $21.33 billion by 2035. What is driving the growth and what should asset managers pay attention to.
The EU AI Act imposes new requirements on AI systems in industrial settings. Asset managers need to act now.
Predictive maintenance projects consistently stall at proof-of-concept. The problem is not the algorithms.
How to size and cost an IBM Maximo Health rollout so it pays back against the capital plan it is meant to inform — what the readiness work actually costs, and how to scope a first programme that lands.
New ESG reporting rules demand asset-level emissions data most organizations lack. Here is what changes in practice.
Asset criticality scores often sit unused. Build a framework that changes maintenance behavior, not just registers.
An honest comparison of IBM Maximo Predict and a well-run RCM programme: where each one earns its keep, where they overlap, and how to choose between them on a specific asset class.
When IBM Maximo and MAS are the right call for a mid-sized operator, when they are not, and the deployment patterns that keep the platform proportionate to the business in 2026.
How to design IBM Maximo Monitor anomaly rules that the night shift trusts: what an anomaly actually means, how to triage it, and how to keep alerts from becoming wallpaper.
Most Maximo integration failures trace back to poor object structures. Build them correctly from the start.
Where AI and IoT in IBM Maximo and the MAS suite earn their licence in 2026, where they do not, and the integration strategy that gets value out of them without a marketing-led project.
What Maximo and MAS training and certification looks like in 2026, what it costs the rollout when an organisation skips it, and the role-based learning paths that actually move the needle on adoption.
IBM is sunsetting classic Maximo support. What the MAS migration involves and why delaying costs more.