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Manufacturing CMMS software to get lines running

Operators scan the machine's QR code and report with a photo, no app or login. Technicians work assigned jobs on Android.

A FixAhead QR label for Injection Press P-06 in Cell 2, and the public report form it opens with Jamal Pruitt's concern Hydraulic oil spraying at P-06 clamp and its photo.
An operator's machine report, with its photo and location

Show the PM record when an auditor asks

Each machine keeps its PM and repair history, photos, and signed reports, ready for an ISO 9001, IATF 16949, or food-safety audit.

How to check that preventive maintenance is really done
Injection Press P-06's recent work orders, its 500-hour PM Low and Completed and the burst hose repair High and Closed, over its PM compliance at 100 percent.
A machine's PM history and signed work-order report

Service each machine by date or running hours

Set a calendar PM or an hour-meter trigger, such as a 500-hour service, and its work order arrives before the due date. When you pay by assets, your whole maintenance team gets logins.

See which machines stop the line

MTBF and MTTR show repeat failures and repair times, while each machine's record shows total downtime from breakdowns.

How a twelve-press molder would run it

Say you run maintenance for a custom injection molder: one plant, 64 people on two shifts, and twelve presses in two cells, with four technicians, one of them on second shift. Each cell and its presses sit in the location tree, beside the robots, conveyors, resin dryers, chiller, and compressor that keep them running.

  • Operators report on either shift. A first-shift press lead or a second-shift operator scans the press's QR code and reports with no account.
  • Parts planned before the job. Plan the hose or heater band on the work order, and the technician records what was used against it.
  • Critical spares marked. Flag the parts a press can't run without, and see which one is on order at zero stock.
Injection Press P-06 on the molding floor, with the plant's asset tree over it: the Molding Floor's Cell 1 and Cell 2, Cell 2 holding Injection Press P-06 and P-07, Sprue Picker R-06 and Conveyor CV-06.

Free maintenance templates

Checklists and forms for your trade's equipment, each ready to download and use.