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IBM Maximo Asset Management for government

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The goal
Total asset visibility across your agency
Faced with tight budget constraints, increased security concerns and an aging infrastructure? IBM Maximo Asset Management for government can help departments and agencies gain visibility into operations, address risk and compliance mandates, and provide higher service levels to constituents with the same or lower budget and fewer resources. Help ensure budget justification and asset accountability across virtually all asset classes including linear, facilities, fleet and IT.

The advantage
Our depth and breadth of government experience
IBM Maximo Asset Management for government is built on decades of experience in enterprise asset management, and is the leading asset and service management solution for government.
  • We have worked with governments for more than 90 years and understand the challenges of implementing an IT infrastructure to support public sector operations.
  • To help you define your technology needs, the IBM Institute for Electronic Government® briefing center was established by IBM to educate technical and non-technical government leaders about innovative examples of business on demand in the public sector. The briefing center offers leading-edge thinking and demonstrations from a number of IBM organizations including the:
    • IBM Center for the Business of Government
    • IBM Government Programs
    • IBM Global Business Services
    • IBM Government Solutions Center and IBM Research

The benefits
A more efficient way to monitor and manage assets
From water distribution and sewer collection networks, to fleet, plant, medical and life science assets, your agency can improve public services while better managing assets throughout the lifecycle. Our unified approach can help you manage service provider relationships, control risks while monitoring and managing efforts to comply with regulations, and provide a single view of assets across departments and locations. IBM Maximo Asset Management for government can help you:
  • Create a link between the services citizens expect and the performance requirements of assets.
  • Capture, in a single repository, the condition, state and performance of assets, while facilitating organization-wide visibility into control activities such as assessments, audits, inspections, prevention, detection and reporting.
  • Apply operational excellence programs, based on best practices and business process standardization so you can compare performance across sites, departments and locations.
  • Support a wide variety of services and assets, taking into account their interdependence.
  • Integrate with back-office processes, such as integrated cost management and lifecycle management, to enable greater cost efficiency.
  • Leverage mobile access to asset data via handheld devices like PDAs and mobile phones.
  • Support future and advanced functionality such as built-in computing technology with diagnostics, self-learning, asset health monitoring, automated vehicle monitoring and more.

The approach
WR-ALC leverages Maximo software
Robins Air Force base is the home of Warner Robins-Air Logistics Center (WR-ALC) and more than 60 other units that comprise a vital part of the United States Air Force war fighting team.

Business need: Create a unified system across all defense services to perform industrial plant facility and capital equipment planning and maintenance management; increase efficiency and effectiveness of operations; reduce material purchases and maintenance labor; facilitate preventive and corrective maintenance management

Solution: IBM Maximo, a strategic facility and equipment maintenance system

Benefits: Eliminated five stovepipe legacy systems; improved decision making because of better visibility and data access for users and customers; significant reduction in overall costs

The financial advantage
Shorten time to value with a proven solution
Improving asset management can help your agency or department with budgetary compliance. IBM Maximo is designed to help:
  • Lower capital investment through improved asset performance and better project management.
  • Decrease maintenance and operations cost through more proactive, timely maintenance, and reduction of asset theft and misplacement.
  • Improve mission accomplishment through higher asset availability and reliability.
  • Increase accountability through total asset visibility.

Next steps
 
Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM government specialist.



More information
A single asset and service management solution to manage government assets
Warner Robins Air Logistics Center leverages Maximo software
Launceston City Council manages diverse assets