MAS suite — Monitor
Live operating data into the asset world, without breaking the OT team
We deliver IBM Maximo Monitor as a production capability: SCADA, historian and edge data into MAS, anomaly detection that operations teams trust, and KPIs that connect live plant signals to the work and asset records in Manage.
IBM Maximo Monitor brings live operating data into the asset world. It ingests signals from SCADA, historians, edge gateways and other operational sources, applies anomaly detection and KPIs against asset and work context held in Manage, and surfaces the results to operations teams and planners. It is the part of the MAS suite that closes the loop between the plant and the system of record.
When Monitor earns its licence
Monitor pays for itself when three things are true at the same time. The asset register in Manage is in good enough shape to be the system of truth. Operational data is available, reliable and accessible without breaking the OT estate. There is a class of equipment where unplanned downtime costs more than the cost of seeing it sooner. When all three hold, Monitor takes that operational signal and turns it into work that the existing planning and reliability processes can act on.
When any of the three is missing, Monitor produces dashboards that look right and decisions that are wrong. We say so before scoping starts. Manage stabilisation, OT data engineering and a sharper business case are honest prerequisites, not delaying tactics.
What we deliver
- Readiness assessment against Manage, the OT estate and the business case for the proposed asset classes
- Source integration from SCADA, historians, edge gateways and the OT/IT boundary, with the OT team, not around them
- Monitor configuration: tag mapping, asset bindings, anomaly rules and KPIs aligned to the operating model
- Dashboard and Start Center build for operations leaders, planners and reliability engineers
- Manage integration so anomalies and condition signals create or enrich work in Manage, not in a parallel system
- Operational handover with runbooks, escalation paths and clear ownership
- Managed run-state on our cloud, with the same operations team that already runs Manage
How this fits with the rest of the programme
Monitor is the natural first step beyond Manage for most asset-intensive operators. It tends to surface during integration work with SCADA or historians, where the question of "what is this data for" eventually leads to a Monitor conversation. It also sits underneath Predict and Health, both of which assume reliable operational signal.
We host and run Monitor on the same managed cloud as Manage. Managed Maximo and MAS hosting covers how that operations platform works.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does IBM Maximo Monitor actually do?
- Monitor ingests live operating data from SCADA, historians, edge gateways and other operational sources, applies anomaly detection and KPIs against it, and surfaces the results to operations teams and into Maximo Manage. It is the part of the MAS suite that brings live plant context into the asset world.
- How is this different from a SCADA dashboard or BI tool?
- A SCADA system is built for real-time control and tagging in the OT environment. A BI tool reports on what already happened. Monitor sits between them: it is the part of MAS that takes operational signals, scores them against asset and work context that lives in Manage, and turns them into something a planner can act on.
- Do we need Manage in good shape before we deploy Monitor?
- Yes. Monitor surfaces anomalies against assets and locations that have to exist in Manage with the right hierarchy and criticality. If those records are incomplete or duplicated, the dashboards either highlight phantom equipment or miss real signals. We assess Manage readiness before we scope a Monitor engagement.
- What does an implementation look like in practice?
- A short readiness assessment against Manage and the OT estate, a focused scope on one or two asset classes where the data is already good and the business case is clear, integration of the relevant SCADA or historian sources, configuration of KPIs and anomaly rules, dashboards built for operations and planning, and operational handover into our managed run-state.
- Can MaxIron host and run Monitor?
- Yes. Monitor runs on the same Red Hat OpenShift estate as the rest of MAS, and on the same managed cloud platform we use for Manage. Hosting, monitoring, patching and upgrade are owned by the same operations team that already runs your Manage environment, or can run a new one for you. See managed Maximo and MAS hosting.
- Where does the OT cybersecurity boundary fit in?
- It is the single most important constraint in any Monitor engagement. We do not bypass the OT/IT boundary, we design across it with the OT team. The pattern almost always involves an edge or DMZ component and clear data ownership. OT cybersecurity is now an asset management problem covers our position on this in detail.
Live data, in time to act on it
Tell us which asset class is costing you unplanned downtime. We will tell you whether Monitor will earn its licence on it, what the OT integration realistically looks like, and how we would run it.
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