Automate the Deployment of Maximo Visual Inspection on IBM Cloud Satellite
With IBM technology, you can bring enterprise-ready computer vision and AI software to a distributed cloud model to run on edge and easily manage the deployment of your software on top of a Container Orchestration Platform.
This article demonstrates the key points of combining MVI with IBM Cloud Satellite. The last section of the article introduces a hands-on lab that you can apply in a live environment. You can automate the installation of a complete stack, all the way from infrastructure up to MVI deployment on IBM Cloud Satellite.
The lab aims to simplify and streamline the process of deploying MVI on any infrastructure to deliver software faster, with better quality, and more efficiently.
Introducing IBM Cloud Satellite
IBM Cloud Satellite is a distributed cloud computing solution that extends the capabilities of IBM Cloud to any environment, enabling organizations to deploy and manage applications securely across multiple locations and infrastructures.
Introducing Maximo Visual Inspection
Maximo Visual Inspection (MVI) is an advanced software solution that utilizes artificial intelligence and computer vision to enable real-time analysis and interpretation of visual data for streamlined inspection and maintenance processes.
What benefits can MVI & IBM Cloud Satellite bring together?
You can combine the power of Maximo Visual Inspection with the flexibility and scalability of IBM Cloud Satellite. This unique integration brings the following benefits to your organization:
- Leverage MVI’s advanced inspection and capabilities while maintaining control over your organization's data and infrastructure.
- Securely process and analyze visual data from a wide range of sources, including cameras, drones, and IoT devices, regardless of their location.
- Extend your inspection capabilities to remote or isolated environments, enabling real-time monitoring and proactive maintenance strategies.
- Confidently manage visual inspection workflows with enhanced security, agility, and scalability, unlocking new levels of operational efficiency and effectiveness.
In addition to the points above, you can achieve many of the benefits of IBM Cloud Satellite such as Data Sovereignty and Compliance, Simplified Application Modernization, Consistent Operations, and more!
Use cases
Maximo Visual Inspection has plenty of use cases in various industries, like manufacturing, automotive, civil infrastructure, telecom, etc... Use cases such as:
- Build AI models for high-resolution images to detect cracks and rust, with the ability to measure and gauge the severity of the defect.
- Integration capability with collaborative robots to identify & filter out defective components before shipping.
- Detect and correct automobile body defects during the production process.
About the Tutorial
You can visit the GitHub repo to install Maximo Visual Inspection on IBM Cloud Satellite. This repository focuses on the automation of setting up the complete stack to run Maximo Visual Inspection on IBM Cloud Satellite, reducing the time spent to bring a live environment from weeks to hours!
You can follow the steps in the tutorial to start a small environment or even customize the installation to meet your business requirements.
In summary, the automation performs the following tasks:
1- Set up your choice of infrastructure
2- Set up your IBM Cloud Satellite Location
3- Create Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud cluster and set up the registry and storage
4- Install Maximo core application
5- Install Maximo Visual Inspection
The lab environment runs on VPC on IBM Cloud for demo purposes. However, you can adjust it and use the components you want for your business.
The lab is based on the MAS DevOps Collection, an Ansible collection to install different MAS Applications.
