CMMS/Asset Management Software

In the evolving world of maintenance management, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) have already brought about a significant leap in how organisations schedule, track, and manage their maintenance operations. Now, with the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), CMMS platforms are undergoing a second transformation — one that’s smarter, more predictive, and driven by data.

From Reactive to Predictive Maintenance

Traditional CMMS systems are excellent at centralising maintenance data and managing work orders. However, most of their functionality relies on scheduled input and reactive response. AI changes that paradigm. By analysing historical maintenance records, equipment usage patterns, and sensor data from IoT-connected devices, AI can identify trends and forecast potential failures before they happen.

This predictive capability allows organisations to shift from time-based to condition-based maintenance — reducing downtime, extending asset life, and cutting unnecessary servicing costs.

Smarter Workflows and Automated Decision-Making

AI-powered CMMS platforms are not just about prediction; they also enhance decision-making. Algorithms can automatically prioritise maintenance requests based on urgency, asset criticality, and historical data. AI can even recommend the best course of action or assign jobs to technicians with the most relevant skills and availability.

As a result, maintenance teams become more efficient and responsive, while managers gain valuable insights to support strategic planning.

Enhanced Asset Management

Through AI, CMMS platforms can create dynamic asset hierarchies and continuously optimise them based on equipment performance data. This enables more accurate asset tagging, better inventory management, and clearer cost tracking.

AI can also identify underperforming assets or recurring issues across a facility — providing a deeper layer of asset intelligence that informs repair-or-replace decisions.

Natural Language Processing and Voice Integration

Many modern CMMS platforms are integrating AI-driven features like natural language processing (NLP). This allows users to interact with the system via simple voice commands or text input — making it easier to log issues, search for asset histories, or retrieve documentation hands-free.

This functionality is especially useful in field environments, where speed and accessibility are crucial.

Continuous Learning and Adaptability

Unlike static software, AI-enhanced CMMS platforms improve over time. As they process more data, the algorithms become more accurate in detecting anomalies, recommending fixes, and optimising schedules. This self-learning capability means the system adapts to your facility’s unique needs — providing increasing value as it evolves.

Final Thoughts

AI is rapidly shifting CMMS platforms from digital logbooks to intelligent maintenance ecosystems. Organisations that embrace this technology are not only improving asset reliability and technician productivity but are also laying the groundwork for fully autonomous maintenance operations in the near future.

The future of maintenance isn’t just digital — it’s intelligent.

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I speak with hundreds of manufacturing decision-makers and industry experts at industry events about the major trends impacting the global manufacturing industry.

With output set to rise by three percent in 2025, it is clear that the future of the industry is bright. Judging by the conversations I have with people at the manufacturing frontline, this positive development is to a large degree driven by the increasing adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies and practices among businesses around the world.

As the industry grows smarter, here are my four key takeaways from my conversations with leading manufacturers. These major trends and innovations are highly likely to shape global manufacturing in 2025 and beyond.

1. Advancing Digitalization

In the world of manufacturing, digitalization is often synonymous with automation. This is something that manufacturers have always excelled at. Simultaneously, sensors and endpoints are widespread and their numbers growing, a noticeable upsurge from Gartner's 21 billion estimate back in 2020. What this means is that clearly, businesses can capture data like never before.

I expect that we will see accelerated efforts to augment automation with data to drive even smarter factories and equip decision-makers with unprecedented insights, especially when it comes to enterprise asset management (EAM). We should also expect digital twins—an area predicted to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30 percent from 2023 to 2027—to play an integral role in this development as businesses look for intelligent ways to transform vast fields of unstructured data into a centralized model that helps visualize complex assets and improve collaboration between departments and functions.

As digitalization picks up even more momentum over the coming years, so will the associated risks. By digitizing processes and value chains, companies are exposing themselves to the threat of data security challenges, including malware incidents, loss of data, or Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks that have the potential to cripple businesses. Given the magnitude of the risks involved, I believe that we will see increased focus among manufacturing businesses to invest in effective cybersecurity measures. This will, in turn, lead to an industry-wide strengthening of supply chain integrity.

Advancing digitalization and automation will naturally influence the workforce. However, rather than replacing those roles filled by humans, technology will instead be used as a tool to help improve the efficiency of personnel to make workdays more productive and flexible. In other words, when digitalization has automated those tasks that do not benefit from human intervention, workers are free to turn their attention to more complex tasks where value can be added.

2. AI-Powered Predictive Maintenance

As the above-mentioned figures from Gartner indicate, the industry is connecting assets at a furious pace. This increase in available data is the driving force behind an advancement in predictive maintenance initiatives, which I believe will help shape the manufacturing sector in the years to come. The most crucial component of any effort in this area is the EAM solution and how it connects to the company’s installed base of assets. After all, the more interconnected the EAM solution and your assets become, the more imperative it is to predict and project on asset failure. With the help of data-driven insights, predicting when a machine will fail will allow businesses to take measures to prevent this from happening.

The growing interest in predictive maintenance is hardly surprising given the financial incentives. For example, predictive maintenance can save up to 40 percent in costs compared to reactive maintenance and 8–12 percent when compared to preventive maintenance. Predictive maintenance can also extend asset lifespans by 20–40 percent. No wonder the market for these solutions is projected to grow to USD 47.8 billion in 2029 (CAGR 35.1 percent).

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key differentiator that will drive all major advancements in predictive maintenance for years to come. Making sense of and operationalizing sensory data, AI models will retain their looming presence in enterprise asset management as companies explore new ways of harnessing machine learning to enhance error detection and prevention, while also increasing energy efficiency.  

3. Purposeful Production

At the same rate the global population is growing, so is our demand for goods and services. To meet this demand, greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 50 percent over the last three decades. In 2023, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the manufacturing and raw materials industries accounted for approximately 23 percent of emissions, while manufacturing consumed some 33 percent of the world’s energy.

As a result of these rather sobering figures, I see a clear shift among manufacturers toward a more purposeful production wherein goods are made in a way that minimizes the environmental footprint, conserves resource and considers both the social and economic aspects of its impact.

What we are seeing now and in the coming years is a global shift to a circular economy that lets us reduce waste and use resources more efficiently. As these new imperatives are becoming reality, manufacturers will need to adopt technology to help implement lean processes, ensure increased productivity, minimize energy consumption, ensure supply chain traceability, enhance workplace safety and much more.

For the manufacturing sector, this is a sea change that imposes increasingly stringent demands on operations - not only in terms of supply chain visibility and raw material sourcing, but also when it comes to the emissions and energy consumption of their factories. For this reason, many businesses will need to overhaul production methods, maintenance practices, and reporting capabilities.

4. The Changing Workforce, and Skills Shortages

There’s a clear shift in the way maintenance departments operate that will reach a critical inflection point in 2025. As internal processes become increasingly digitized, maintenance workers must become more adept at using different technologies, tools and platforms. New skill sets are required around the collection, analysis and interpretation of data that will assure manufacturers are fit for the future.

The lack of skilled personnel is acute. A third (31 percent) of companies outsource operations because skilled individuals are hard to find, and over half (58 percent) of manufacturing employees have worked in the industry for more than 20 years. 

While manufacturers have been dealing with an aging workforce for some time, they would be wise to start hiring on skill sets that better match the technological requirements and advancements of tomorrow, versus talent that will follow directly in the footsteps of today’s engineers.

Looking further to the future, immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and augmented reality (AR) are set to redefine how all industries function. In the manufacturing sector, metaverse-based tools will unlock new vistas of opportunity. For example, VR technology can help staff to develop their skills without leaving the room. MR and AR can likewise empower workers to solve problems in the field by tapping into a central knowledge repository or by drawing on the skills of remote coworkers. Besides savings in time, cost and effort, reports suggest monumental increases in productivity of up to 20 percent. The business case for immersive technology is compelling.

Immersive technology holds the potential to revolutionize the way manufacturing operates, and the growing reliance on predictive analytics, AR, VR, and other advanced technologies will demand a workforce proficient not just in basic digital skills, but also in using these sophisticated tools in their daily work.

With a third of the manufacturing workforce at age 55 or older, businesses will be forced to make changes in order to attract younger generations of workers. Over the next few years, I believe that a vanguard of manufacturing businesses will start deploying immersive and other emerging technology to appeal to generation-now workers whose digital nativeness and low threshold for adoption will unlock new efficiencies and ways of working.

The Future is Bright

Despite some of the challenges outlined above, I see a bright future for the manufacturing industry. Speaking with customers, partners, and industry experts, it is clear to me that there has never been a more opportune moment to improve, streamline and innovate. Combining the potential of cutting-edge technology with the responsible and sustainable ethos of purposeful production, I am convinced that the manufacturing industry is ready to face the future.

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• New alliance combines expertise at MC Global Solutions with Ultimo’s industry-leading¹ EAM platform across Australia, New Zealand and the UK
• MC Global Solutions’ clients to benefit from Ultimo’s holistic enterprise asset management (EAM) platform
• Facilities management (FM) and EAM expertise of MC Global Solutions to further simplify industrial asset management

More businesses in Australia, New Zealand and the UK are set to benefit from Ultimo’s Cloud-based enterprise asset management (EAM) platform thanks to a new partnership with EAM consultancy, MC Global Solutions. The company specializes in third-party software integration to automate processes, enhance efficiency and reduce costs. Working for customers such as News Corp Australia and Devro, MC Global Solutions provides an integrated set of software applications backed with superior expertise, to make business systems more efficient and effective.

Steve Martin, Managing Director of MC Global Solutions, emphasizes the importance of EAM as a strategic goal for companies aiming to optimize their maintenance and operational workflows, “Our collaboration with IFS Ultimo enhances the accessibility of asset decision-making within the EAM industry, empowering organizations to manage operations more efficiently, minimize equipment downtime, and ultimately drive improved performance.”

James Mansfield, Channel Sales Director at IFS Ultimo adds, “This partnership is about leveraging the strengths of both companies to bring a truly innovative solution to the markets of MC Global. By combining MC Global Solutions’ expertise in EAM and FM software consultancy with our cutting-edge platform, we are creating a solution that transforms asset management from a cumbersome process into an efficient operation.”

With 90 percent of industrial companies acknowledging that improved EAM software is pivotal to their future maintenance strategies, and only 60 percent having adopted it, the collaboration between IFS Ultimo and MC Global Solutions is an important step towards providing the tools they need.

The partnership is expected to drive significant efficiency, cost, and safety improvements for organizations navigating the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

• Facilities management use cases suggest that enhanced building maintenance efficiency, with task resolution rates increasing by 40 percent can be achieved
• For manufacturers, decreased unplanned downtime, can lead to improved machinery uptime. In some cases, the solution has sped up quality checks on more than 1,500 assets, achieving time savings of 60-70 percent
• Healthcare organizations can expect accelerated diagnostics for medical equipment.

To find out more about the joint offering, or to see the industry use cases, contact the companies here.

About MC Global Solutions
MC Global Solutions specializes in EAM and FM software consultancy, helping organizations streamline business processes, enhance efficiency, and reduce costs with cloud-based solutions. Learn more at MC Global Solutions.

About IFS Ultimo

IFS Ultimo, an IFS company, energizes the financial resilience, regulatory compliance and operational excellence for healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics businesses through its innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions. Focused on maintenance, uptime, safety, cost control, and efficiency, the Company is known for rapid deployment, ease of use and an unparalleled time to value. Ultimo supports over 100,000 technicians who manage more than 15 million assets for 2400+ customers worldwide. For further information see ultimo.com.

1. https://www.ultimo.com/blog/ifs-ultimo-named-an-industry-leader-in-enterprise-asset-management-eam-software-by-independent-analyst-firm/

Europe's leading manufacturer of sweet biscuits implements preventive maintenance with Ultimo / Cross-site introduction planned

More than 100,000 tons of sweet biscuits per year, delivered to over 80 countries worldwide: Bahlsen is the leading biscuit manufacturer in Germany and one of the leading suppliers in Europe. The company uses IFS Ultimo for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) to optimize maintenance management for its systems, achieve maximum uptime with preventive maintenance and standardize processes in four plants. 

In February 2023, Bahlsen introduced the cloud-based software solution at its production site in Berlin. A blueprint for desired maintenance processes was developed and tested here. Initially, 24 users used the Standard Asset Management. An important part of this is the integration of production, whose employees can report failures directly in the system or resolve reported failures straight away. The aim of the pilot project was to define the requirements for the system solution and establish common KPIs, which are then measured at group level. Ultimo was then transferred to the company's other plants using the experience gained in Berlin. Ultimo is also to be implemented at the logistics site. As a result, Ultimo is used to implement, centrally monitor and optimize standardized maintenance processes across the company. 

"Bahlsen produces bakery products in a total of five plants. With IFS Ultimo, we achieve the greatest possible transparency across all sites regarding the condition of our equipment and improved reporting and monitoring of maintenance activities. This data enables us to move from reactive to preventive maintenance and thus reduce downtimes due to unplanned maintenance to a minimum", says project manager Aimal Khan, Digital Manager at Bahlsen regarding the introduction of Ultimo.

Necessary downtimes can be efficiently planned and managed with Ultimo. Operators, maintenance staff and management access the same centrally managed data. In the long run, Bahlsen also intends to use the integrated Long Term Asset Planning module (LTAP). This enables maintenance staff to draw up long-term budget plans for their equipment based on the condition of the assets and the costs of maintenance, renovation and replacement. 

This allows informed decisions on maintenance measures and the implementation of preventive maintenance with maximum cost efficiency.

Heike Roth, Team Lead Inside Sales, IFS Ultimo, adds: "With IFS Ultimo’s cloud-based EAM software, Bahlsen benefits from shared maintenance KPIs that are defined, measured and monitored at group level. Together with the wide range of asset management functions, this maximizes productivity and efficiency. This strategic approach underlines the company's high standards of quality and innovative strength."

In addition to the flexible and powerful modules for planning, optimizing, executing and monitoring maintenance activities, the integration of Ultimo into intelligent Asset Performance Management (APM) platforms was also a reason for the decision to use IFS Ultimo for Enterprise Asset Management. The two companies work closely together in a strategic partnership to enable customers to make fast, accurate and data-driven decisions and to help the industry improve its operational performance and sustainability.

Ultimo is a cloud-based Enterprise Asset Management software with numerous modules for managing assets, work orders, projects, maintenance, and health, safety and environmental (HSE) issues. It helps to map and manage processes transparently and to simplify their execution. All data is centrally available to users in Ultimo and can also be used on the move thanks to the cloud-based solution - whether on a PC or laptop or the operator's or maintenance manager's mobile device directly at the equipment. For this purpose, dedicated Android and iOS apps are available.

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• Enterprise asset management (EAM) system manages and maintains manufacturing assets
• Improved operational efficiency with mobile-enabled engineers, better resource allocation, and predictive maintenance
• Powering ACC to increase production volume and support the automotive sector’s energy transition

Vehicle battery manufacturer, Automotive Cells Company (ACC), has implemented enterprise asset management (EAM) software from IFS Ultimo to drive the development and industrialization of the first French battery for the automotive industry. By managing and maintaining more than 20,000 manufacturing assets with the EAM system, the Mercedes and Stellantis-owned company has improved operational efficiency and enabled both corrective and preventative maintenance.

Powering the energy transition through sustainable, affordable, high-capacity, and longer-life batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), ACC expects to manufacture batteries for 150,000 Stellantis vehicles by the end of 2025, with the first block currently in ramp-up. With its machines running for longer periods, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) EAM system allows ACC to repair assets quickly, saving time and money, and ultimately increasing production volumes.

François Carrot, Information System Director at ACC, explains, “Price competition is the first challenge for ACC. To win this battle and become a key player in the European energy transition, ACC focuses on scrap reduction and increasing overall equipment effectiveness. Our team understands the importance of adopting a modern and efficient EAM to manage and maintain the industrial assets that are critical to our strategic ambition. Better resource allocation and responsiveness underscore the operational efficiency at ACC, which is pivotal to the commercial performance of manufacturing businesses.”

Delivered by integrator Inoteam, the system setup includes plans and photographs for each ACC machine. Using mobile applications on tablets, engineers simply scan a QR code to access documentation associated with each of the 20,000+ assets. This includes information on periodical maintenance, the history of all operations performed, along with comments from the people who have worked on it. Being mobile-enabled allows ACC engineers to conduct maintenance rounds and record various values ‘on-the-go’. The centralized EAM also manages stock to ensure the availability of parts during repairs.

Johan Made, CEO at IFS Ultimo adds, “It is our mission to be easy to do business with. That requires us to deliver solutions that are easy to use and fast to deploy. With ACC, we saw a young company poised for growth that needed to catalogue all the machines in its facilities, including tracking all corrective and preventative maintenance to avoid breakdowns. They needed an EAM to provide a reference system. And they needed it fast. Rolled out to users in just six months, the engineers find it intuitive and rich in data.”

ACC’s digital transformation journey with IFS Ultimo will progressively continue, with the addition of functionality for purchasing, as well as health, safety, and environment (HSE) with permits.

About ACC

Automotive Cells Company (ACC) is poised to become the European leader in automotive batteries. Backed by TotalEnergies-Saft, Stellantis, and Mercedes AG, with robust support from European authorities, particularly in France, Germany, and Italy, we are committed to developing and industrializing the next generation of cleaner energy sources for transport through sustainable, affordable, high-capacity, and longer-life batteries.

As a competitive high-tech company, we are investing billions in the early stages of our development. Our R&D Excellence Center is operational in Bruges (Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine), alongside our state-of-the-art pilot plant in Nersac, France (Angoulème, Nouvelle-Aquitaine). Our first gigafactory in Billy-Berclau Douvrin, Hauts-de-France, the first of its kind in France, was inaugurated in May 2023 and is ramping up large-scale production. Over the next few years, we will further enhance our innovation and production capacities with a second block starting in 2026 in Billy-Berclau Douvrin. We have already established a global network of R&D associates, industrial partners, and suppliers.

About IFS Ultimo

IFS Ultimo, an IFS company, energizes the financial resilience, regulatory compliance and operational excellence for healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics businesses through its innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions. Focused on maintenance, uptime, safety, cost control, and efficiency, the Company is known for rapid deployment, ease of use and an unparalleled time to value. Ultimo supports over 100,000 technicians who manage more than 15 million assets for 2400+ customers worldwide. For further information see ultimo.com.

AI boosted Enterprise Asset Management software will significantly improve employee productivity and maximize asset performance

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software provider IFS Ultimo has integrated AI functionality into its next-generation EAM platform to enhance troubleshooting, and enable organizations to reduce the mean time to repair (MTTR) of their assets. By leveraging AI, EAM toolsets will be more intuitive, accessible and predictive, therefore driving unprecedented efficiency and effectiveness in asset management practices. The new AI features will be unveiled on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at IFS Unleashed, Orlando, Florida, USA.

“AI will take EAM to the next level. Our vision for AI is to focus on real world use cases. When considering what AI to integrate into our platform, we are only embedding features which will add significant value for our customers and improve their user experience”, says Chris van den Belt, Head of Product Management, IFS Ultimo. “Infusing our EAM platform with AI functionalities will radically improve employee productivity and maximize asset availability.”

Many AI technologies are geared towards predicting and preventing failures and incidents. However, for the majority of organizations, these technologies are more of a long-term goal than a short-term reality. Reactive maintenance will continue to feature prominently in most organization's maintenance strategies. With this in mind, IFS Ultimo has made the conscious decision to harness the powers of AI to significantly reduce time spent on reactive maintenance. Realizing these short-term benefits starting today puts long-term objectives within arm's reach.

Use of AI minimizes downtime and boosts productivity 

It is estimated that 80 percent of time in MTTR is spent on diagnosing a problem. The biggest chunk of time wasted is due to a lack of communication and detail in failure reports. With Ultimo's built-in AI capabilities, organizations can realize tremendous value with each percentage point reduction in MTTR. This is not chump change: the average cost of downtime in manufacturing often exceeds $100K per hour. Beyond the clear financial stakes, the productivity impact is also profound, especially in an industry where skilled labor is already hard to come by. Furthermore, the immense increase in overall data quality unlocks a wide array of new and exciting possibilities for achieving operational excellence.

The newly integrated AI functionality provides better quality of failure reporting. Having to spend less time on diagnosing a problem means skilled employees will benefit from increased wrench time, increased asset availability, reduced admin time, improved collaboration and improved employee satisfaction.

More accurate failure reports accelerate troubleshooting

Front line workers spend the majority of their working day close to the assets they know so well. Any changes to the way these assets look, sound, smell or feel will not pass them by. Using a large language model (LLM), Ultimo detects the asset in question and provides a series of tailored suggestions that the reporter can easily add to the failure report without having to type. In doing so, all of the sensory observations are captured on the report accurately, providing maintenance teams with complete and accurate information to quickly solve the issue and increase asset availability and reliability.

This same approach will be used elsewhere in Ultimo to empower the faster resolution of diagnosed issues and enhance the accuracy of completed work activities registered in the system. The overall benefits include a substantial reduction of time spent on administration, severe improvements to data quality and a boost to employee satisfaction. Furthermore, Ultimo is working on integrated AI features that will greatly improve user experience, such as photo-based meter readings, auto-generated image and document captions and auto-translated multi-lingual data.

Chris concludes: “We are dedicated to developing our products to help users do their jobs more easily with our best-of-breed EAM software. AI has the capability to enhance EAM in future-ready and efficient ways - empowering employees, improving asset performance, and reducing costs. We are very excited to bring these new AI functionalities to our customers while making sure all relevant data protection is in place.”

For more information visit www.ultimo.com/ai.

1. IFS Ultimo earns coveted “LEADER” recognition for second consecutive Verdantix Green Quadrant®: EAM Software report
2. Industrial software company is acknowledged for strong capabilities in business intelligence, robust integrations, flexible pricing and slick user interface
3. Achieves top position for both market momentum and product capabilities

Today, IFS Ultimo announced it has been recognized as “a Leader” in the 2024 Verdantix Green Quadrant®: Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Software report.

In the report, IFS Ultimo is acknowledged for strong capabilities in business intelligence, robust integrations, its slick user interface and flexible pricing. This marks the second consecutive report where Ultimo has achieved Leader status; a consistent standing since 2022.

This Verdantix Green Quadrant® analysis benchmarks the most prominent EAM software vendors in the market and surveys decision makers on operational excellence initiatives. The report indicates several trends influencing growth in the EAM space, including mobile functionality, rapid implementations and analytics for predictive maintenance strategies.

Based on the Green Quadrant analysis, Ultimo earned a top position for both market momentum and product capabilities in the Leaders’ Quadrant.

This leader standing is a testament to the investments Ultimo is making in its growth. In the last year, the company has increased investment in research and development, expanded marketing to drive awareness, and has grown its network of certified partners by almost 50 percent - all while maintaining its outstanding 98 percent customer retention rate.

In addition, Ultimo is committed to equipping customers with functionality that can play an important role in the execution of their environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives. These capabilities aid customers in maintaining compliant work environments, support reliability and reproducibility of information, map energy consumption and more.

Johan Made, CEO, IFS Ultimo, said, "Receiving recognition from a highly respected research firm like Verdantix underscores the strong momentum behind our growth and success. Since joining IFS Ultimo in January 2024, I’ve been continually impressed by the excellence of our product and the unwavering dedication of our team. Together, we consistently deliver measurable business value to our customers, ensuring their success, as well as offering capabilities that support them on their sustainable asset management journey.”

“IFS Ultimo offers standardized integrations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and SAP, as well as custom integrations with Oracle and Infor,” explains Hugo Fuller, Senior Analyst, Verdantix. “The firm also has several integrations with connected worker solutions, including those offered by XMReality, Microsoft HoloLens, and POKA, which was also acquired by IFS, in 2023. IFS Ultimo has also built an extensive partnership network with implementation and technology partners. Partners include APM solution provider AVEVA, GIS technology provider Esri, and SAP.”

To learn more about the 2024 Verdantix Green Quadrant®: EAM Software report, visit www.verdantix.com, or www.ultimo.com/verdantix.

Independent research firm, recognizes eMaint as a leader in the market citing strengths in inventory management, inspections, work order management, and analytic capabilities.

Fluke Reliability, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fortive Corporation [NYSE: FTV], which empowers reliability and maintenance teams with the hardware, software, and services they need to optimize asset performance, today announced that its EAM solution, has been positioned as a Leader in the 2024 Green Quadrant EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) Verdantix report.

The Verdantix Green Quadrant for EAM, positions eMaint as a Leader in the Enterprise Asset Management Category, recognizing its market-leading inventory management capabilities, strong inspections, and work order management capabilities.

Ranked highly for inventory management capabilities, eMaint’s Parts and Materials Management module was called out as key contributor for both the analysts and customers interviewed. The module includes a full suite of requisitioning, purchasing, and receiving capabilities with robust stock management, transaction records, and reporting functionality.

Recognising the functionality Fluke Reliability has added through acquisitions and strategic partnerships this year, the report highlighted how the acquisition of Azima DLI added predictive maintenance capabilities and how partnerships with Verusen and Augmentir added AI-based spare parts optimization and connected worker functionality for broader personas respectively.

Verdantix also highlights eMaint’s inspection capabilities and work order management as core strengths, offering manufacturers powerful configuration options that can be customized to suit the plant and workers within. Coupled with eMaint’s flexible scheduling and out-of-the-box low-code and customizable templates, the software demonstrates its ability to meet diverse operational needs.

Another key differentiator is eMaint’s open, REST-based API architecture, which enables seamless integration with a wide range of enterprise systems and IoT platforms, including ERPs (enterprise resource platforms) and Fluke Reliability’s Azima DLI Watchman 360 vibration analytics platform. This integration enhances customers' ability to monitor and analyse asset health with greater precision and efficiency.

"In recent years, the Enterprise Asset Management market has experienced significant transformation driven by the challenges faced by organizations as they adjust to evolving market demands,” commented Hugo Fuller, Senior Analyst, Verdantix. “Within this landscape, the Verdantix research finds that eMaint possesses strengths to address the needs of manufacturers seeking Enterprise Asset Management solutions.”

Jason Waxman, President of Fluke Corporation and Fluke Reliability, said, “After focusing on building the most industry-centric and configurable EAM solution on the market, it feels great to be recognized as a Leader in Enterprise Asset Management by Verdantix. This acknowledgment underscores our commitment to delivering innovative solutions that strengthen our customer's operational resilience as they embark on their journey to connected reliability.”

Commenting on the recognition, Aaron Merkin, Chief Technology Officer of Fluke Reliability, said, “There is a heightened demand for advanced predictive maintenance technologies, and mobile-first intelligent asset management software that empowers businesses to anticipate issues, optimise performance, and extend asset lifecycles. eMaint's position as a leader in enterprise asset management attests to its capacity to deliver value and ensure return on investment for our customers in a volatile landscape.”

To read the full Verdantix report, visit https://www.verdantix.com/research-portal.

IFS Cloud specialist Arcwide and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) platform provider IFS Ultimo have signed an implementation partnership. By adding IFS Ultimo as a best-of-breed EAM platform to its portfolio as part of this partnership, Arcwide empowers customers to get more value out of its IFS Cloud platform solution. Arcwide will be managing the partnership on a global scale, following the formation of its EAM center of expertise in Benelux.

Olivier Baudry, Director, Arcwide comments, “We are thrilled to announce our joined efforts through our newly founded EAM center of expertise in which IFS Ultimo will play a key role. With IFS Ultimo, we will enable our industrial customers to improve their asset management operations, with an emphasis on maintenance and safety.”

Pierre Robino, Director, Arcwide adds, “Through this partnership, Arcwide is reinforcing its commitment to the IFS best-of-breed solutions. The partnership between IFS Ultimo and Arcwide will support customers in managing their assets, adding further value to their businesses.”

Maarten Meijer, Manager Channel Services, IFS Ultimo says, “We strengthen each other on our joint growth opportunities in this partnership, including our mutual growth ambitions in the USA and Europe. Arcwide is well-known in the industry with years of experience in the IFS ecosystem. Its core business is IFS Cloud ERP implementations, which often also include EAM services. Now, Arcwide can expand its portfolio by offering its customers the best of both worlds: A best-of-breed EAM solution like IFS Ultimo and an integrated best-of-suite solution, such as IFS Cloud.”

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