Are skyrocketing maintenance and repair costs at your plants sending your finance department into orbit? Has an unplanned outage caused by failing equipment or some other asset hurt your bottom line? Are you feeling the financial pinch of big price increases in energy and raw materials and mandates for health/safety/environment regulatory compliance?
Asset management and product lifecycle management
Many manufacturers are already using IBM product lifecycle management technology to design products, test them and automate their production. But when you integrate solutions such as IBM Maximo® Asset Management with that technology, you can increase the manufacturing availability of your production equipment while reducing overall plant MRO costs through better service and maintenance programs.
IBM integrated enterprise asset management and product lifecycle management components
With IBM integrated enterprise asset management and product lifecycle products, you can not only improve production efficiencies and manage MRO expenditures but also offer direct customer service after sales:
- IBM Maximo Asset Management helps you develop comprehensive programs for preventive, predictive, routine and unplanned maintenance.
- Collaborative innovation with ENOVIA is the primary link between product life cycle management and enterprise asset management.
- Digital manufacturing and production with DELMIA uses advanced 3D systems to define, plan, create, monitor and control all production processes virtually, from early process planning and assembly simulation to final testing, quality assurance, packaging and shipping.
- Lifelike Experience with 3DVIA associates technical documentation directly with the digital manufacturing process.
- IBM service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the application framework for integrating IBM product life cycle management and enterprise asset management.
