Eight industries, one workflow
In every case the loop is the same: someone reports a problem, the report becomes a work order, a technician closes it from the phone with a checklist and photos, and the asset history grows. What repeats gets scheduled once as preventive maintenance and generates itself. The pages below show how that loop lands in each business.
| Industry | What usually breaks | Who reports it | What PM looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing and workshops | Compressors, conveyors, packaging lines, CNC machines | Operators, shift leads | By calendar or by running hours; MTTR on corrective work |
| Facility management | Elevators, HVAC, fire systems, pumps, generators | Building occupants by QR code | One plan per installation, mandatory checklists, signed PDF reports |
| Restaurants and commercial kitchens | Walk-in coolers, hoods, fryers, dishwashers, HVAC | Kitchen and floor staff by QR code | Refrigeration, hoods and filters on a schedule; reports for health inspections |
| Retail chains | Automatic doors, signage, refrigerated displays, POS, HVAC | Store managers by QR code | Per-store plans; reports filtered by site |
| Hotels | Room HVAC, hot water, pool, kitchen, laundry, elevators | Housekeeping and front desk by QR code | Seasonal plans; history per room and per unit |
| Warehouses and logistics | Forklifts, dock levelers, high-speed doors, cold rooms | Shift staff by QR code | Meter-based: every N running hours on each truck |
| Clinics and care homes | Boilers, HVAC, elevators, kitchen, beds and hoists | Nursing and care staff by QR code | Mandatory checklists; signed reports for inspections |
| Gyms and sports facilities | Treadmills, strength machines, HVAC, showers, pool | Trainers and front desk by QR code | HVAC, hot water and filters on a schedule; history per machine |
What if yours is not on the list?
These pages are examples, not a boundary. The loop (equipment that fails, people who notice, inspections that repeat, work that must be provable) is the same in many more places. If yours resembles one of the eight, start there:
- Schools, colleges and universities: many buildings, many small failures, a small team, boilers and HVAC on a schedule. Closest page: facility management.
- Local government and municipal buildings: a crew that fixes everything and records nothing, reports needed for the council. Closest page: facility management.
- Farms, wineries and food processing: machines that cannot stop mid-season, running hours that matter more than calendar months. Closest pages: manufacturing and workshops and warehouses and logistics.
- Laboratories and dental practices: infrastructure and installations work like a clinic; regulated calibration of medical devices does not belong here. Closest page: clinics and care homes.
- Campsites, holiday rentals and student housing: rooms, hot water, pools and grounds, reported by the people who clean and check them. Closest page: hotels.
- Bakeries, laundries, breweries, shopping centers, theaters and museums, property managers, and maintenance contractors who serve third parties: pick the page whose vocabulary sounds most like yours.
If none of them fits, tell us and we will say honestly whether we are a match, or open the demo and check it yourself in ten minutes.
Is the application configured differently per industry?
No. There is one application, and you shape it with your own sites, locations, asset categories, work types and checklist templates. The industry pages describe how teams in that business typically set it up; nothing on them is a separate module or a separate price.
We have several very different sites (a plant and offices, say). Does that work?
Yes. Each site has its own locations and assets, and reports can be filtered by site. Preventive plans can cover assets on several sites and generate one work order per asset.
Our maintenance is done by outside contractors. Is a CMMS still useful?
Yes, and there is a feature built for it. You register the contractor with one or more email addresses and send them the work order as a PDF from the order itself. They need no account and do not count as users, and the order records who it was sent to and when. See external contractors.
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