By Ralph Rio and Clint Reiser, ARC Advisory Group
Summary
IBM briefed the ARC Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) team on the most recent functional additions in the new version 7.1.1 of the IBM Maximo Spatial Asset Management product. Ever-increasing demand for spatial capabilities by utilities and other asset-intensive industries drives the ongoing software development of Maximo Spatial.
Spatial Analysis Further Expanded
IBM Maximo Spatial is bundled with the Maximo Utilities solution and also available as an add-on option for IBM’s other industry solutions. Maximo Spatial integrates IBM Maximo and ESRI ArcGIS Server, and ex-tends their combined capability with additional functions. Release 7.1.1 has numerous functional extensions and upgrades including support for multiple geo-databases, expanded interoperability with different GIS platforms, and several pragmatic geospatial query and display capabilities.
Support for multiple geo-databases benefits customers that utilize their Maximo solution across the enterprise, yet choose to store geospatial data in a distributed manner in business units or geographic territories. This architecture provides performance benefits and flexibility by allowing customers to utilize a central Maximo system, while maintaining separate GIS databases to support the differing geospatial data needs of individual departments or territories.
The new Auto Locate feature provides the ability to spatially record and display on a map a service request or work order that may not yet be associated with a record in the GIS. This can assist in short-term work order scheduling and analyzing the geographic distribution of work or-ders for longer term maintenance planning.
The Auto Create feature allows the user to bulk create a GIS feature class for a set of work orders based on a query by asset attribute or other parameter. For example, a user could perform a query of all transformer boxes that contain a defective part being recalled. This query will display symbols for all relevant assets on the map, distinguishing between those asset records linked to Maximo and those GIS data points without a link to Maximo. The results of the original query can then be further refined by using the new Polygon Selection Set functionality. The polygon functionality is useful for maintenance planning functions. It allows the user to group work orders or other query outputs by selecting discrete territories on the map, producing work order sub-sets grouped by geography. This release includes a technology migration to JavaScript REST API and increased interoperability with different GIS platforms, enabling display of additional third-party data sets.
Conclusion
This release of Maximo Spatial greatly extends the data management and spatial analysis functionality to meet the unique requirements of distributed asset management. With Maximo Spatial, IBM has established a comprehensive solution that couples advanced spatial analysis capabilities of ESRI ArcGIS with a leading asset management solution. Adding a geospatial context to asset management provides a more intuitive mapping display for users.
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