Cohesive optimizes the British Antarctic Survey’s polar operational readiness with IBM Maximo
Maintaining business continuity and resilience in one of the most distant and harsh environments in the world.
The Challenge
As part of a five-year, multimillion-dollar joint US-UK research program, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has sent land-based teams, ships and aircraft to Antarctica — one of the most remote regions in the world — to better understand how climate change is accelerating the Thwaites Glacier’s rapid retreat. If the glacier were to collapse, worldwide flooding would occur. In addition, the entire West Antarctica Ice Sheet could give way centuries later. A robust way to manage data remotely is mission critical.
To help ensure their continued leadership in polar exploration, BAS are steering an enterprise-wide transformation of their operational processes and systems, so they needed a system to unify asset maintenance and inventory, which users could access in remote areas with poor connectivity.
Our Solution
BAS selected the IBM® Maximo® Application, for enterprise asset management. They hired us to implement the new system. The Maximo solution met virtually all their requirements. It provides BAS with a robust integration framework that delivers multiple capabilities, including asset management; work management; supply chain logistics; analytics; planning and scheduling; health, safety and environmental tracking. A web-based interface, certified to meet maritime standards.
The Results
- IBM Maximo improves control over critical polar supplies by providing visibility into 48,500 inventory items
- IBM Maximo helpsensure preventive maintenance staysonschedule by tracking 9,790 active tasks
- IBM Maximo supports smoother, safer operations by enabling Antarctic and UK teams to share nearreal-timeoperational data
BAS saw Cohesive and the CDR tool’s ability to improve data processing and sharing in outlying regions as unparalleled. We delivered an application-agnostic, highly configurable tool designed specifically for the marine industry. The session-based data replication tool which was deployed, seamlessly and quickly synchronizes data, meaning there is minimal disruption to operations. If connectivity is lost, users can access a local version of the data. Then, when connectivity is regained, thesolution quickly replicates data from the point the link was disrupted.
