Complex challenges
Manufacturers are optimizing plant conditions, maximizing asset uptime and increasing productivity to stay competitive. At the same time, they are navigating environmental, social and governance (ESG) challenges and workforce needs.
Lack of asset insights
In a fast-paced manufacturing environment, numerous machines, personnel, and processes operate simultaneously. Monitoring asset performance in real time can be challenging, and minor issues can quickly escalate into serious problems. To maintain control and avoid costly disruptions, a robust AI-driven Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution is essential. It provides a clear overview of your planned preventive maintenance and related activities—helping to enhance efficiency and minimize downtime.
Operational efficiency
Everything depends on asset reliability. Without that assurance, productivity will take a hit. Data will no longer feed into your system, making it difficult to analyze efficiency. Implementing an EAM system transforms reactive maintenance into a strategic, data-driven process—ensuring that asset reliability underpins operational success and informed decision-making.
Compliance with HSE regulations
Managing health, safety, and environment (HSE) in an active facility is challenging, especially without clear oversight of risk management practices, making regulatory compliance harder to prove. Integrating HSE features within an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system enhances visibility, streamlines compliance tracking, and embeds safety into daily operations. This integration helps reduce incidents, improves accountability, and ensures maintenance activities align with safety standards—making it a smart, proactive approach to managing both asset performance and workplace safety.
Manage enterprise assets for strategic advantages
Ultimo helps manufacturers plan for the future. The cloud-based EAM solution delivers real-time tracking, visual dashboards and best-of-breed integrations across your enterprise.
Flexible and out of the box
Discover new possibilities with your assets. Your people can easily access the cloud-based Ultimo EAM solution––from any desktop or mobile device––to quickly connect with best practices for manufacturing.
Effectively monitor performance
Make more informed decisions faster with Ultimo’s PowerBI integration. A range of reports help you monitor manufacturing operations and delve into business intelligence for improved performance.
Unparalleled ROI
Realize the value of your assets with Ultimo. EAM is a transformational lever in manufacturing investments. Higher uptime, controlled costs and worker safety contribute to an organization’s strategic goals.
Ultimo delivers
Turn challenges into opportunities
Supply chain issues, rising costs and regulatory changes put manufacturers under pressure. Ultimo is a pure-play EAM solution to boost efficiency, increase uptime and control costs. It is your key to unlocking profitability and resiliency.
Customer stories:
Ultimo in action
ConMet®
ConMet® installed its first Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution in 2018 as part of a broader commitment to achieving the highest standards of production excellence.
Dr. Schär
Giant food manufacturer Dr. Schär transformed its global production by revolutionizing their maintenance management across 12 production sites with Ultimo EAM software.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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EAM in manufacturing is enterprise asset management of production machinery, utilities, facilities, and supporting equipment across plants. It supports preventive and proactive maintenance, work order execution, reliability analysis, spare parts control, compliance, and performance reporting. EAM helps manufacturers protect uptime, reduce unplanned stoppages, and make informed decisions about repair, replacement, and capital investment.
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Manufacturers cannot run modern operations on spreadsheets, paper work orders, or disconnected maintenance tools. EAM software is the system of record for every production asset across its lifecycle: acquisition, commissioning, preventive and proactive maintenance, work orders, spare parts, HSE, and retirement. Ultimo delivers AI-Embedded EAM, the first EAM solution with agentic AI shipped in production, with intelligence inside the everyday work rather than a separate analytics tool. Customers report 40% downtime reduction (Kisuma Chemicals via FMECA), 25% efficiency gains, and 10% maintenance cost savings.
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Unplanned downtime is the single biggest destroyer of manufacturing margin. Ultimo addresses it on four fronts: proactive maintenance plans replace reactive firefighting, condition-based maintenance feeds IoT and sensor data into the work order queue, AI-assisted prioritization sequences tickets against criticality and parts availability, and spare parts visibility prevents stock-out delays. Customer outcomes include 40% downtime reduction at Kisuma Chemicals via FMECA and technical efficiency improvements from 94% to 96% at Ysco, delivering hundreds of thousands in annual cost savings.
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Manufacturers run on a connected stack. ERP holds finance and procurement, MES runs production execution, IoT and SCADA carry the live signals from the line. Ultimo connects with any type of software the manufacturing estate relies on. Certified SAP S/4HANA integration is standard, alongside off-the-shelf integrations into other ERP systems, MES, IoT, SCADA, Asset Performance Management, Document Management, Connected Worker, CAD, BIM, and GIS. Power BI integration brings cross-departmental dashboards into the same intelligence layer. Data flows back so AI-driven suggestions and work orders reflect the live state of the line.
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ROI timing depends on the maturity stage at the start, the scope at go-live, and how aggressively the team activates progressive intelligence. Customer outcomes give a credible benchmark: Zandvliet reached ROI payback in 6 months, Kisuma Chemicals delivered 40% downtime reduction via FMECA, Ysco improved technical efficiency from 94% to 96%, Montanwerke Brixlegg secured 5% purchasing savings, and Broshuis recovered more than one full FTE through structured asset data. Value lands inside the first year, and every additional capability activated compounds returns rather than restarting the investment cycle.
