IBM Maximo Application Suite

Avantages

Maximo est un outil très puissant et pourtant simple à paramétrer. S’il vous faut des modules sur mesure c’est possible et il faudra des compétences en développement.

Inconvénients

Impossible de faire du custom sans être développeur. Il serait intéressant d’avoir des modules no-code

Avantages

Ability to track and manage work orders so you understand what is happening at your facility.

Re-using and duplicating job plans takes away the tediousness of writing equipment specific maintenance procedures.

Inconvénients

Very powerful for building and tracking maintenance KPI's but can take training and experience to use to it's full potential.

Avantages

Ability to auto-select required reviewers based on the type of project

Inconvénients

Large learning curve to use it, not intuitive

Avantages

1. Highly customizable.
2. Runs in a virtual environment.
3. Made by IBM, so it'll be around for the foreseeable future.

Inconvénients

1. Very busy UI.
2. Screen-to-screen navigation is clunky (browser back button breaks)
3. The search is more complicated than it should be, nearly unusable.
4. Our company's "Quick Guide" is 45 pages long—that's saying something.
5. Need multiple IT developers and DBA's to run the software at an enterprise level.

Avantages

Maximo is crucial for companies which have equipment in the field. Combined with closed loop automations, Maximo's integration features greatly help any organization to issue work orders automatically to keep everything in shape.

Inconvénients

Like most IBM products, it is bit expensive.

Avantages

stable product, cover lots of areas which are usually required in any industry to run their operations.

Inconvénients

Expensive, Deployments are only through MDS

Avantages

Maximo is very organized and highly customizable. It excels at inventory management. It's also very easy to learn, I can teach new workers the basics of how to use it for the uses they need it for in a short amount of time.

Inconvénients

Since it is self hosted, there are times that it can be slow because of server problems or heavy use. Make sure you're running Maximo on a server that's powerful enough for your use.

Avantages

What I like the most is: traceability, functionalities, conectivity. If you feed the software with good information, it will be a powerful tool for your company. You can keep track of a lot of things in one place. Perfect for maintenance management. Everyday I learn something new about it.

Inconvénients

What I like the least would be the ease of use, interface is not very friendly for user, in my opinion. When you learn two or three things you start understanding how every module works, because it's similar, but some things don't really make sense at the beginning. And some functionalities work better from one browser to other, so I keep changing browsers (from Edge to Chrome, for example)

Avantages

Able to track, create, modify, close, resolve tickets. multiple tickets can be assigned at a time, able to link tickets to one another. Easy to use, does not require much of training. able to calculate the SLA

Inconvénients

nothing much to dislike about this product

Avantages

It's so customizable you won't have enough time to use all its capabilities. It's a really robust platform which will benefit all you company.

Inconvénients

How heavy it is sometimes for my browser, it becomes so slow it is annoying. Also managment requires lot of study and support from IBM.

Avantages

- Industry Solutions, specific for each industry.
- The product is definitely the most mature.
- Extremely flexible.
- User groups for my industry, great to share best practices

Inconvénients

- Still expensive, but it is the premium product.
- Customer support is ok.

Avantages

This tool provides ITService management ticketing tool Options with low cost. It has features at par with competitive tools, providing Incident, problem, change modules.

Inconvénients

service level reporting module can be improved

Avantages

The product is very straightforward and easy to use. With a little work and thought on the input end, the system grows itself into a very powerful tool. The gentlemen who performed my startup took time with me and reviewed what I was looking for out of the system. Then they ran a quick, mocked-up model to ensure the outcome was what I really was looking for. I was able to provide all my input data in simple Excel spreadsheets that they scrubbed and uploaded into the system, and it has been growing since. They are highly supported; I am still treated with the same attention and aggressiveness as I was when we first started. Every couple months, I look to have additional reports and queries created, and the same amount of professionalism is still shown with each request.

Inconvénients

With the way we have the system set up, we have 10 different locations. The only drawback is if we transfer an asset from one plant to another, the receiving plant can not see the asset history. We have the system set up so each plant only sees its own assets, so this way, they just have the options of choosing the asset for their work orders. This way, they are charging the labor and part to the correct assets.

Avantages

This software is ideal for companies with a lot of assets to keep track of. I use the tool to run reports on the status of changes made to our trains but I know it has the capacity to do so much more.

Inconvénients

It isn't all that user friendly but with the right teacher it is easily navigated. The software can be slow at times but then I deal with a lot of data which may be why

Avantages

Good for creating a spread sheet . Nothing more to say.

Inconvénients

Very difficult to add any other search when inside of your inventory. Has about as much intuitiveness built in to it as a rock has.

Avantages

The good and bad is the flexibility of the product. Each company implements and utilizes the software differently. But, companies who have similar issues can share solutions through the numerous User groups, like MUWG and GOMaximo.
In addition to being a great asset / maintenance management package, it is also a developmental platform so it can be configured to solve many problems and replace in-house systems.

Inconvénients

Being so flexible, there are times, especially when upgrading to a newer version, that it is difficult for IBM to duplicate issues we are having.

Avantages

The name is short. It looks good it is web based the icons are bright the drop down menus help.The customer services is great as long as you pay the fees
Not worth it other programs compete at a fraction of the cost.

Inconvénients

To complex a system for most businesses you have to have a staff dedicated just for the system. 450 page manual that never gets read who has time. Companies use it for show no for work because it takes to long to learn it and if you have a problem with it your stuck. Labor intense system others can do with petty cash funds.

Avantages

Very comprehensive for you to build asset management trees. This allows you to add all components of an asset to track maintenance and life cyle.

Inconvénients

Very very slow to add each and every asset to the tree. Gearbox, actuator, valve etc. Year of installation and any attributes you wish.

Avantages

The flexibility of the product, that can interface with anything with a .txt file generation and the possibility to easy adapt any new system, also the web services and the programming script languange

Inconvénients

Price is too high. It really is an excellent product, but the price does not allow the SMB market to use it

Avantages

SOA frame work,applications supports maintenance domain

Inconvénients

Need focus more FMEA analysis and enhance product to handle important Reliability concepts,the way SAP is coming as a single platform for enterprise giving customers to re think on having separate infrastructure for Maximo.

Avantages

Controls for change management and P to P. Integration to other systems to support full business processes. Ability to make config changes.

Inconvénients

Not user friendly for end users who are not very IT literate.
Upgrades are horrible
Licensing is expensive

Avantages

Amazing integration capabilities. In addition, the solution has many features in the box that accelerates the adoption

Inconvénients

It is difficult to use, because it has many funcionalities. Additionally, the user interface is very recharged

Avantages

Ability to capture data on Work Orders. Notes, labor, materials, purchasing, invoicing and attachments. We also utilize routes, condition monitoring, and meters.

Would like to know more about Asset Heath.

Avantages

Maximo is web-based and relatively easy to navigate. Projetech made the switch between versions as seamless as possible with such a huge gap between with very little lost work time. They are always available to answer any questions or to talk me through learning something new.

Inconvénients

Our version jump was so huge that the old and the new do not communicate well. The thing I like least about Projetech is that they are so far away. I'd like to be able to drop in and visit.

Avantages

Utilizes a planners role in the flow of design.

Inconvénients

Not as accounting friendly as we would like to see. Cost point slightly high.