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IBM Maximo Asset Management solution for automotive
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| Get the big business picture
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Passenger cars, light or heavy trucks, or heavy equipment. No matter what your segment in the automotive industry, you need a way to track and manage all assets critical to the performance of your manufacturing plant. This method of management must support optimal performance and service levels. The IBM Maximo Asset Management solution for the automotive industry can provide a greater ability to view and manage asset performance from a corporate and business perspective throughout the enterprise.
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| Enhance capabilities
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IBM offers unique capabilities to serve the automotive industry through our depth of knowledge in product development, systems integration and operations. We have deep experience and success with the development of complex products in today’s dynamic automotive industry.
- IBM Maximo Asset Management has strong presence in the automotive industry with implementation in 7 of the 10 largest automotive companies.
- As the number one solution in terms of world market share in the field of enterprise asset and facilities management within the automobile industry, Maximo has been earning rave reviews as a proven solution for the past 20 years.
- We have more than 25 years of automotive industry experience with a client base that includes major automotive suppliers, OEMs, distributors and dealers.
- We have a worldwide network of more than 2,500 automotive experts from Stuttgart to Detroit to Tokyo.
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| Put production in high gear
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What do you do when the assembly line comes to a screeching halt? How do you keep production up while you perform routine servicing at your plant? The IBM Maximo Asset Management solution can help automotive companies:
- Manage both planned and unplanned maintenance activities for nearly all types of assets, from initial work requests and work order generation through completion and recording of actual activities.
- Match job tasks to available resources; estimate and obtain approval of costs; establish priorities; and initiate maintenance activities across the enterprise.
- Track asset detail, including location, work and cost history over time to help maximize productivity and extend asset life.
- Establish location and asset hierarchies to roll up costs across systems, subsystems and plants, and also obtain a complete understanding of asset costs.
- Optimize maintenance schedules and labor use, assigning the right person with the right skills to the right job.
- Enable customers and suppliers to discover incidents that could reduce throughput and profitability and damage trust.
- Roll up sustainable performance reporting for the corporation and stakeholders.
In addition, the IBM Maximo Asset Management solution for automotive supports:
- Concepts such as Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
- Lean and Six Sigma manufacturing principles.
- Application consolidation efforts, as well as integration with major enterprise resource planning (ERP) or manufacturing execution system (MES) solutions.
- Risk and compliance management for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, International Organization for Standards and Restriction of the Use of Hazardous Substances.
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| Meet the toughest challenges
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A large international car manufacturer based in Europe needed to improve competitiveness in a mature market, while trying to achieve cost savings of 5% and reduce downtime to prevent production losses. With the help of IBM Maximo Asset Management software, the company was able to integrate their software, achieve increased production line automation and reduce risk of production line stoppage. This solution realized significant cost savings with a payback period of less than two years.
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| Reduce costs, improve response time
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The IBM Maximo Asset Management solution can help automotive companies:
- Respond faster to customer requests, resulting in improved customer satisfaction and increased contract renewals.
- Reduce service level agreement (SLA) penalties by automatically identifying the agreement at the time of the call, prioritizing the work based on SLA impact and providing full SLA audit capability.
- Lower labor and administration costs by improving work scheduling, automating data collection and improving technician response time.
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Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM automotive specialist.
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