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Naviam Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Cohesive from Bentley Systems, Alongside Significant Growth Investment from Norwest

The acquisition is expected to solidify Naviam's position as the largest global IBM Maximo business partner. As part of the transaction, Bentley Systems will make a strategic equity investment in Naviam and join its Board of Directors, while Norwest will make a significant growth investment in the combined Naviam and Cohesive business. The partnership will also bring together Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, Naviam Cloud, and IBM Maximo to unlock greater value across the full asset lifecycle.

MaximoWorld 2026 Spotlights AI-Powered Asset Management in Nashville

Registrations climb 23% year-over-year Reliabilityweb enters new chapter with Nineteen Group

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — MaximoWorld 2026, part of Reliabilityweb, the premier event for IBM Maximo and MREF (formerly TRIRIGA) users and the reliability, maintenance, and asset management community, concluded a successful four-day run in Nashville, Tennessee, August 17–20. The event drew more than 1,300 registrations, a 23% increase over the prior year.

Reliabilityweb Announces Winners of the 2026 MaximoWorld and MaximoWorld Real Estate & Facilities (MREF) Awards

Reliabilityweb announced the winners of the 2026 MaximoWorld Awards and MaximoWorld Real Estate & Facilities (MREF) Awards, recognizing organizations and teams that have delivered outstanding results in maintenance, reliability, and asset management using IBM Maximo and related technologies. The winners were honored during MaximoWorld 2026, held August 17–20 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

MaximoWorld 2026 Brings Reliability, Maintenance, and Asset Management Professionals to Nashville

NASHVILLE, TN — MaximoWorld 2026, the largest independent conference for IBM Maximo users, comes to Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center August 17–20. The event brings together reliability, maintenance, and asset management professionals from 27 different counties for four days of education, certification, and networking focused on getting more value from Maximo and the broader Maximo Application Suite (MAS).

Emerson Brings Enhanced AI Capability and Streamlined Application Deployment to the Industrial Edge

AUSTIN, Texas (Aug. 11, 2026) – Global automation leader Emerson today announced PACEdge™ version 3.0, the latest advancement to its IIoT enablement software platform, helping to bring AI capabilities and frictionless application deployment to edge devices. Enhancements to the PACEdge platform empower teams in life sciences, oil and gas, packaging, food and beverage and many other industries to more intuitively secure, deploy and standardize edge applications to drive the most efficiency and productivity from their operations.

INTELLIAM AI LAUNCHES AN INDUSTRIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM, PROVEN TO LIFT RELIABILITY 215% AND DEVELOPED WITH GLOBAL ENGINEERING LEADER SKF, AS MANUFACTURERS RACE TO CLOSE A 2.1 MILLION-WORKER GAP

Manufacturing is being rebuilt at record pace, with more than a trillion dollars committed to new factories, yet the skilled people needed to run them are in increasingly short supply. Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute project that 2.1 million manufacturing jobs will go unfilled by 2030, at a cost of around a trillion dollars in lost output. Today, UK-listed IntelliAM AI launches the technology built to make scarce expertise go much further: an end-to-end industrial intelligence platform, developed alongside global engineering leader SKF and already used by half of the world's top 12 food and drink manufacturers. In live trials it has delivered a 215% improvement in mean-time-between-failures at a single site of a major European dairy leader over a 12-month period.

Brightly is now Siemens Asset Management Software: Here’s what that means for you

Since then, we've operated as "a Siemens company" while continuing to build on more than 25 years of experience helping thousands of organizations reduce costs, improve decision-making, and maximize asset resilience.

Today, we're taking the next step in that journey by officially becoming Siemens Asset Management Software.

At first glance, a second brand change in four years might seem unexpected. But this transition isn't about changing who we are — it's about expanding what's possible for any organization looking to transform their asset maintenance and operations.

Introducing Maximo Application Suite 9.2: AI built for asset management that keeps operations running

As enterprises move beyond AI experimentation, the next challenge is operationalizing AI. How to apply intelligence where work happens, connect insight to action, coordinate execution across teams and systems and do it all with the trust and control required for mission-critical environments. For asset-intensive organizations, that operating model comes to life in the domain of physical asset operations.

IFS and Chelsea FC Announce Landmark Agreement to Embed Industrial AI Across Premier League Football Operations

IFS, the global leader in Industrial AI, today announced an agreement with Chelsea Football Club, to make Chelsea a trailblazer in the use of AI within their operations, setting a new benchmark and innovative approach for a Premier League football club. This agreement follows on from February’s announcement of the multi-year global partnership between IFS and Chelsea Football Club.

Sedin Technologies Completes IBM Maximo Application Suite SaaS Migration for Major Asia-Pacific Resort Operator Across Five Properties

Sedin Technologies has completed the migration of enterprise asset management operations for one of Asia's largest integrated resort operators onto IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) SaaS. The project spanned five properties, touched more than 3,000 active users, and was executed with six hours of planned downtime and no disruption to live casino, hotel, or convention operations.