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IoT Keynote at InterConnect 2017

On Monday, March 20, Harriet Green, General Manager, IBM Watson Internet of Things, Cognitive Engagement and Education, kicked off the IoT: Genius of Things keynote at InterConnect 2017. Harriet was super inspirational and talked passionately about how the IoT movement is changing the way we live, work and interact with the world around us. She is no longer promoting the technology itself, but the stories of business outcomes.

 “I believe all of us here are part of something quite rare and quite historic…”

Harriet believes we are all participants in a technology trend that is bringing the physical and digital world closer together. This movement will rival the Internet in its impact! And this movement is in a period of acceleration. Today will go down in history as the time when IoT hype gave way to reality.

Harriet has ample evidence to support this claim – IBM’s IoT clients have increased by 50% in the last 8 months, adopting IoT via platforms and applications as part of their own digital transformation. Each one has a compelling story to tell – one of overcoming business challenges, transformation, and outcomes. Outcomes such as increased efficiency, enhanced operations, and better customer experiences. 

Case Studies

One example is Dow Chemical who has increased its facility use by 20% - saving $4M a year.

Another is Siemens Building Technologies who is capturing data from 70,000 connected buildings to spot energy usage and equipment problems in advance to save millions of dollars and reduce carbon emissions.

Walmart is also piloting an IoT solution. They are using Blockchain to track goods and produce through its global supply chain to increase the transparency of all operations, and ensure the food on your table is safe to eat.

The Ecosystem

Since the beginning, IBM has believed in only one way to fulfil IoT potential – by working together. When you combine Watson with IoT data, the platform, the security and the growing ecosystem of clients, technology providers, and industry experts, extraordinary things become possible. It takes an open, integrated and collaborative ecosystem to solve problems and advance technology.

Watson IoT HQ

Last month, IBM opened its Watson IoT Headquarters in Munich. With a $200M investment, it is home to more than 1000 of IBM’s brightest, and is a place where clients and partners can collaborate to advance science and outcomes.

Why is IBM at epicenter of revolution?

Open Platform – The Portfolio is flexible – access in the way that best suits your business, SaaS or On Premise.

IBM’s leadership in Security – IoT poses real security challenges, complexity of systems and sharing of information requires a deep understanding of the vulnerabilities and threats. IBM ensures IoT is secure as it is transformative. Watson for Cyber Security.

Watson - Cognitive computing platform – it understands, it reasons, and it interacts with humans naturally to augment human intelligence and capabilities.

IoT Sensor Case Study - SNCF

Next up, Benoît Tiers guides us through SNCF’s digital transformation. SNCF, the French national railway, transports 5M passengers a day – the same as half the airline traffic in the world!

They have thousands of sensors across their rail network sending 10s of thousands of data points to the cloud in real time. Watson IoT and predictive maintenance is driving train efficiencies - leading to better customer satisfaction. Damage to overhead lines is one of the major causes of SNCF’s train delays. With sensors measuring the tension of overhead lines, they can predict breakdowns before they occur. They also use sensors to monitor track temperature to keep trains at optimum speeds ensuring passenger safety. Another safety critical sensor makes sure train doors open and close on time.

Globally, the sensors on SNCF’s trains relay 70K data per train to engineers to be put to use. Maintenance is one of the biggest cost items for SNCF and more components mean more repairs. The IoT is helping to revolutionize the maintenance of rolling stock to make the best possible use of assets and organize workflows.  When trains arrive at maintenance centers, technicians and materials are ready and waiting to jump in for a fast and efficient repair. This is a priority for SNCF right now.

New Partnerships Drive Transformation

In one industry after another, IoT drives new partnerships, and those partnerships drive transformation. Let’s take just one example: Automotive.

Nearly every aspect of the way cars are designed, made and experienced by consumers is changing; from digital supply chains made more transparent with Blockchain to connected cars to personalized driving experiences.

IBM are working with General Motors to embed cognitive services into their OnStar service. More than 2M vehicles will use Watson to analyze data to learn a driver’s habits, to understand their needs, and to deliver targeted offers, from parking options to gas stations to local restaurants. It’s a service that will transform the car into a commerce platform.

Len Wozniak explained for 100 years GM just made cars. They can’t rely on that anymore. The driver has been central to use cases, but no longer. There are 30K+ parts in a car now! This introduces huge variation into the business and with over 200,000 employees, GM can’t rely on getting the key people in a room together to work through a set of problems. They needed to take the knowledge out of people’s heads and embed it in their data. With true traceable system engineering tools, GM has built a global configuration to give people access to data easily and quickly. This is “perceived simplicity”. 

Digital Twins and Watson IoT

Another powerful example of IoT transformation can be found in the work IBM are doing with digital twins – the idea that through IoT data, you can virtually represent the environment for how a thing is designed, built and operated. Al Coit shared how Raytheon is using concept of digital twins to change their products and embrace the rate of change. 

Connected Operations

Sanjay Bramahwar, IBM, states businesses are focused on 3 key imperatives:

How to maximize the uptime and reliability in the most cost effective way.

Improve organisations operational performance and drive more transparency in the value chain.

Organisational transformation – help companies differentiate and bring about new services and new revenue.

IBM have been investing heavily in the Watson IoT Portfolio Applications. The products in bold have been updated over the last 6 months. Maximo updates include:

Asset Health Insights - Leverages real-time information and analytics using the IBM Watson IoT Platform, along with other information sources such as current and historical weather to enable reliability engineers and maintenance supervisors to make better decisions. 

Field Service Management – End to end IoT solution combined with weather data and fully integrated with Maximo.  Ability to optimally plan and dispatch field resources and their properly stocked vehicles to a geographic location in a timely manner in order to deliver against their service commitments.

Maximo with Watson Analytics – Out of the box data sets, able to create insights related to ranking of the data quality, predictive analytics or visual dashboards. New user interface – fresh and intuitive way to take action on the data.

Maximo Case Study - Safety First at Enbridge Gas 

This was by far my favorite story during the keynote. Edward Phagoo, IT Manager, delivered a witty and genuine account of Enbridge Gas’ digital transformation. 

“Critical and essential but not sexy!”

Enbridge Gas have been using Maximo since 2013 to maximize uptime and reliability in the most cost effective way to help serve customers better through operational excellence and safety. But their journey has been slow. “What is IoT? Why should we do it?” were frequent questions asked by the business. Having been a stable organization for a long time, evolution was very hard. In order to take advantage of IoT and get into that world, Enbridge had to start with the past and go back to basics. 

It’s all about safety for Enbridge – if it has been working, why change it? Canada needs safe, reliable gas in the cold winter and Enbridge have been making it happen for 165 years now. Gas Utilities have to take care of the risk. The focus until now has been putting the pipe in the ground. However their incumbent solution was 13 year old, bespoke and heavily customized. They had a lot of unstructured data that was difficult to access, and they had lots of products, not just an IBM footprint. Their goal was an integrated solution out of the box. They implemented Maximo 7.6.0.1 and brought data into Maximo so the users can start using it for analytics. They are also prototyping PMQ for making decisions on facts not on the gut. As customers are starting to have more choice and other forms of energy and renewables becoming cheaper - analytics is helping Enbridge to focus on the customer experience for the first time ever. 

The future looks wide and open for Enbridge! Good luck guys. 

Don’t let this moment pass you by - go online, try the Watson IoT platform, contact your IBM Business Partner. The excitement for IoT is emanating from the offices of C-Level executives across all industries!

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Join BPD Zenith at Stand 888 at InterConnect 2017

Only BPD Zenith gives asset intensive industries – from facilities management to oil and gas – everything they need to improve operational efficiencies and reduce maintenance costs by up to 20%. If you are looking for superior Maximo advice, come and see us at booth 888 (triple fortune!)

Empower your mobile workforce with Maximo Anywhere – Discover how many of the apps can be used with little configuration and allow your remote teams to be able to function immediately in the field.

Listen to your critical assets with IoT Smart Sensors –  Come and have a play with the latest sensor technology and create automatic work orders in Maximo when action limits such as temperature and vibration are breached.

Make better, data-driven decisions with BPD’s Cognos BI Pack – Delve into superior Strategic Reporting with our 5 prebuilt dashboards and make informed decisions for your business.

Take our Cloud cost saving challenge – Learn how much your maintenance department could save with a switch to the Cloud.

Do you know your mean time to repair? – We are confident that our systems can save you money and hours of production downtime.

13 of our global staff will be attending InterConnect and are looking forward to meeting you at the BPD Zenith booth #888. Email us to make the most of your time at InterConnect.

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Don’t have an Oscars moment! Work smarter with BPD Zenith and IBM Maximo Asset Management.

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Empower your mobile workforce with IBM Maximo Anywhere

With nearly 7 billion phones, tablets and PCs in use in the world by the end of 2016 – mobile technology will continue to change the way we live, work and play (Gartner, 2017). By 2020, 50% of the workforce will be made up of the Millennial generation (PwC). This generation has grown up using smartphones as their main communication tool and enterprises will need to accommodate the use of mobile technology by these new workers. In fact, Gartner studies show that 92% of organizations believe not only that adopting mobile apps will give them a competitive edge, but also that the failure to adopt such apps will put them at a competitive disadvantage. To that end – what efficiencies could your organization stand to gain from implementing a mobile strategy?

Business Leaders have identified Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) as a key opportunity for improving operational efficiency and the bottom line. With a mobile app that facilitates EAM, this means greater up-time for assets, more efficient work order processing and lower data entry errors. Users are simply able to do their work from any location.

IBM® Maximo® Anywhere is a next generation single-vendor solution that provides immediate access to your Maximo processes. It allows technicians to plan their work order routes more efficiently and enter data into the app instantly from most mobile devices. With this level of connectivity, organizations reduce costs resulting from miscommunication and double handling of data.

Maximo Anywhere works in both disconnected and connected modes. The core system is updated in real-time when a data or Wi-Fi connection is available. This is important for organizations with remote or dispersed assets located far from a stable Internet connection. A mobile technician needs to visit equipment to perform tasks (repair, monitoring, maintenance) and needs to capture and report details for both preventative maintenance, contract/warranty compliance or regulatory requirements at the point of execution.

Our approach is focused on your business process and requirements. The Maximo Anywhere set of applications are designed specifically for roles within your organization, and are well suited to be used within your operating environment. Many of the applications can be used with little configuration and allow your remote EAM teams to be able to function immediately in the field. An example of this is one of our clients who recently implemented the Maximo Anywhere Incident Reporter application. We did very little configuration to the application provided by IBM, and were able to install the mobile application on the corporate mobile devices for over 1000 end users in a very short time frame. This allowed the reporting of incidents and hazards in the field and offices to occur in near real-time. Notifications to senior management of serious incidents was immediate, and notification of environmental issues were available to the appropriate EHS management staff on a real-time basis. This is just one example of the immediate benefits that can be gained from implementing a set of mobile applications linked directly to your EAM system.

If your implementation partner understands your maintenance or safety department (like BPD Zenith does), mobility can be a major competitive advantage for your organization.

BPD Zenith will be demonstrating its mobile capabilities at IBM InterConnect 2017 on stand #888 in the Watson IoT zone (next to the Business Partner cafe). We look forward to seeing you there!

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The Importance of MUGs (Maximo User Groups)

So often when working at various companies that use Maximo, I have heard “Why should we bother sending anyone to a Maximo User Group Meeting?” or, “What can we possibly gain from going to that Maximo User Group Meeting?” or, “What’s in it for me?” 

This post will describe the incredible benefits of becoming part of the larger Maximo Community, giving to that community, and gaining knowledge from that community.

Get to Know the Community

Firstly, if you are working at a company that uses Maximo, I always assume that you know there is a large network of user groups (over 270 at last count) out there for every flavor of Maximo you can imagine. There are regional and national Maximo User Groups (on every continent in the planet), there are Industry Specific Maximo User groups and there is the grand-daddy of them all, the IBM InterConnect Conference which brings together hundreds if not thousands of like minded Maximo professionals. These user groups are most often sponsored by an IBM Maximo Business Partner, several Partners or IBM themselves. IBM participates in most if not all user group meetings.

Don’t be put off by the Sponsors

Sponsors provide a few very important things to the Maximo User Community. Probably the most important of which is the funding for the group to hold the meeting. Without sponsorship, the meetings would have to held in someone’s place of business, a home, or a basement somewhere in the suburbs. With sponsorship, the venues, meals, entertainment, brochures, posters, audio visual equipment etc. are all possible. Sponsors also attend the meetings to provide answers to the difficult questions, show you what great things they can add to the Maximo mix, and give away door prizes. Seriously though, it is a chance for you (the Maximo User) to speak to Maximo Experts in a non-threatening, non-sales environment.

Top 5 Reasons to go to a Maximo User Group Meeting

The number one reason to attend any MUG Meeting is the chance to meet other users from other companies that also use Maximo. Don’t just sit at a table with other people from your own company. Participate during the networking sessions and group sessions. Talk to the end-user presenters about their presentations. Find out how they did certain things in Maximo. How did they tackle a certain problem that is your main pain point? Just by talking with other users from other companies, you will get a relationship with them, you can email them after the conference, you can even pay them a site visit. Most people are very proud of their achievements with Maximo and are happy to share with you.

The second reason to attend a MUG is to learn something that you can immediately bring back to your company to solve an issue or a clever idea that you had not yet thought of. While at various MUGs I have learned for example how to automatically email a purchase order to a vendor when the PO is approved using an automation script in Maximo. I have also learned how a company configured and used the Operator Log application in Maximo HSE and was immediately able to implement the same solution into our Maximo. Over the years, the knowledge gained has more than justified the costs of attending.

The third reason to attend is to get your own name and the name of your company out there. You can raise the profile of your organization in the Maximo Community in several ways; don’t be afraid to be a presenter at a user group meeting. None of the presenters are professional speakers (sometimes it is very apparent), but they are giving you knowledge, sharing their Maximo stories, and giving to the community. Once you have done one presentation at a MUG, doing the next one only gets easier and easier. For myself, I have sometimes given two presentations at a single user group meeting. I have also given the same presentation at three different conferences! The second way to raise your profile is to volunteer to be on the MUG steering committee. Organizing conferences and user group meetings takes a bit of work and helping getting things organized can be very rewarding.

The fourth reason to attend a MUG is to get out of your normal routine. Getting out of the office to attend a conference is very rewarding intellectually and spiritually. It is great to get away form the Maintenance Schedules, Outage Planning, Support Backlog for a single day. Shake things up a bit, go meet new people, listen to some great Maximo war stories, talk to some experts; and come back to the office revitalized. Companies should know that sending employees to conferences is a great way of educating and improving the morale of their staff.

The fifth key reason to attend a MUG Meeting or the grand-daddy of them all (IBM InterConnect) is to see a different part of the country and surprisingly learn that no matter the industry, no matter the version, the Maximo journey of every customer echoes your own journey. They all struggle with technical upgrades. “Customization” is a bad word in most companies and they are all venturing to take advantage of the huge investment IBM has made to continuously improve the product. IBM usually does at least one presentation at each user group meeting. They will tell you what’s coming in the next year for Maximo (called the product roadmap), they will demonstrate the latest and greatest analytics, and they will quite often provide free certification testing at some user group meetings. I have learned over the years from IBM presentations, how their support model works, what the plans are for analytics, when certain versions of Maximo go out of support, and who to call with specific Maximo questions. Through my participation in user groups I have been invited to be a part of special focus groups with IBM, BETA testing new features and having input into the future releases of certain industry solutions.

Some Useful Links

Use this link to find a local Maximo User Group. When you get there select the Product Line of “Tivoli”, then select you region before you click the Search Button.

This link will provide you a list of many of the upcoming Maximo User Group meetings. Thanks to Kim Waterman from P2 Insight for providing this information.

About the Author:

Stephen Hume is a seasoned Maximo Consultant working for BPD Zenith (Canada), recently retired from the role of President for the Canadian Maximo User Group (CanMUG). He has done presentations at the following user group meetings. Facility Management Maximo User Group, Maximo Utility Working Group, Western Canada Maximo User Group, Canadian Maximo User Group, IBM Pulse, IBM InterConnect.

His presentation topics have included; Upgrade Lessons Learned; Health Safety and Environment in Maximo; Mobile Incident Reporting using Maximo Anywhere; How to Prepare for and Survive an IBM Audit; Throw Away the Log Books with Maximo Operator Logs.

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The 5 Asset Management Sessions You Can’t Miss at InterConnect 2017!

In just a few more weeks, starting March 19, InterConnect 2017 will be upon us. For those of you who are not familiar with InterConnect, it is IBM’s premiere cloud conference — an event jam-packed with thousands of exciting sessions, labs, and meetings. This year, Asset Management features over 80 breakout sessions, 6 Maximo Industry User Groups, 14 Hands-on labs, 15 engagement Theater sessions, 4 Customer Feedback Roundtables, and 6 Meet the Expert Sessions.  As you make your plans, allow us to simplify your decision on which sessions you can’t miss, with the help of our Maximo cheat sheet.

1. Keynote: Watson IoT Genius of Things – Harriet Green. Monday, 20, 13:00 – 14:45

Join the Watson IoT keynote featuring Harriet Green, the General Manager of Watson Internet of Things, Cognitive Engagement, and Education at IBM.

We are in the process of transforming our relationship with the world around us, both personally and professionally. We are bringing the physical and digital worlds closer together to change the way we live and work.

IBM clients are no longer in need of persuasion about the power of IoT. What they need is guidance: practical advice on how to capitalize on this opportunity, and how to manage the change that IoT is introducing, both inside and outside of their organization.

2. Session 2898A – Maximo Roadmap: Planning Your Future with Maximo Asset Management. Tuesday, 21, 13:30 – 14:15

This session will provide insight into the strategic direction of IBM Maximo. Attendees will learn about the newly released and upcoming year’s deliverables across the portfolio, including investments in new innovation and technology advancements (IoT and weather), extending and enhancing core capabilities, expanding beyond EAM, and our continued focus on industry solutions. You’ll also hear about the Maximo product roadmap, SaaS offerings and release lifecycle updates.

3. Session 1215A – Airport MUG: Driving Strategic Transformation at Sydney Airport with IBM Maximo in the Cloud. Sunday 19, 14:30 – 15:15

Join BPD at the Airport Maximo User Group as we discuss the why Cloud was chosen to meet the Airport’s evolving business needs and future FM growth, and how the solution is:

Improving operational efficiencies;

Achieving passenger experience;

Providing quality data for informed decision making.

Highlights include significant increases in asset availability thanks to a 50% reduction in aerobridge breakdowns and 18% reduction in HVAC breakdowns.

4. Session 1936A: Enterprise integration with Maximo: From ERP to IoT. Tuesday 21, 14:30 – 15:15

The work at CNRL is a great success story. Richard Dyson will present with BPD on how CNRL successfully implemented Maximo across 3000 users in maintenance and operations including integration to JDE financials.

IBM joins the second part of the session to look at how operators like CNRL can best leverage the IoT in an industrial environment that is already relatively highly instrumented. A practical safety related use case will be covered and will summarize the wide range of opportunities emerging to use this technology to support worker safety, process safety and environmental management.

5. Concourse Theatre Session 2107: Thinking Together: Designing the new Maximo User Experience. Monday, 20, 17:30 – 17:50

A combination of demographic shifts and rapid changes taking place in technology adoption means that the Maximo experience must meet the demands of the modern user. Learn how IBM is preempting this shift by rethinking the Maximo experience with the user as our key stakeholder. Hear from offering management, design, development and business partners about why the new experience matters, and how we are working with customers to deliver it. Learn more about the work centers and apps we are delivering with the new user experience, and find out how you can get involved in this exciting new era for Maximo product development.

These are just a few highlights of the many exciting sessions at the conference. You can’t afford to miss this world-class opportunity to train, network, and learn about the future of cloud and IoT.

For those of you attending Interconnect this year, Pam Denny has shared a great Guide on IBM’s developerWorks site. The PDF breaks out of all the Maximo/Asset Management related topics at InterConnect 2017. If you’re still not signed up, be sure to register today!

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IBM InterConnect Asset Management Journey Map

For those of you attending IBM InterConnect 2017 this year, Pam Denny from IBM has shared a PDF on IBM's developerWorks site. The guide breaks out of all the Maximo/Asset Management related topics at InterConnect 2017.

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Driving a more predictable airport operation through real-time asset data

It goes without saying that the airport operation is a complex beast, comprising many different cogs all trying to move in the same direction and work in unison with one another. It is a balancing act, where multiple different stakeholders are focused on delivering a consistent service to passengers and airlines.

There are so many different components which need to come together to ensure aircraft turn around on time and passengers are moved throughout the terminal smoothly. Many things can happen, often seemingly outside your control!

For example, a major breakdown of an aerobridge, baggage system, HVAC system, elevators, lifts, or even something as simple as a security door, can have a massive impact. It is also fair to say that up until recently there has been no real method of confidently preventing or predicting breakdowns of key physical infrastructure.

For some time now, airport operators have leveraged real-time data to help provide situational awareness across a number of areas. From passenger flow measurement technologies, flight tracking information, passenger demand forecasting, pre-departure sequencing, ACDM and so on.

However as an operation which is so reliant upon its infrastructure, wouldn't it be great if real time data on the condition of key asseys could be harnessed more effectively? A broken baggage or HVAC system can be a major headache for a COO and there have been similar recent examples at major airports in the UK and Australia recently. In both cases there was a significant impact to the passenger - the broken baggage system caused widespread chaos whilst the HVAC system failure on one of the city's hottest summer days in Australia created serious HSE implications for passengers young and old.

Needless to say both examples would have cost the operator a substantial amount of lost revenue and severely dented the reputation of the airport. But could they have been prevented by knowing about a potential failure before it happens?

Up until now it is understandable why airports have been unable to do this, as the technology didn't exist! It is only really at the early stages of being looked at in earnest, let alone implemented. There are a few who have invested but adoption is still in its infancy.

The IoT is helping to deliver deeper insights into an organisations assets and when paired with the capabilities of cognitive computing, it is providing a near complete picture of the physical world. In an airports case, the physical world means aerobridges, baggage handling systems, vehicles, HVAC, doors, escalators, elevators etc... all of which are relied upon to ensure a smooth operation.

Interested to hear from those who might already be working with IoT and using real-time data to monitor the health of key assets within the airport environment.

What is your experience?

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Cognitive and cloud are not separate phenomena. They are two sides of the same coin.

Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO, IBM 

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Richard Dyson from CNRL will present together with BPD and IBM on how CNRL successfully implemented Maximo across 3000 users in maintenance and operations including integration to JDE financials. The second part of the session will look at what the future will hold from an IoT perspective.

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The presentation will discuss the drivers for requirements, why MaxiCloud for Airports was chosen, and how the solution is improving efficiencies, achieving passenger experience, and providing quality data for informed decision making.

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Airport MUG: Driving Strategic Transformation at Sydney Airport with IBM Maximo in the Cloud

Sunday, 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM | South Pacific A | Session ID: 1215A

Sydney Airport faces many challenges in uncertain times. To meet evolving business needs, they partnered with BPD Zenith and UnitiFM to implement MaxiCloud for Airports, a managed facilities management solution powered by IBM Maximo. This agile, cloud-based solution enhances visibility and control of each area's maintenance data. With call center integration for incoming reactive work, the solution can gather real-time data to enhance overall efficiency of maintenance teams. Integrated reporting provides management with financial, operational and service insights. Results include real reductions in asset downtime and increased passenger satisfaction. The discussion will cover drivers, requirements, benefits and more.

Manufacturing MUG: Grupo Bimbo Global Manufacturing's Fourteen-Year Journey with IBM Maximo

Sunday, 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | South Pacific J | Session ID: 6876A

Grupo Bimbo is ranked as the largest bakery in the world, with more than 10,000 bakery products. We started our first implementation of Maximo in 2003, and moved from a CMMS to EAM strategy, emphasizing budget, cost and how to optimize our maintenance organization and practices leveraging industry knowledge and best practices. This session will provide an overview of our journey and successes with IBM Maximo.

Maximo Anywhere for Health and Safety at ENMAX

Monday, 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | Islander A | Session ID: 1141A

ENMAX has recently implemented IBM Maximo for Health, Safety and Environment applications throughout the entire organization to improve the tracking and resolution of safety and environmental events. Critical to this successful implementation was the use of Maximo Anywhere and the configuration and implementation of the Mobile Incident Reporting app to support two thousand end users.

Enterprise Integration with IBM Maximo: From ERP to IoT

Tuesday, 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM | Tradewinds B | Session ID: 1936A

The first part of this session will look at how Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) successfully implemented Maximo across 3,000 users in maintenance and operations, including integration to JDE financials. The second part of the session will look at integration from an IoT perspective, and present a practical example of how sensor input can be used to drive action in Maximo as part of an end-to-end business process. 

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5 Things We Love About IBM InterConnect

One of our favorite times of the year is coming up – the week where IBM InterConnect comes to Las Vegas! Formerly known as Pulse, InterConnect merges 3 uber events over March 19-23, 2017. With more than 25,000 industry leaders expected, it is one of the best events to learn, discover, network and have some fun! It also happens to be IBM’s premier event for #Maximo. So, who is joining us? Here are five of our favorite things about IBM InterConnect:`

1) Real-life Maximo stories

InterConnect has over 40 Maximo customer sessions, 6 Maximo user groups, and endless opportunities to hear from your peers. Whatever your Maximo challenges and aspirations, InterConnect has you covered. You will leave with insights, skills and best practices to move your business forward and enhance your Maximo performance.

2) The IoT exhibition floor

This year’s exhibition concourse features 200+ exhibitors and Business Partners all showcasing tangible, real-life, hands-on examples of the power of IoT to drive innovation in industry and technology. We can’t wait to share our smart capability and Maximo expertise. Think of all the gizmos and gadgets…

3) Networking

With almost 25,000 attendees, there are technical professionals from around the world to meet and greet. This includes Business Partners, clients, distinguished guests, brand evangelists, and (of course) IBM executives. Having everyone under the same roof is quite the opportunity for doing business.

4) Education and road maps

Build a competitive advantage with road map announcements and demonstrations. We love hearing all the latest and greatest product capability straight from the horse’s mouth! There are also certification opportunities and hands-on labs which helps keep our Maximo experts current.

5) Fun!

With Las Vegas as a destination, there are limitless options for having some R&R during the week to go with all of that hard work.  Aerosmith, Fall Out Boy and Sir Elton John have all performed at the mid-week special event. Who are you hoping to see this year?

BPD Zenith will be exhibiting and speaking at InterConnect 2017. We will be demonstrating our smart capability in the EXPO with Cognos Reporting Dashboards, Maximo Anywhere and Smart Sensors incorporating Bluemix. You can also see us presenting with clients, CNRL and a major Australian airport.

If you’re not already, get registered for this can’t miss event by visiting the IBM InterConnect site.

We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!