MaintainX or Limble for maintenance + Tulip for production = two tablets at every workstation and two contracts at the finance meeting. Ignite Lean ships the CMMS on the same shell. Same asset tree, same operators, same data. When the kiosk catches downtime, the work order is already in the queue before maintenance has been paged.
A CMMS is only as good as its asset list. Every press, lathe, fixture, oven, and forklift gets one row — manufacturer, model, serial, location, criticality, photo. Each asset is bound to a workstation on the canvas you already built for production, so the kiosk knows which equipment is running each job. Print the QR sticker, slap it on the machine, scan to open the asset with a prefilled work-order form.
Request → open → in-progress → complete → verified → closed. Each transition is attributed and timestamped — your MTTR is real, not estimated. A live timer ticks while the tech is on the WO; parts and labor get charged automatically as they're consumed. The closeout forces a root cause + failure code so the next analyst can find the pattern. No half-written WOs left in someone's notebook.
A PM template ("Quarterly grease all bearings on the bridle press") plus a schedule ("every 90 days OR every 250 run-hours, whichever first") plus an asset. A nightly cron checks each schedule and generates the work order. The queue surfaces the upcoming list with warning windows so nothing fires red. Compliance % is computed from the actual completion timestamps — not a self-reported number on a Monday morning.
Operator on the kiosk taps "Report problem" — the form is already prefilled with the station, the running asset, the downtime reason, the current build context, and the operator name. They tap submit. A draft WO is in the maintenance queue before they've walked back to the bench. No retyping in MaintainX. No "wait, which line was it on?". The downtime event and the work order are the same record.
MRO parts get the same treatment as production parts — except with a min, reorder point, and current quantity. When a tech consumes a part on a WO, on-hand drops. Crossing the reorder point flags a purchase suggestion in the unified Tasks inbox. Movements (in / out / adjust / transfer) all log to a per-part history with the WO they came from. Stockout-driven downtime is one of the biggest hidden costs in SMB manufacturing — this is how you stop it.
MTBF (mean time between failures), MTTR (mean time to repair), and PM compliance %. All three computed from the WO + downtime data you just collected — no manual entry, no spreadsheet glue. World-class targets are baked in (MTBF trending up, MTTR under 4 hours, compliance > 90%) so the dashboard tells leadership at a glance whether the program is paying for itself. Per asset, per line, per plant. Drill down to the underlying WOs in one tap.
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