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Achieve Greater Efficiency in Asset Management

White Paper Published By: IBM

You face key challenges–technological and organizational–in enterprise asset management. Every last vehicle and material is under your control, often in different software formats that only provide you with a partial view of your enterprise. We would like to share a white paper with you that explains how you can see your assets holistically and optimize their performance.



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ibm, ibm g&rm, ibm grm, asset management, it management, tivoli

IBM
Published:  May 12, 2008
Type:  White Paper
Length:  8 pages

Asset management solutionsTo support your business objectives
Achieve greater efficiency in asset management by
managing all your asset types on a single platform.Obtain an entirely new level
of asset awarenessEvery company knows it is crucial to care for the critical assets the company depends on, whether they include a fleet of trucks or a plant full of production equipment. To meet the specific needs of different asset types, organizations have traditionally relied on multiple software solutions. These solutions, however, provide only a partial view of an organization's total enterprise assets, making it difficult to identify areas for performance improvement. As a result, organizations don't have the asset visibility they need to achieve the operational excellence they seek.
®IBM Maximo Asset Management takes the power, performance and possibilities of asset management to an entirely new level. Built on a single software platform, Maximo Asset Management delivers a comprehensive view of all asset types - production, facilities, transportation and IT - across your enterprise. This holistic perspective allows you to see all of your assets, as well as identify all of the untapped potential within them. You gain the knowledge and control you need to closely align your organization's goals with the overall goals of your business.
Get everything you
need to optimize
your assets and
your businessConsisting of six key management modules - asset, work, service, contract, materials and procurement management - Maximo Asset Management is the only solution you need to optimize the performance of every asset. To help maximize return on assets, Maximo Asset Management enables you to develop comprehensive programs for preventive, predictive, routine and unplanned maintenance. When you use Maximo Together, these programs contribute to Asset Management to help your goals of reducing costs and maximize the performance increasing asset uptime.and lifetime value of complex assets and closely align them IBM Maximo Asset Managementwith your overall business strategy, you help: Workmanagement
. Improve return on assets.
. Decrease costs and risk.
. Increase productivity. AssetServicemanagementMAXIMOmanagementASSET. Improve asset-related decision MANAGEMENTmaking.
. Increase asset service delivery responsiveness and revenue. ProcurementContractmanagementmanagement. Facilitate regulatory compliance efforts. Materialsmanagement. Lower total cost of ownership.
Turn knowledge
into decision-
making power and
asset performance ®Maximo Asset Management effectively Work management through IBM Tivoli Service Desk and captures and analyzes your asset and Manage both planned and unplanned further align asset management goals work data. To help you optimize mainte- maintenance activities, from initial work and priorities in a manner that best nance and service initiatives throughout request and work order generation supports overall business objectives. your enterprise, advanced capabilities through completion and recording of By infusing comprehensive service in six key areas of asset management actuals. Work planners can match job level management into your asset deliver knowledge and control: tasks to available resources, estimate management practice, you can:and obtain approval of costs, estab-Asset management lish priorities and initiate maintenance . D efine service offerings to help improve All the control you need to seamlessly activities across the enterprise. organizational communication and track and manage asset and location verify that the services provided are data throughout its entire life cycle. . T racking tools enable detailed analysis those required to support the business.of resources, materials and equipment . Establish service level agreements . Track asset detail - including loca- use and costs - helping decrease (SLAs) to help increase communica-tion, work and cost history - over labor and materials costs. tion between your organization and the time to help maximize productivity and extend asset life. . G raphical assignment manager helps business units, and help align service optimize maintenance schedules and levels with business objectives.. E stablish location and asset labor use, assigning the right person . M onitor service level delivery proac-... [download for more]

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