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

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