12 part series
A practitioner's deep dive into IBM Maximo Manage on MAS 9 — eleven parts covering the new MAF role-based applications, Operational Dashboard, Reliability Strategies, Inspections, Work Management, Graphical Scheduling, Maximo Mobile, embedded AI, and how to configure and administer it all.
A practitioner's map of how Maximo 7.6 EAM became Maximo Manage in MAS 9 — the move to containers on OpenShift, the Maximo Application Framework, AppPoints licensing, and why your MBOs, scripts, and database survive the journey intact.
Work Centers are removed in Maximo Manage 9.0. Key experiences moved into Maximo Application Framework role-based applications, Maximo Mobile, and Operational Dashboard surfaces. Here's what changed, where the new apps live, and how to move your users across without disruption.
The heart of Maximo Manage — a practitioner's deep dive into the work order lifecycle, job plans with the new Qualifications field and milestone tasks, preventive maintenance and routes, plus the Work Order Planning and Work Queue Manager applications added in Manage 9.
A practitioner's deep dive into Maximo Reliability Strategies — how FMEA and RCM connect failure modes to job plans and PMs, the built-in library spanning 800 asset types and 58,000 failure modes, RPN-driven actions, custom strategies, and the AI assists added in Manage 9.1.
A practitioner's deep dive into Inspections in Maximo Manage 9 — how the Inspection Forms Work Center became a Maximo Application Framework app, the refreshed Form Builder, question types and conditional logic, scoring and pass/fail, follow-up work orders and meter updates, form versioning, and offline mobile execution.
A practitioner's deep dive into Maximo Mobile for Manage 9 — why it replaced Maximo Anywhere, how its offline-first REST and sync architecture works, the Technician, Inspections, and Inventory apps, low-code app definitions in Mobile Studio, RBAC and offline security, and how to migrate off MobileFirst.
A practitioner's deep dive into the Maximo Manage 9 scheduling stack — Gantt-based Graphical Scheduling for outages and projects, Graphical Assignment for short-horizon dispatch, the crafts/crews/calendars foundation, and the AI-driven Field Service Management solution introduced in 9.0 with its Scheduling and Dispatching dashboards, extended in 9.1.
A practitioner's deep dive into asset and location management in Maximo Manage 9 — asset and location hierarchies, rotating items, Asset Configuration Manager for complex serialized assets, linear assets with GIS, and meters with condition monitoring.
A practitioner's deep dive into inventory and procurement in Maximo Manage 9 — the ITEM and INVENTORY objects, storerooms, costing, reorder processing, the PR-to-PO-to-receipt-to-invoice flow, contracts and vendors, and the role-based Issues and Transfers app that carries forward key Inventory Work Center workflows.
A practitioner's deep dive into the generative AI built directly into Maximo Manage — Work Order Intelligence (9.0), the Maximo Assistant (9.1, expanded in 9.2), and the AI Configuration application — and how it differs from the standalone Health, Monitor, Predict, and Visual Inspection suites.
The practitioner's guide to configuring and administering Maximo Manage 9 — Automation Scripts, Workflow Designer, Application Designer, Database Configuration, domains, security, Operational Dashboard, new tools like Formulas and in-MAS Application Configuration, and the admin split between MAS Suite and Manage.
