Good morning, Mark. I appreciate your response. It's interesting to know that within MAS the Monitor and Manage module are not integrated. It's also interesting to know that you are using Aveva OSI Pi for monitoring. We also use Aveva OSI PI, I don't believe we currently use it for monitoring as much as we use it for trending. I would like to learn more about how you are using it for monitoring.
The conundrum I'm having is accounting wants an ERP, I understand that and the reason why. The issue is Accounting does not understand the full gambit of asset management; hence "any" platform should do the job for tacking PO's and Inventory. After having meetings with the F&O team, seeing demonstrations, and speaking with others who have used F&O and migrated away for various reasons I simply do not believe this is the right platform for us, especially knowing the accounting only wants the ERP for ease of tracking financial transactions. To me the right thing is to continue with Maximo and integrate with F&O for the financials.
I have to say I completely agree with your statement regarding the data cleanse. That has been an ongoing project of mine for several years now as the original person in charge of the migration from Mapcon to Maximo, there was no cleansing/standardizing of the data before the move. Job security, I guess. Thank you for your response and have a safe day!
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Jason Resler, CMRP, MLT 1
Corporate Reliability Manager
Green Plains Inc.
Omaha, NE
jason.resler@gpreinc.com218-770-3719
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-11-2026 08:05 AM
From: Mark Pospisil
Subject: CMMS/EAM/ERP
Hi Jason, this is a good question that I often wonder myself. Our company with the 140 sites around the world uses several different platforms. The company has decided to standardize on Maximo but with that said, moving to that platform can be time consuming and difficult. Pro's Maximo is taking the steps with MAS to move to a reliability platform incorporating Asset Life Cycle management into it. I will say with some of the improvements, I don't believe they are fully mature so keeping up with updates is crucial. Our maximo platform is integrated into SAP which is our ERP system. This seems to work very well with tracking costs and spend. Prior to working here, I've worked a two other companies in my career who also standardized on Maximo so from my perspective it tends to be widely used. Another Fortune 500 company in the food and beverage used SAP. SAP gives better reporting but is much more complicated to use for the end user. Because that was also our ERP system integration was seamless. Some of the things I see in MAS is they seemed they were in a rush to get to market and are now developing aftwards. For instance the Maximo Monitor module is not integrated in the Manage module which in my opinion makes it near worthless as we currently use Aveva OSI Pi for monitoring and it's much more powerful. I do believe with the right staffing and customization you can get Maximo MAS to be a premier platform but it won't be out fo the box. The other comment that I will make is no matter what platform you decide to go with, take the time up front to clean up your data before moving it to a new system. I find over the years and many different companies, the companies who established their standards up front had the best and easiest to use systems. Make sure your reliability team has a seat at the table with the IT team when they implement the project to ensure they are looking at it from a maintenance and reliability perspective. In many cases it has nothing to do with the platform but a standard organization that could be used between plants and production lines. This will become imperative as you move toward prescriptive analytics using forms of AI.
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Mark Pospisil
Program Manager Maintenance Excellence AN Division
Abbott Laboratories
Sunbury OH
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