#UAE #MRO - IBM and Riyadh-headquartered AI company nybl have announced a collaboration to accelerate AI adoption across critical infrastructure sectors including energy, utilities, and industrial operations via a new integrated visual intelligence solution. The solution combines nybl’s image analytics platform n.vision with IBM’s watsonx AI governance system and IBM Maximo Visual Inspection to analyse large volumes of imagery data from drones and camera feeds, detecting faults, predicting equipment failures, and recommending actions to minimise downtime. The solution bolsters n.vision’s proposition for infrastructure-dependent industries, promising enhanced enterprise operational resilience and efficiency.
SO WHAT? - The new integration of n.vision with watsonx and IBM Maximo Application Suite could accelerate nybl’s inroads into the Middle East’s sizeable Maximo user community. Acquired by IBM in 2006, Maximo uses advanced analytics and IoT to manage the lifecycle of critical equipment and infrastructure, providing insights to support MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) in infrastructure-dependent industries such as oil and gas, energy production, desalination and manufacturing.
Here are some key facts about the collaboration:
IBM and Riyadh-headquartered nybl have announced a collaboration to accelerate AI adoption across critical infrastructure sectors including energy, utilities, and industrial operations via a new visual intelligence solution that integrates nybl’s n.vision with IBM’s Maximo Application Suite.
The n.vision platform analyses large volumes of imagery data including drone and camera feeds to detect faults, predict equipment failures, and recommend prescriptive actions preventing unplanned downtime.
IBM Maximo Visual Inspection automates quality checks and defect detection. Meanwhile, watsonx.governance - a component of IBM’s watsonx AI platform - provides built-in transparency, compliance monitoring, and lifecycle AI management capabilities for enterprise deployments.
The integrated solution targets Maximo’s core sectors such as energy, utilities, and industrial operations, and aims to reduce costs, improve safety outcomes, and enhance overall operational performance through intelligent asset management.
The global market leader in Enterprise Asset Management Software, IBM Maximo has more than 30,000 users in the Middle East region.
The solution combines nybl’s proprietary AI models with a robust data processing engine and intuitive interface, now integrated with Maximo Visual Inspection (MVI). n.vison core modules include ‘Director’, which powers real-time analytics and decision-making, and ‘Stage’, which visualizes insights to enable faster, smarter operational responses.
By combining deep AI functionality with ease of use, the solution empowers organizations to maximise asset uptime, increase reliability, and achieve measurable improvements in efficiency and safety.
The collaboration advances nybl’s goal to export homegrown innovation from the Middle East globally, making the n.vision solution available to IBM enterprise customers worldwide via watsonx.
ZOOM OUT - The IBM collaboration for IBM Maximo could prove to be a strategic move for nybl. To-date the company’s n.vision platform has enjoyed the most success in providing customer experience analytics. The platform is able to analyses customer journeys, sentiment, and interactions in retail and hospitality environments, tracking staff performance, queue management, and demographic movement patterns to optimise service delivery and reduce customer churn. By integrating with IBM’s Maximo Visual Inspection capabilities, nybl now bolsters its proposition for industrial infrastructure monitoring, leveraging its core proprietary AI technologies to open up new potential across critical sectors such as energy and utilities.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]