American Axle and Manufacturing Upgrade and Consolidation Story with Zero Production Downtime

Bill Quinlan, American Axle and Manufacturing

American Axle and Manufacturing (AAM) is a global manufacturing company with more than 80 plants worldwide with over 30 which use Maximo. With acquisitions and reorganizations, AAM was running two versions of Maximo: 7.1 on Oracle supporting multiple languages and a 7.6 on SQL Server that supported only English.

AAM teamed with Cohesive Solutions to employ a unique technology solution, allowing them to simultaneously upgrade, consolidate, and configure with zero system downtime. In this session, learn about best practices and this unique upgrade technology.

Takeaways: Best practices for a Maximo upgrade – timeline and budget Challenges overcome and lessons learned Business case for zero downtime tool – how it impacted upgrade and operations