Reliability
Visual inspection has historically been the most under-digitized part of asset maintenance. The technician walks the asset, sees the corrosion, fills out a paper form, returns to the truck, types it into Maximo. The cycle is slow, the data quality is variable, and the AI never sees the image because
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For most of its life, Maximo Mobile was a work-order execution surface. A technician opened the app, saw their assigned WOs, navigated to the asset, completed the work, recorded labor and materials, and closed the WO. That is still the core loop, but MAS 9.2 — and the Mobile 9.
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If you are running MAS 9.0 or 9.1 today, MAS 9.2 is not a drop-in upgrade. It is a coordinated platform shift: OpenShift moves to 4.19, MongoDB to 8.0, the authentication stack gets a real OAuth2 surface, and the operator catalog gains new architecture options.
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Most Maximo deployments have a Start Center problem. It loads with a default tile set, three out-of-date KPIs, a query that returns 47,000 work orders, and a "My Work" tile that nobody trusts. Users ignore it. Supervisors build their own ad-hoc queries in the Work Order Tracking
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The single most common document-management complaint in Maximo for the last decade has been: "We have our documents in SharePoint. Why is it so painful to attach a SharePoint file to a work order?" The answer has always involved either a copy-the-file-into-Maximo workaround (which created two sources of
Industry Spotlights
The 2026 Maximo case-study signal is not in the "we deployed Maximo and our backlog went down" stories. Those are old. The signal is in the industries where the platform is being used to connect maintenance, fleet operations, inspections, and operational visibility in a single model — where the
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The 2026 Maximo community calendar is the most consequential since the 2019 IBM Think / MaximoWorld convergence. The signals: MaximoWorld is back at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville (Aug 17–20), the Pacific Maximo User Group (PacMUG) is running a four-city West Coast tour in June and July, the Australian Maximo
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.
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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,
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Category: MAS Platform & Upgrades Slug: mas-912-may-release-updates Tags: MAS 9.1, Feature Channel, OpenShift, MAS Core, Upgrade, Release Notes, watsonx