Why use AIP software?
When data drives decisions, every investment counts. AIP is a data-driven process that helps organizations prioritize capital investments and forecast funding needs.
AIP software gives asset-intensive organizations real-time visibility into asset health, enabling teams to forecast future equipment needs, align capital investments with production goals and extend the lifespan of the most critical equipment.
What can our AIP solutions do for you?
By supporting smarter, data-driven decision-making, Siemens’ AIP software helps you maximize asset lifecycles and create a long-term financial plan.
Prioritize assets
Maintain the reliability and availability of your assets by analyzing usage data to prioritize necessary investments in preventive maintenance, equipment upgrades and replacements.
Justify funding
Provide more clarity to key stakeholders and justify funding by using asset and facilities data to prioritize capital investments, strengthen financial reporting, enhance compliance and improve profitability.
Maximize ROI
Make more impactful financial decisions backed by data and insights. Address sustainability and safety initiatives by transparently showcasing associated costs and ROIs.
Improve outcomes
Identify cost-effective maintenance solutions and minimize unnecessary expenditures to help reduce operational costs while improving outcomes for both short- and long-term asset needs.
Explore products with AIP capabilities
Predictor
Visualize decisions across assets, facilities and infrastructure, using AI and predictive modeling to forecast, analyze budget utilization and optimize capital planning.
Origin
Make confident decisions about your assets and resources. Our AI-powered asset health and capital planning solution provides historical data and advanced insights.
Discover how others use asset investment planning
Maximizing time and labor with smarter asset management
Pepsi Bottling Ventures uses our asset management software to understand where they're spending money. They can see how much they’re spending on equipment and projects, and plan parts orders based on historical trends.
Transforming asset planning and capital budgeting
The YMCA of Delaware leverages our AIP software to make budgetary decisions, saving more than $1.5 million over 10 years. They also use the data intelligence tool to present their annual report more visually.
Increasing annual facilities funding by 25%
McLaren Health Care transformed its capital planning process and empowered data-driven decision-making. “People trust our data [and] give us the funding we need,” says the Corporate Director of Facilities and Energy.
Frequently asked questions
How does AIP integrate with a CMMS?
AIP, or asset investment planning, uses data from systems like your CMMS to guide long-term capital decisions. It helps organizations determine where to invest, when to act, and how to allocate budgets for maximum impact.
With modern AIP software solutions, operations and finance teams can anticipate when assets will require repair or replacement and model different funding scenarios to determine their smartest course of action. This leads to fewer surprise expenses, better justification for investment plans, and more control over long-term costs.
What are the benefits of combining CMMS and AIP?
By combining CMMS and AIP, organizations can move from reactive maintenance and fragmented planning to a fully connected, data-driven approach that increases asset performance, resilience, and long-term value.
Who is AIP for?
AIP is a powerful strategy for anyone that manages a complex asset portfolio and is focused on optimizing their investments to maintain long-term asset reliability and efficiency.
Government — Prioritize infrastructure projects, forecast budgets and improve community safety and stability.
Education — Identify critical assets, align investments with long-term goals and maintain financial transparency and compliance.
Manufacturing — Reduce unplanned downtime, minimize production waste and simplify capital planning.
Healthcare — Extend asset life, improve equipment reliability, reduce operational costs and support regulatory compliance with smarter investment decisions.
Learn how asset investment planning serves industries with complex infrastructure and long-term capital needs.
How can AIP support your organization?
AIP has emerged as a valuable tool for finance and operations leaders across numerous industries, enabling them to shift from reactive responses to proactive and preventive maintenance and investment decisions.
How can facilities condition assessments (FCA) support asset investment planning (AIP)?
Facilities condition assessments (FCA) provide a comprehensive, accurate baseline for asset health. An FCA documents physical assets and evaluates condition, risk of failure and associated costs
It's beneficial to conduct an FCA before leveraging CMMS for maintenance or finance decisions. By continuously updating your CMMS with work order, inspection and maintenance activities, you can keep asset data current for reliable insights to support AIP capital investment decisions.