Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
When work orders live on a clipboard and the PM schedule lives in one planner's head, the maintenance crew spends its week on whatever broke last. 10in6 CMMS gives maintenance the same live view of the machines that production has, so the crew can see what's open, what's overdue and what's in the parts store before the next failure.
What is a CMMS for manufacturing?
A CMMS (computerized maintenance management system) plans, assigns and records maintenance work: work orders, preventive maintenance schedules, spare parts and each machine's history.
In a plant, what matters most is how closely it's tied to production. When andon calls and machine stops can open work, response times get measured and the machines costing the most downtime show up on their own. Otherwise the CMMS only knows what someone remembered to type in.
The problems CMMS solves on the floor
Maintenance is reactive
PM tasks get pushed whenever production is running hot, and each pushed task makes the next breakdown more likely. The crew ends up answering calls instead of working a plan.
No visibility into maintenance load
Leadership doesn't know how many open work orders exist, what's overdue, or which equipment is consuming the most maintenance time and cost.
Issues fall through the cracks
An operator mentions a grinding noise to whoever walks past, or leaves a sticky note on the panel. With nothing to log it in, the report gets lost or made three times over, and the noise becomes a failure.
Every Module in our CMMS
Select any module to explore what it does and how it fits into your maintenance operation.
Work Order Management
Create, assign and close maintenance work orders. A supervisor can open one by hand, or a floor event opens it: an andon call, a failed maintenance check or a reported equipment issue.
- Create work orders manually or automatically from floor events
- Assign to individuals or maintenance teams
- Several people can work one order, each entry stamped with a name and time
- Change log showing who did what and when
- Configurable alerts on creation, assignment, status change, or custom conditions
- Filter by open, in-progress, or completed orders by team or equipment
Digital Maintenance Checks
Your PM checks, run on a device at the machine. Each recurring check has a default assignee, a step-by-step task list with reference photos, and a due date the whole crew can see. Technicians open their assigned checks and work through the steps in order.
- PM checks on any interval, daily to annual
- Step-by-step task lists with reference photos and instructions
- Assign default personnel to each check type
- Technicians see all open, upcoming, and in-progress orders
- Management dashboard for completion rates and on-time performance
- Parts consumption tied to PM checks through Maintenance Inventory
Maintenance Inventory
Every spare part and maintenance supply in the plant: which bin it sits in, which equipment uses it and how many are left. Technicians take parts out against the work order or PM check they are working on, so the count stays current without a trip to update a stock sheet.
- Setup parts with locations and equipment assignments
- Consume parts directly through work orders and PM checks
- Stock levels update as parts are used
- Low-inventory alerts when stock drops below thresholds
- Inventory reports available at any time for any part or location
- Reduces downtime caused by missing parts at time of repair
Issues Tracker
For the problems that keep coming back, like the intermittent stall on Press C that everyone has learned to work around. Each issue gets an owner and a priority, and it is linked to production and downtime data so you can rank issues by the output they cost.
- Log recurring issues with description, priority, and owner
- Connect issues directly to production and downtime data
- Track improvement actions and resolution status
- Replace spreadsheet-based Kaizen and CI tracking
- Focus improvement resources on highest-cost problems first
- Full history of every issue, action taken, and outcome
Andon Calls
When a machine goes down, needs a repair or raises a safety concern, the operator presses one button and the call goes to the technician or maintenance group that covers that area. Each call is timed from the button press to the fix.
- Single button press escalates equipment or maintenance issues immediately
- Routes calls to specific maintenance technicians or teams
- Real-time Andon boards show open calls and response status
- Response time and resolution time tracked per call and technician
- Automatic work order creation from an Andon call
- Full audit trail of every call, response, and resolution
Maintenance Reporting
Downtime, PM completion and repair work, reported machine by machine. This month it might show Weld B with four times the downtime of Press A and most of the maintenance spend, which tells you where the next week of maintenance hours should go.
- Individual machine downtime and availability history over time
- PM compliance rates and on-time performance by equipment
- Work order and maintenance history per asset
- Parts usage tied to specific machines
- Identify the highest-risk and highest-cost equipment
- Built from daily maintenance work, with no separate data entry
What changes when maintenance works from real data
- Work orders on paper and in email, where some get lost
- PM checks missed, done late, no visibility
- Parts discovered missing when equipment is already down
- Equipment failures are always a surprise
- Every WO logged, assigned, tracked, and closed with full history
- Digital checks auto-triggered, step-by-step, tracked for completion
- Real-time inventory with automatic low-stock alerts
- PM schedules and each machine's repair history head off unplanned stops
"10in6 helps us cut through the noise to identify real constraints and focus resources on the right issues."
Production and quality modules on the same machines
Set up around how your plant runs
Standardized platforms expect the plant to change to fit the software. Do-it-yourself platforms leave your team to build and maintain everything. With 10in6, we configure the system around your equipment, codes and reports, and your team runs it day to day.
Your equipment, codes and reports
Andon calls routed by call type to the technicians on your crew, following the escalation each shift uses.
Your team runs it day to day
Operators, downtime and scrap codes, products and targets, shift schedules, checks, alerts, emailed reports and real-time boards are managed by your own people. Everyday changes need no support ticket and no invoice.
A project manager for the bigger things
New machines, new modules and custom reports go through a 10in6 project manager who already knows your deployment, so nothing starts from scratch. If you would rather we made everyday changes too, we can.
Still here years later
The system keeps being refined after go-live, and new capabilities are added without rebuilding it. Some of our customer relationships have run for 12 years, and 97% of customers say they would never go back.
“[Our 10in6 project manager] has been great to work with. He is very responsive, quick to help and provides solutions, whether we have random questions, new requirements or the rare times we have system issues.”
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CMMS questions
- What is a CMMS for manufacturing?
- A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) plans, assigns and records maintenance work: work orders, preventive maintenance schedules, spare parts and each machine's history. In manufacturing, the difference that matters is a connection to production, so that andon calls and downtime can open work, response times are measured, and the machines costing the most downtime are visible without anyone re-typing it.
- What should a CMMS for manufacturing include?
- At minimum: work orders tied to each machine, preventive maintenance checks with on-time tracking, spare parts with minimum levels and low-stock alerts, and reporting by machine (downtime, MTBF and MTTR, PM compliance, parts and labour). For a plant, add a fast way for the line to call maintenance and a place to track recurring problems until they are fixed.
- Should we start with a CMMS or an MES?
- Start where the biggest loss is. If you don't know why machines stop or how much it costs, downtime tracking (part of an MES) usually comes first. If PM lives on paper and repair work gets lost, start with a CMMS. In 10in6 both share the same machines and data, so you can start with either and add the other later. Our buyer's guide covers the choice in more detail.
See the CMMS module applied to your maintenance operation
Tell us how maintenance calls, PMs and work orders are handled today. We'll work out which CMMS modules you'd start with and what they would cost.