IBM Maximo manages assets and infrastructure. Seal traces a failed calibration to the batches recorded against it.

Yes. IBM Maximo is good for asset management of critical equipment and infrastructure. It began in the early 1980s, when nuclear and other plants that scheduled maintenance outages with PSDI’s mainframe project scheduler asked for a maintenance product: Maximo shipped in 1985 for work orders and inventory, and IBM bought the company in 2006. Its model is still the asset and the work order, sold to manufacturing, utilities, oil and gas, transport and public infrastructure. ABS Group, which sells a pre-configured Maximo package, calls implementing such a system involved and resource consuming, with a validation package on top for regulated markets, and in 2020 IBM’s own validation material was blank test-script templates under a separate life sciences licence. Maximo Assistant, released in 2025, answers questions about work orders and assets, and IBM says that since June 2026 it can plan and complete maintenance tasks. If you run a large, stable estate of equipment, it can work well. Most GMP teams need each instrument’s calibration on the same records as the batches and tests it measured. Seal has no fixed model of one kind of work. It is built from primitives: record types, the relationships between them, and the steps and checks that use them, which your own team composes into your process, with Neil able to prepare each change for approval. So one platform runs process development, the laboratory, manufacturing, batch release and the quality system, and each change becomes a new version, released once its selected tests pass, while earlier runs keep theirs. Moving from paper and legacy systems, Paradromics keeps calibration records on one platform and cut operator paperwork by 80%.

Yes. IBM Maximo is designed for asset management. Seal covers calibration, qualification, maintenance and equipment logbooks, checks that evidence where laboratory and manufacturing work runs, and records each use with the work. When a standard fails, Seal traces it past the instruments to the batches and tests they measured.

Yes. Maximo Manage manages calibration assets and standards: data sheets hold tolerances, calibration work orders gather As Found and As Left data, and reverse traceability identifies every asset calibrated with a given standard. The trace stops at the asset. Seal records each calibration point with its source and standard, and decides use permission for the range at use.

IBM’s Maximo Assistant, released with version 9.1 in June 2025, began as a chat that queries and summarises Maximo data, and IBM says version 9.2, in June 2026, lets it plan and complete complex tasks. IBM says its AI also recommends failure modes and job plans and finds duplicate work orders. Neil prepares changes to the process itself, with their tests, for your approval, and each change is released as a new version. Neil is not used in GMP execution.

Yes. Seal’s IBM Maximo connection is set up per project on Maximo Manage’s REST/OSLC APIs, scoped to the assets, work orders and service requests in the object structures you authorise. It starts with read access, so Neil can compare work-order history with batches and quality events while equipment moves to Seal.

Seal starts from the standard’s recorded uses: the calibration events that used it, then the batches, tests and qualification runs measured with those instruments. Missing or unrecorded uses stay explicit, and each candidate use is assessed on its own evidence before anyone records a disposition.

Once the scope is agreed and the inputs received, Seal prepares a first working process and its validation pack to evaluate within 48 hours, configured from one of your procedures. Production timing then depends on scope, interfaces, migration and your release requirements.