IBM Maximo Application Suite Health is an application within IBM Maximo Application Suite that helps organizations understand the current state of their assets. The application provides teams with a clear, data-driven view of asset reliability, enabling them to make better maintenance and operational decisions instead of relying on manual inspections or reacting after failures occur. The application brings information from multiple data sources and converts it into an easy-to-understand Health Score that indicates how healthy or risky an asset is. This Health Score helps organizational teams quickly identify which assets are performing well and which may require attention before a failure occurs. For organizations managing thousands or even millions of assets, this visibility is extremely valuable because it allows teams to focus on the right assets at the right time.
IBM Maximo Application Suite Health helps organizations transition from reactive maintenance. By identifying trends, highlighting risks, and supporting preventive maintenance planning, it enables teams to reduce downtime, improve reliability, optimize maintenance costs, and plan asset replacements more effectively. The application with its ability to improve data quality, highlights assets with missing information, helping teams maintain accurate records for better decision-making. Guided work queues and dashboards make it easier for reliability professionals to monitor asset performance, prioritize actions, and respond quickly to potential issues.
IBM Maximo Application Suite Health acts as a bridge between operations, maintenance, and business strategy. It transforms data into meaningful insights that help organizations improve efficiency, reduce risk, and make smarter long-term investment decisions.
Health Features
Work Queues
Standard work queues comes with the product. This helps to identify assets that are likely to fail before scheduled preventive maintenance (MAS Health + MAS Predict), have a high probability of failure (MAS Predict), or have low health scores. This also helps to flag assets with missing criticality scores, expected life, installation dates, and replacement costs. Technically, Work Queues can be managed (add/update) through MAF (Maximo Application Framework).
View
List: Displays assets in a searchable and filterable table format. The sorting options help users quickly prioritize assets that require attention.
Map: Displays assets on a map using color-coded pins and container overlays, enabling quick identification of high-risk assets based on location. It also supports actions such as viewing KPIs (Health, Criticality, Risk), creating workorder, service request, or create plan. Color indicators help users easily identify assets at risk, and actions can be performed directly from the map view.
Chart: Provides insights through visual charts such as health wheel , unplanned downtime, failure rates per manufacturer, and mean time between failures. It helps users compare asset performance, identify trends, and drill down into problematic asset groups.
Matrix: Organizes assets into a risk-based matrix using two scoring dimensions and helps investigate and identify assets that meet multiple score range criteria. This enables users to quickly identify assets that require urgent attention.
Health Cards
| Card Image | Card | Details | Value | Calculation method |
 | Health | The score is calculated based on the data source defined and configured for the contributors associated with the Health card, using the specified ranges (best and worst possible values) and the weightage assigned to each contributors. The configured score will be applied to the list of asset qualified for the score group. | Normalized or original value | Formula, Meter or Notebook |
 | Criticality | The score is calculated based on the data source defined and configured for the contributors associated with the criticality card, using the specified ranges (best and worst possible values) and the weightage assigned to each contributors. The configured score will be applied to the list of asset qualified for the score group. | Normalized or original value | Formula, Meter or Notebook |
 | Risk | The score is calculated based on the data source defined and configured for the contributors associated with the Risk card, using the specified ranges (best and worst possible values) and the weightage assigned to each contributors. The configured score will be applied to the list of asset qualified for the score group. Ideally this would be based on health and criticality. | Normalized or original value | Formula, Meter or Notebook |
 | Age | Defines the age of the asset. This is calculated based on the Installation Date field in Maximo/MAS Manage and current system date. Age = Installation Date – Current System Date (In years) | Original value | Internal Java code |
 | RUL | Define the remaining useful life of the asset. This is calculated based on the Installation Date and Expected Life. RUL = Expected Life – Age (In years) Note : RUL = 0 (if age > expected life) | Original value | Internal formula |
 | Next PM | Define the next upcoming scheduled maintenance. This is calculated (in Days) based on the preventive maintenance record setup in Maximo/MAS Manage for the asset . | Original value | Internal Java code |
 | MRR | Defines the Maintenance-to-Replacement Ratio, which helps determine whether to replace the asset or continue using the existing one. This is calculated based on YTD Costs and Replacement Cost fields of Maximo/MAS Manage. MRR = (YTD Costs/Replacement Cost) * 100 | Original value | Internal formula |
 | MTBF | Defines Mean Time Between Failures, which helps to estimate the possible failure of the assets. This is calculated based on age and Un Scheduled work orders during the age. | Original value | Internal formula |
 | End of life | Defines the end of life for the asset. | Normalized or original value | Formula or Formula, Meter or Notebook |
 | Effective age | Defines effective age of the asset. | Original value | Notebook |
 | Next failure | Card for MAS Predict to show next predicted failure (in Days) for the asset. | Original value | Maximo Predict machine learning model |
 | Custom scores | Custom scores help display the insights and KPIs that the business is interested in. Custom scores can be configured based on formula and notebook | Normalized | Formula, Meter or Notebook |
Asset Information
This section displays asset details from Maximo Manage, including asset type, serial number, and installation date. Maximo Manage is tightly integrated with Health to provide seamless access to asset information.
Asset Scores
The Score Detail section helps clearly identify the contributors that impacted the health score. It displays the scores of contributors associated with each individual card along with the weightage.
Health History
This section provides a graphical view of the asset health history over a period of time. The sliding window helps control the chart view. Contributor scores and overall asset health are visually represented in the trend chart. Users can select a specific contributor to analyze its performance over time and understand how it has impacted the overall health score.
Asset Timeline
This section provides a consolidated view of the asset’s PMs, work orders, inspections, and next predicted failure (MAS Predict). It helps business users clearly understand when the last failure occurred, the reported problem, cause, and remedy at that time, when the last inspection was performed, when the next scheduled maintenance is due, and when the next failure is predicted (MAS Predict).
Operational Status
This section helps to view the meter reading information for the meters associated with the assets.
Maintenance History
This section displays the work orders for the assets, thereby providing insights into maintenance happened on the selected asset.
Replacement Planning
This section helps define the replacement or refurbishment plan for the asset. It enables comparison of expenses for assets nearing the end of their lifecycle and supports decision-making on whether to repair or replace them.
Perform Action
Health has the capability to raise Work Order and Service request to Maximo/MAS Manage.
Benefits
- Better reliability, Improved maintenance and operational efficiency
- Provides insights through Scores and KPIs to help assess the condition and performance of assets.
- Support maintaining the asset based on health, which helps to increase the asset availability and in turn reduce the unnecessary PM’s
- Enables visibility of asset conditions in a single view, supporting better data-driven decision-making.
- Brings together condition assessment readings from assets and historical information from work and equipment records
- Integrates closely with IBM Maximo Manage, enabling easy access to asset information.
- Helps to focus on the right assets at the right time, which reduces the operational risk.
- Enables quick identification of assets that are at risk or poor performance.
- Enables scalability of health dashboard for similar assets across various sites
- Helps track and identify missing or incomplete asset data to improve data quality.
- Provides the ability to take actions directly from Maximo Health.
- Assists organizations in making informed repair-versus-replacement decisions.
- Reduced downtime, Increased asset lifecycle, Lower maintenance cost
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