THE BPD Blog
From blogs to case studies to news, we love sharing our tips and tricks for asset management, cloud, IoT and smarter operations.
The Importance of Maximo Training and Change Management
When you implement or upgrade Maximo, it’s easy to focus on the technology without thinking about the end users until further down the line. Yet, your people is where you will get the most long-term value from the system. Your Maximo system will only ever be as good...
Looking at Maximo ‘Out-Of-The-Box’ vs BPD’s Maximo Accelerator for Oil and Gas Assets
Since joining the BPD Zenith team, I have worked with a number of Oil and Gas clients, almost all of whom are using elements of BPD Zenith's Maximo Accelerator for Oil and Gas Assets... As a Maximo Consultant with BPD Zenith UK, I continue my 28-year career in Oil...
Maximo takes us all around the world
Working for a multi-national organization such as BPD Zenith brings its own perks and specializing in a niche area such as IBM Maximo in the Asset management space, you are bound to be exposed to some excellent opportunities. I was presented with a secondment to work...
BPD Zenith has 3 IBM Champions for 2021!
2021 marks my forth year of receiving an IBM Champion award - something which I am very proud about and especially given the challenges 2020 brought. 3 IBM Champions for 2021 at BPD Zenith I am delighted to say that I am also joined by my talented and dedicated...
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Improving Data Quality & Compliance in Enterprise Asset Management
Part of the regulation and licensing that Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and other regulated industries have to adhere to refers to Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and the requirement to have a current, supported system in place. The lack of which would result in non-compliancy. They selected BPD to implement the upgrade to 7.6.1 as well as Mobility (Maximo Anywhere), Calibration and Cognos Reporting due to our experience and knowledge in highly regulated industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Oil & Gas and Nuclear.
Reimagining Maximo and licensing with the new IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) 8.0
Having recently attended the virtual UK&I Maximo User Group, I’d like to share some information from the roadmap session around the Maximo Application Suite and a new way of licensing called App Points. Maximo Today Currently, Maximo is at version 7.6.1.2 with...
Maximo Integration and custom endpoint for token retrieval
Maximo Endpoints are used for outbound integration. When we trigger integration in Maximo, publish channel with associated object structure create a message and store it in an outbound queue. Cron task for the outbound queue invokes the endpoint which routes outbound...
Single Sign On (SSO) in Maximo
As our work environments become more and more digitized, end users express a greater need to access software systems quickly and efficiently. Single Sign On (SSO) has been introduced to reduce the complexity for end users by enabling them to log in to multiple...
BPD Zenith and Premier Oil win 2020 MaximoWorld Award
Reliabilityweb.com Announces Winners of 2020 MaximoWorld Awards We are delighted to announce that Premier Oil and BPD Zenith have won the 2020 MaximoWorld Award for Best Maximo Upgrade Project! Best Upgrade Project: Premier Oil and BPD Zenith Prior to the initial...
Implementing Drill-through in a BIRT report
More often than not, we may be working with a report which lacks all the necessary details about a particular Work Order or asset. In this instance, we need to access Maximo and retrieve the relevant record to obtain the information we are after. Wouldn’t it be so...
BPD Zenith are proud ReliabilityWeb.com Marketplace Partners
This month, BPD Zenith became proud members of the ReliabilityWeb.com Marketplace Program. ReliabilityWeb.com is the first port of call for all thing’s reliability! And they’re heavyweights on social media. You’ve probably came across Terrence, Maura or any of the...
An Introduction to the Service Requests Work Center
Service Requests Work Center The Service Request tool is used to create service requests, monitor the status of existing active requests as well as view completed requests. You have the ability to create SRs on your desktop computer, laptop computer, or mobile device....
