Aries has an elegant way of connecting real-time, dynamic data gathered by numerous Applications, with assets in Maximo. This data can be GIS information, Telemetry data, service and technical bulletins, and even security-based vulnerability data.
Why is this important?
Maximo is an excellent platform to collect static data about major assets in an enterprise environment. The platform is able to serve as a maintenance workorder system and integrates inventory functionality along with a plethora of other functions that serve well to ensure assets are maintained and tracked throughout their lifecycle. Maximo is not good at capturing real-time, dynamic data about assets nor is it good at tracking and storing configuration or component level data associated with the major assets it’s managing.
Aries serves as a meta-data hub that allows the asset attributes to be stored separately from Maximo but tightly associated with the assets within Maximo. This gives organizations the ability to quickly and seamlessly add GIS attributes to their assets and to easily maintain this information throughout the asset lifecycle. The same is true for telemetry data, which is real-time and dynamic.
This prebuilt, and seamless integration reduces the implementation time associated with integrating applications used to incorporate this type of data into Maximo by orders of magnitude. It also results in a significant time reduction in the day-to-day support of maintaining these applications and there connections. This results in substantial cost savings for Aries customers.
An Enhanced User Interface (UI) for Maintenance Technicians
An additional benefit for Aries customers is the ability to replace the Maximo interface for maintenance technicians with an ArcGIS UI, an interface that is intuitive and requires little training to adopt. Aries offers maintenance workers the ability to interact with Maximo through the ArcGIS interface responding to and completing workorders through this interface and updating Maximo without ever directly accessing Maximo.
This UI provides two valuable benefits to those employing Aries. First, the adoption of Maximo by technicians is much easier and more rapid. This meaning the ROI in Maximo is realized much more quickly and at a reduced cost – technicians avoid the steep learning curve and cost associated with learning Maximo. Second, because the assets are displayed in a GIS format (2-D or 3-D), technicians are able to locate these assets more quickly and can diagnose and resolve issues more rapidly as all of the data associated with the asset can be displayed on screen (location, telemetry, and additional Maximo attributes). This means the mean-time to repair (MTR) is reduced meaning asset uptime is increased along with the productivity of the maintenance technicians.