Enterprise Asset Management Benchmark Study
How IBM Maximo Users Are Advancing Maintenance Maturity
In a Changing Asset Management Landscape
An exclusive look at the results of a Cohesive-sponsored study, conducted by Verdantix, an independent research and advisory firm. Decision-makers at 100 companies using IBM Maximo were interviewed about their maintenance strategies, priorities, and challenges. Find out what the organizations pulling ahead are doing differently.
Key Takeaways
The study looked at priorities, challenges, and strategies
Our benchmark study revealed that organizations using Maximo Application Suite (MAS) 8 or 9 demonstrate stronger predictive maintenance maturity and greater adoption of AI and agentic automation. Those outperforming their peers take a holistic approach to transformation.
Maintenance
39% of Maximo users apply reliability-centered or predictive maintenance strategies to critical assets, compared with only 14% of industrial firms overall.
AI
24% of Maximo users cite multiple examples of agentic AI automation for asset maintenance and performance management, compared with 14% for industrial firms overall.
Transformation
Only 19% of Maximo 8 and 9 users note integration issues as the top barrier hindering their maintenance strategy, compared to almost half of Maximo 7 users.
Key Insights
What Do These Findings Mean for Your Next Move?
How does your maintenance maturity compare to your peers?
Organizations further ahead are focusing on consolidating tech stacks and strengthening data foundations for predictive maintenance, advanced analytics and AI. Modernization creates the opportunity to progress but the platform is only a part of the story.
Where should you focus your AI investment?
Organizations making tangible progress with AI are not pursuing every possible AI application. They are prioritizing specific use cases where the path to measurable value is shortest and clearest, while building the foundations needed to scale.
Is your organization as ready as your technology?
Modernization strengthens the technology foundation, but technology alone is not enough. Leading organizations are strengthening internal alignment and data governance, investing in structured change management and building workforce capability alongside their technology.
Most importantly, the report contains advice from Verdantix and organizations that are setting the pace for mature maintenance strategies.
Colin Ellam, CEO, Cohesive
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