Maximo Asset Management

How To Implement IBM^®Maximo Asset Management

Deploying IBM Maximo can be complex, even daunting. We have one, straightforward rule in implementation: meet your Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) goals as quickly – and cost-effectively – as possible.

The process to implement big systems, whether you’re a maintenance specialist, a software developer or a reliability engineer, is well-understood: figure out the requirements, design a solution, build it and test it. Rinse and repeat.

Our implementation methodology is practical and based on the well-known 80/20 rule. We’ve found that 20% of Maximo’s features can give our clients 80% of what they need. (In fact, we created the Banetti SmartStart^®service based on that principle.)

Banetti employs world-renowned experts in Maximo and EAM, in key industries and in

software systems implementation.

All of this is necessary, but not sufficient.

At each stage of the process, we provide you options–and tradeoffs–to meet your business requirements. In the end, your business is unique and our job is to ensure that you are not forced into a “one-size-fits-all” system.

Whether you’re deploying EAM for the first time, upgrading to a new version of Maximo, changing vendors or trying to sweat your assets, wringing every dollar of performance out of your current EAM system, Banetti can help.

Assess

Five Key Steps

Business Goals Definition

Processes & Practices Definition

Requirements-gathering Workshops

Enterprise Integration Analysis

Reporting/BI/KPI Needs Analysis

Delivering the right solution begins with a detailed understanding of the challenges for asset management in your own business. First, we'll ask you to form a core team to make decisions as we work through all the issues. Many times, the core team is comprised of yourself, your executive sponsor (e.g. the VP of Operations or Plant Manager), key team members (e.g. maintenance planner), and IT (e.g. CIO or Director of Enterprise Software). A Banetti engagement manager walks your core team through the process of identifying what you do, when you do it, why you do it, and what is not getting done effectively today. This walk through to assess where you are is conducted as a series of workshops and provides the basis for business requirements as well systems and workflow specifications. The deliverable from this phase is a document defining the best-fit asset management solution for your enterprise.

Define & Design

Five Key Steps

To-Be Process Definition

Requirements Defined

Requirements-to-Process Mapping

Report/KPI List Defined

Specifications Created

The technical specification for the Maximo system is dependent on the business-based requirements that you have in your company. The Banetti engagement manager will work with your core team to map your requirements to the business processes and workflows in your company. By engaging all stakeholders at your company with you, we will ensure a holistic approach to your EAM system that works end-to-end. That is, your Enterprise Asset Management system must address all company departments' needs, must integrate with current enterprise systems and must be designed with the future plans of the organization in mind. While there are often many ways to deploy technology, there may be only one "ideal approach," that addresses the holistic perspective. Together, your core team and Banetti will make sure that the definition of problems to be resolved by our Maximo EAM system is holistic and drives the right technical approach.

Build & Test

Five Key Steps

Business Goals Definition

Processes & Practices Definition

Requirements Gathering Workshops

Enterprise Integration Analysis

Reporting/BI/KPI Needs Analysis

With a client-approved system specification in hand that holistically addresses your organization's business requirements, the Banetti engagement manager oversees the process to build & test your technology solution. As with any software configuration and development project, our solutions architect provides oversight and guidance to ensure that the final build meets the technical and business requirements we have agreed to. During the build, you will be involved in reviews and approvals as well as any changes that might come up. Building and configuring Maximo is a lot like refurbishing a home: you plan for and address as many requirements as you can. But when you open up the walls, sometimes things aren't as straightforward as you'd hoped and you may need to change plans a bit. Banetti will ensure that you are on-board for each step of the build process and approve those changes: you are always in control.

Train

Five Key Steps

Client-specific Changes Defined

Training Materials Finalized

Train-the-Trainer

End-User Training Delivered

Self-Service Training Activated

The Banetti engagement manager will work with you and the core team (as well as a selected set of internal users) during a User Acceptance Testing (UAT) cycle for systems acceptance and approval. That includes training to use the system as well as training to maintain the system. If you are deploying Maximo to your own private cloud, we will ensure that your system meets all the SLAs we've agreed to and in most cases, training in this area is about how to get what you need from us; if you are deploying Maximo internally, we will "train-the-trainer" to ensure you have on-site experts to assist on a day-to-day basis and will create custom reports or views as appropriate. Based on your needs, we can also train end-users in a classroom format. Whether or not we do on-site training for you, we will certainly want to provide you with self-service training materials and even on-line training, if appropriate.

Deploy

Five Key Steps

Security configured

Users Provisioned

Legacy Data Migrated

Integrations Activated

Go-Live

With an accepted system in place and users trained, the final steps leading up to Go-Live are carried out. All users are provisioned with the appropriate roles and security rights, any lagging legacy data is migrated, and integrations with other backend systems are activated. The day you deploy is a smooth process with the Banetti support team on-the-ground providing one-on-one support to users and administrators throughout the process. Of course, deployment with SmartStart, on your own private cloud, will be seamless because we will personally ensure that Maximo is up-and-running on time and that it meets all SLAs both at Go-Live and after.

Report

Five Key Steps

KPI Dashboards Deployed

System Usage Statistics

Data Quality Statistics

Daily Reports Delivered

Reports Analyzed

Reporting and analytics are immediately available to meet both your daily operational needs and to validate system utilization. If people are not using your EAM system or misusing the system, we target the problem and resolve it as close to Go-Live as possible. By ensuring that your Maximo system is used fully and properly, we can prevent the introduction of "bad habits" and reinforce best practices. We have found, over the years, that if we leverage the analytics and get your users working smoothly on our Maximo system in the first few weeks, then EAM becomes part of your company's workflow from then on.

In addition, Banetti will provide you with a critical review of the key reports, to highlight areas where a small tweak or change could provide you with improvements to the system or the workflows. We will also capture feature requests as they arise for future updates to the system and, based on actual usage in the first week after Go-Live, we will recommend additional reporting and monitoring options based on the way your system is being used.

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