strEAM+ Reliability Analytics Add-On for Maximo EAM

1. IBM ISV & Developer Relations Industrial Markets
Solution Brief
MaxGrip and IBM: optimal
asset maintenance
An advanced approach to maintenance strategy
planning that helps asset-intensive organizations
ensure compliance and achieve objectives for uptime,
safety, cost and the environment
Whether in electrical utilities, deepwater oil rigs or petrochemical
Highlights: plants, mission-critical assets are incredibly complex to manage and
maintain. Trusted methodologies from the past do not offer the
• Optimizes asset maintenance plans to precision, integration or flexibility required to push assets to their limits
attain business objectives and comply
with regulatory requirements
and minimize costs while maintaining high productivity and safety.
• Prioritizes critical, high-risk assets during In fact, traditional preventive practices based on simple time or usage
maintenance planning and service
calculations make it very difficult for organizations to strike the right
• Enables asset managers to compare balance between too much and too little asset maintenance. At the
scenarios and see how decisions affect same time, more complex approaches tend to be too resource-intensive
key metrics
and time-consuming to offer maintenance teams much actual help.
• Integrates two proven platforms for
maintenance strategy planning and IBM and MaxGrip offer a better way. Bringing together proven
asset management
platforms for asset performance management (APM) and enterprise
• Helps asset-intensive organizations asset management (EAM), the combined solution can help any
develop and execute maintenance company with capital-intensive assets develop maintenance plans,
plans quickly
analyze risk and optimize maintenance activities to meet specific
goals for uptime, safety, performance and cost.
Solution Overview
The ideal asset maintenance plan generates the best possible outcomes
using the least amount of resources. Traditional approaches to solving
this challenge have often relied on the individual experience and expertise
of long-standing employees. As this generation of maintenance experts
continues to leave the workforce, asset-intensive organizations must
find new ways to develop maintenance plans, explore trade-offs and
make reliable, data-driven decisions. Risk and criticality must be
factored into the plan as well.
The solution from IBM and MaxGrip provides the tools maintenance
managers need to optimize plans in complex operations very quickly.
It delivers new levels of automation, quantitative analysis and
enterprise-level integration, giving teams a practical structure for
creating, managing and optimizing risk-centric maintenance plans.
The solution also makes it easier for decision makers to understand
how different maintenance strategies may affect cost, uptime and
other metrics over time.

2. IBM ISV & Developer Relations Industrial Markets
Solution Brief
The solution starts with strEAM+, an APM platform from •• Scenario analysis. Maintenance organizations can use
MaxGrip. This innovative software suite allows users to set this module to simulate scenarios for specific maintenance
company or site-specific objectives for safety, availability, strategies. The module helps identify short and long term
environmental outcomes, maintenance costs and other factors. availability, person-hours, spare part requirements, associated
It then employs a combination of failure analysis and event costs and residual risk for each strategy, so that competing
simulation to help maintenance teams create and evaluate scenarios can be measured and compared prior to making a
plans that find the perfect balance among financial results, final decision.
operational performance and residual risk. •• Library. This module is a collection of assets that have been
assigned a generic failure behavior (such as mean time to
Where strEAM+ differs from other available APM platforms failure (MTTF), mean time to repair (MTTR) or statistical
is that it is fully integrated within the user interface of IBM deviation) and frequently occurring maintenance measures.
Maximo® Asset Management, an industry-leading, end-to-end Operations that feature a variety of similar asset types benefit
EAM platform that asset-intensive organizations use to significantly from the library, because associated maintenance
control asset installation, operation, service, decommissioning actions for any asset are easy to retrieve and reuse. This
and many other activities. Because strEAM+ is tightly allows entire maintenance databases to be set up in a few
integrated with Maximo, it can use the same asset structures weeks instead of several months. Data in the library is based
and share data seamlessly. on industry standards, other reliability databases and more
than 15 years of field data collection by MaxGrip.
With this single solution, organizations gain everything •• Root cause analysis. This module enables maintenance
required to manage the reliability of every asset in the enterprise. managers to identify the root cause of a problem in a
There is no need to bring together disparate point solutions structured way. Its central feature is a detailed event map that
from multiple vendors and build custom integrations. Maximo allows users to assign actions, record decisions and store
and strEAM+ are already integrated and the capabilities conclusions in a central database, so this knowledge can be
they provide cover every conceivable need. retrieved instantly.
•• RBI for atmospheric storage tanks. The RBI (risk-based
The strEAM+ platform includes a variety of modules that inspection) module optimizes maintenance intervals and
can be configured to meet the needs of virtually any asset- inspection dates of storage tanks to generate substantial
intensive organization, including those in oil and gas, energy savings. This module supports all aspects of EEMUA 159
and utilities, liquid storage, petrochemicals, water, food and and is certified by Lloyd’s Register. Other RBI standards and
process industries. Some of the most powerful modules in degradation models will be integrated in the future.
the strEAM+ portfolio are:
•• Quick RCM. The Quick RCM (reliability centered These and other strEAM+ modules are seamlessly integrated
maintenance) module helps teams set asset priorities on a with IBM Maximo, enabling organizations to implement a
rapid timetable. Its structured analysis, based on documented single solution for asset management and maintenance.
objectives, is used to quickly identify which plant components
or equipment are most critical to safety, performance and the Solution Benefits
environment. This helps organizations acquire a clear picture •• Compliance. Because maintenance plans can be evaluated
of critical assets and prioritize them for RCM and other and optimized to meet specific performance metrics,
maintenance activities. asset-intensive organizations can more easily ensure that they
•• RCM. With critical assets identified, an RCM asset analysis comply with regulatory requirements for safety and the
can be conducted. For each asset and its components, failure environment.
effects are calculated with respect to established operational •• Reliability. Carefully evaluating risk and optimizing
objectives. Risk-reducing measures are created for all assets maintenance plans accordingly positions organizations to
deemed critical according to adopted risk thresholds. maximize the availability of critical equipment, and to ensure
Cost savings can be achieved by identifying and deleting operations reach the desired level of productivity.
unnecessary risk-reducing measures on noncritical assets.
This two-tier RCM approach creates a much faster path
to risk mitigation.
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3. IBM ISV & Developer Relations Industrial Markets
Solution Brief
•• Efficiency. Integrating the EAM and APM platforms, then •• IBM WebSphere® Application Server. This software
adding simulation and maintenance plan optimization, gives speeds the delivery of applications and services, enabling
organizations powerful new ways to find the ideal balance organizations to operate efficiently and reliably while
between proactive and reactive work. ensuring security and control. It reduces costs and downtime
by consolidating workloads, infrastructure and administrative
MaxGrip and IBM: a closer look tasks with enhanced web server load-balancing and failover.
Choosing a solution that is fully integrated with IBM Maximo •• IBM DB2®. This database software is optimized to deliver
means that organizations do not need to retrain maintenance industry-leading performance across multiple workloads
teams. Familiarity with the Maximo interface can be applied while lowering the cost of administration, storage,
to strEAM+ to ensure a smooth transition. Components of development and servers. Features include pureXML®,
the solution from IBM include: industry-leading deep compression, and multi-temperature
•• IBM Maximo Asset Management. This fully integrated data management.
EAM software unifies comprehensive asset lifecycle and •• IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence. This software
maintenance management on a single platform. It provides provides a wide range of functionality to help organizations
insight for all enterprise assets, including conditions and understand their own data. It helps monitor and measure
work processes, for better planning and control. how companies are performing with business intelligence
capabilities such as scorecards, dashboards, reports and
realtime monitoring.
MaxGrip and IBM Solution Architecture
Maximo EAM
strEAM+
strEAM+
server
WebSphere A.S.
DB2
The solution from IBM and MaxGrip creates an unprecedented opportunity for utilities, oil and gas producers, infrastructure owners, petrochemical
processors and other asset-intensive organizations to optimize maintenance of critical assets more quickly and precisely.
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4. MaxGrip and IBM: maximizing reliability
MaxGrip
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