AI & Innovation
For most of 2024 and 2025, the "AI in Maximo" conversation was about the AI broker, the named templates, the Maximo Assistant, and the early agentic experiments. The May 5, 2026 Think conference and the May 27, 2026 Maximo AI Service 9.1.15 release changed the conversation.
reliability
A workshop participant put it well in a recent IBM Community post: "MAS is no longer positioning Manage, Monitor, Health, Predict, and Reliability Strategies as separate products. They are increasingly presented as connected operational capabilities." That sentence captures a shift that has been building for two years and
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A field service organization runs on one question: can my technician execute the work I just dispatched, even if the truck is in a dead zone? Everything else — the schedule, the geospatial layer, the parts inventory, the safety forms — exists to make that answer yes. The Maximo Mobile + Maximo Optimizer
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Category: Maximo Manage Deep Dives Slug: automation-scripts-patterns-2026 Tags: Automation Scripts, Jython, Python, Launch Points, Integration, MAS 9.1,
MAS
Category: MAS Platform & Upgrades Slug: mas-912-may-release-updates Tags: MAS 9.1, Feature Channel, OpenShift, MAS Core, Upgrade, Release Notes, watsonx
MAS
There is a date that should be in every Maximo leader's calendar: September 30, 2026. That is the end of Extended Support for Maximo 7.6.1.x. After that, only Sustained Support (no new security patches, no new fixes) remains through 2030. If you are still running
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The Maximo Manage automation script framework is the closest thing the platform has to a "developer surface." It is also, historically, the most common source of mysterious production incidents: a script that compiles cleanly but quietly sets a related MBO to the wrong value, or holds a set
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The Maximo integration framework has always been the platform's superpower. It is also the place where most performance incidents and most "we should have built that differently" regret originates. The reason is the same now as it was in 2012: the framework has four first-class integration
Industry Spotlights
Most of the AI-in-Maximo conversation is still about demos. The case studies that matter in mid-2026 are the ones where the AI is running in production, with measurable results, in industries where the asset base is the business. This article walks through the most useful ones, what they actually did,
community
The Maximo community in 2026 is in an unusual moment. The platform is in the middle of a structural shift — from classic Maximo to MAS, from per-module licensing to AppPoints, from a scriptable extension model to an AI-augmented one — and the community is where that shift is most visible. People
AI & Innovation
The AI story in Maximo in 2026 is no longer a single feature. It is a layered architecture with three distinct surfaces, each with a different purpose, a different deployment model, and a different cost. If you are trying to figure out "what does IBM mean by AI in
EAM
Honest breakdown of the 2026 EAM landscape: SAP, Oracle/Fiix, Infor, UpKeep/MaintainX vs IBM Maximo.