COSOL News & Insights

Today COSOL launched a new Digital Twin viewer for IBM Maximo Application Suite in partnership with Nextspace and digital engineering specialists, DBM Vircon. The viewer provides geospatial BIM viewing and 4D integration and is designed to overcome the scale and complexity limitations of existing IBM MAS plugin viewers. Learn more >

With organisations increasingly aware of the need to balance ESG goals and responsibilities with cost, risk and productivity demands, implementing sustainable MRO inventory management has become as essential mechanism to not only reduce costs or asset downtime but is an effective way to activly reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain. Learn more >

Re-architecting your Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) information systems is a critical and complex undertaking - but also high-risk. Learn about how COSOL's technical, functional, and asset-intensive industry expertise will help your organisation transition successfully to the next generation of EAMs or ERPs.

For organisations considering the transition from IBM Maximo 7.6.1.x to Maximo Application Suite, a MAS Readiness Assessment is the critical first step to ensure your organisation has the right licensing, technical and functional requirements in place to ensure a successful upgrade before support for Maximo 7.6.1,x ends in September 2025.

In this third article on upgrading from Maximo 7.6.1.x to IBM Maximo Application Suite, we look at why how organisations can plan their transition to maintain currency of support, achieve optimal licensing with AppPoints, and set strong foundations to take advantage of the advanced capabilities that the Application suite provides after the initial upgrade to Maximo Manage.

Companies that fully embrace warranty management and develop the necessary processes to maximise warranty recoveries have five key components that contribute to warranty management process excellence. Learn what they are >

In this second article in our series about upgrading to IBM Maximo Application Suite and the new AppPoints licensing, we look at the top 5 reasons to upgrade to IBM MAS now, and how starting with a readiness assessment can ensure a smooth transition and upgrade for your organisation.

Maintaining high data quality within an EAM system is not a trivial task. In this article, we will delve into the significance of data quality in EAM and explore strategies to ensure its integrity, consistency, and usefulness.

Planning and executing an EAM/ERP transformation can take time. When the need for change is looming, leaving it to the last minute simply isn’t an option. In this article, we look at some of the drivers for change, weigh the balance of challenge and opportunity, and identify the steps to successful transformation.

In this second of two articles about Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation success, we explain why a readiness assessment is an essential first step in any ERP implementation including SAP and migrating from ECC to S/4HANA.

In this article, we speak with Stuart Burckhardt, co-founder of OnPlan Technologies (now part of the COSOL group) about how the OnPlan digital work management platform is digitising maintenance for industrial workforces and enhancing the capabilities of ERP such as SAP.

In the first of two articles on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation success, we delve into some of the common practices that organisations need to avoid if they want to ensure the success of their new or upgraded ERP.