May 16th, 2012 
admin Peter Hacking, Systems Developer in the facilities management section, discusses how the University of WA was able to move away from reactive to more planned maintenance and leverage iPhones and mobile devices for tradespeople to update work status in real-time.
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May 10th, 2012 admin This white paper shows how the IBM Maximo asset and service management software solution provides highly flexible business components and agile technology architecture that leverages key web concepts, standards and technologies for compatibility with today's Web-based infrastructures.
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May 3rd, 2012 admin April 26th, 2012 admin Timothy Biernacki of Baker Energy speaks about asset management, and his approach in building an overall maintenance management strategy and philosophy. Proper usage of an asset management system can significantly maximize the utilization of both operating and IT assets, help reduce costs, and ultimately provide a solid return on assets (ROA).
April 16th, 2012 admin Join IBM 
and Severn Trent Water on 19.04.2012, 3:00 PM BST (London) to learn how Severn Trent Water cuts costs with a total asset management solution from SAP and IBM. Click Here to Register.
Severn Trent Water Limited provides high-quality drinking water to 7.4 million people and sewerage services to 8.5 million people in the UK. For Severn Trent Water, with thousands of miles of pipe, pumping stations, treatment works and buildings to repair, maintain and renew, asset management is one of the largest cost centers in the business. This functional area is the focus of a £2.45 billion, five-year project. The large capital program can be managed with greater visibility and control, enabling Severn Trent Water to deliver planned infrastructure changes and maintenance at a lower cost, with end-to-end asset management that helps to reduce the total cost of ownership of assets. Ultimately this delivers improved services to its customer base.
“Working closely with IBM Global Business Services, Severn Trent Water has deployed an integrated business solution that controls every aspect of operations, right through to finance and human resources, which helps us to achieve our business goals and move onwards to the next phase of lower cost operations.” Myron Hrycyk, Chief Information Officer, Severn Trent Water Limited.
April 12th, 2012 admin Austin Energy, headquartered in Austin, Texas, is the nation’s ninth-largest community-owned electric utility. Serving 360,000 customers and a population of more than 800,000, the company provides service within Texas for the City of Austin, Travis County and a small portion of Williamson County. As a publicly owned power company and a city department, Austin Energy powers the capital city of Texas through a diverse generation mix, including nuclear, coal, natural gas and renewable energy sources.
Seeking to improve service and reliability, Austin Energy saw the need and opportunity to transform how it delivers electricity to improve service and reliability. Austin Energy built a strong technology foundation with the ability to accommodate its current goals, future initiatives and projects as well.
Austin Energy partnered with IBM to create one of the United States’ first Intelligent Utility Networks with the ability to manage the grid to an unprecedented degree. Hundreds of thousands of energy grid assets and devices on the network are monitored and controlled centrally, creating a self-healing capability.
April 5th, 2012 admin March 29th, 2012 admin Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) is a Canadian agency which monitors sustainable farming and animal health practices and is responsible for the food safety of over 1.2 million citizens. To address modern concerns over food safety and disease control, MAFRI needed to track animals as they moved through the food chain. Innovative technology was required to actively minimize and contain the threat of animal disease outbreaks.
MAFRI deployed a livestock premises identification solution built on IBM Maximo Asset Management Software, with industry-consulting support from IBM Global Services. The solution captures province-wide data in a central tracking database. In addition it:
The Result:
By using this solution, MAFRI reduced the time required to bring the average animal disease outbreak under control by 80 percent. In fact, a recent outbreak was contained in three weeks as opposed to the earlier time of three to six months.
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March 22nd, 2012 admin Maximo Mary sat down with Analyst Ralph Rio at Pulse 2012 and discussed the current state of affairs in the asset management space. Click here to read her entire blog post.
March 19th, 2012 admin You could have one system that does your asset management, another system that does the rest and you could spend precious time and resources integrating these systems and passing the data back and forth. Or you could choose an Asset Management solution that does it all.
Great River Energy is a not-for-profit electric cooperative that generates and transmits wholesale electricity to 28 distribution cooperatives in Minesota and Wisconsin. Distributing electricity to more than 1.7 million people through 4,500 miles of transmission lines and 110,000 enterprise assets, Great River Energy depends on the IBM Tivoli® Asset Management for IT and IBM Maximo® Asset Management Software to improve service response and reduce costs while integrating operations, transmission and generation.
Green River Energy used IBM Tivoli® Software and IBM Maximo® Asset Management to increase efficiency to improve service delivery while lowering costs. IBM Maximo® provides enterprise maintenance solutions that fit globally and increase responsiveness.
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