Maintenance
Keep running what puts food on the table.
Almost everything starts here. The breakdown that has to be fixed today, the service due in three weeks, the inspection somebody has to sign every morning, and a team's whole week, which does not fit in one person's head.
Work Orders
What has to be done, with a name and a date
Preventive
What is due before it breaks
Checklists
The inspection that alerts on its own
Planning
The team's week, on one screen
Work Orders
The job sheet that stops living in someone's head.
An order carries who does it, for which machine, when it is due and at what priority. It is opened by hand, generated by a preventive plan, or born from a report somebody raised on their phone. And it does not die when it closes: it stays attached to the asset, so two years from now that machine's record still tells you what happened to it.
- Corrective or preventive
- With an owner, a date and a priority
- With its checklist inside, if it has one
- And the history stays on the asset
Activo
SBM blow moulder, line 1
Type
Corrective
Priority
High
Owner
Marta
Due
In 2 days
Material
Example data
Planned and used are not the same number.
While the order is open, material is a forecast: what somebody thinks will be needed. Only closing it with what was actually used deducts from the store. It sounds like a detail and it is not: confusing the two is how a store ends up claiming there are four bearings when there are none.
Preventive Maintenance
Two ways of counting time, because machines do not age alike.
A fire extinguisher is checked every six months whether anyone touches it or not. A motor is different: what wears it out are the hours it has been turning, and two identical motors in the same hall can run at very different rates. So a plan is scheduled by calendar or by real use, and each is applied where it makes sense.
Every X days
The service that is due because it is due. Extinguishers, first aid kits, calibrations, everything that runs against a date and not against work done.
When the meter says so
Running hours, kilometres or cycles. The plan triggers on the reading, so the machine that works more gets serviced more, and the one that sat idle does not burn a service for nothing.
When a plan comes due it does not send you a reminder: it creates the work order. It shows up in the list, in the planning board and in the "My day" of whoever it is assigned to, like any other. And if a machine sits idle for a season, the plan is paused without losing its history.
- By calendar or by meter
- It creates the order, not a reminder
- Paused without losing its history
- And it feeds preventive compliance
Active plans
4- 38 h to go
Motor service every 500 h
By meter
- 12 September
Scale calibration
Every 180 days
- 4 October
Extinguisher inspection
Every 180 days
- Overdue
Blow moulder L1 lubrication
Every 30 days
When due, each one creates its order
Checklists
The one thing in FluX that alerts you with nobody watching.
An ordinary checklist is a set of boxes: if nobody reads it afterwards, what was ticked hardly matters. FluX checklists accept a range on the points that carry a number. If a bearing has to sit between 45 and 70 degrees and the technician writes 82, the alert goes out to the person in charge right then, from the phone, with no connection needed.
And we say it plainly because it is what it is: this is the only automatic alert in the product. Everything else warns because somebody scheduled it or because a routine checks it. This one fires on its own, the moment the number falls outside.
- Minimum and maximum per point
- The alert goes out as the value is entered
- Filled in inside the order
- And the reading stays in the history
Daily inspection checklist
Bearing temperature
84 °C
Defined range: 45 to 70 °C
Planning
The team's week, without the whiteboard in the corridor.
Two views and no more: the week, for whoever assigns, and "Today", for whoever executes. You see who is overloaded and who is not, what was left unassigned, and what is coming from preventive plans even before its order exists, drawn as a projection so nobody plans on top of something that is going to land anyway.
- Week to assign, Today to execute
- Each technician's load, in plain sight
- Preventive work, projected before it exists
- And whatever nobody took, in its tray
Planning the week
- Marta3Mañana
- Carlos4Mañana
- Antonio2Tarde
And if you would rather the AI proposed it.
The Smart Planner looks at the open orders and the available team and proposes the whole week, with the reason for each assignment beside it. You apply or discard. It is part of the AI Center and it is explained in full there.
See the AI CenterShall we look at your preventive plan on the call?
Tell us what you check today and how often, and we will build it in front of you with your machines. In thirty minutes you see whether this removes your spreadsheet.