FastMaint plant maintenance software: built so your technicians actually use it
Most maintenance software fails for a boring reason: the technicians stop opening it. FastMaint CMMS is learned in days, runs in our cloud or on your own server, and has kept plants on schedule since 2002.
No credit card. Load your own equipment and see whether your team uses it.
Trusted by plants and industrial sites since 2002
Plant maintenance software that covers the whole job
- Preventive maintenance by date or meter reading, so the check happens before the breakdown
- Work orders printed or emailed to technicians, with pictures and instructions
- Spare parts, reorder points, vendors and purchasing in the same system
- Shift calendars for day shift, night shift and shutdown days
- Maintenance requests from machine operators by email (Professional, Web and Cloud)
- Import equipment, spare parts and tasks from Excel, and be running in days
- FastMaint Cloud hosted by us, or a one-time license on your own Windows PC or server
Prefer to install it on your own PC or server? Download the Windows trial.
How FastMaint plant maintenance software keeps your equipment running
Built for a plant, not an enterprise rollout
Your plant is production lines, machines and the parts inside them. FastMaint models it that way: equipment and sub-equipment in a hierarchy, with locations that can carry their own work orders. Maintenance costs are tracked by equipment, department and location, so you can see what a line really costs to keep running.
It suits manufacturing plants, process industries such as refining and chemicals, power plants and utilities, with a maintenance team of anything from two people to ten or more.
There is no implementation project. Most teams are scheduling real work within days.
Preventive maintenance that keeps to the schedule
Preventive maintenance is why most plants buy a CMMS. In FastMaint it is in every edition, never an upgrade.
Schedule a task by time, say every four months. By meter reading, say after every 300 units produced. When an alarm is reported. Or a set time after another job is completed, so the follow-up inspection happens after the overhaul and not on a guess.
When a machine breaks down, raise the unplanned job from your task library and it goes on the same schedule as everything else.
Example maintenance task to be done monthly
Schedules that follow your shifts and shutdowns
Maintenance does not happen on a clean calendar. Keep one calendar for regular working days, another for the second shift, a third for nights and a fourth for plant shutdown days.
FastMaint moves work off holidays and days off, shows schedule conflicts, and warns you when the person assigned will not be working. Tie a calendar to a machine and its run hours drive the preventive maintenance.
Work orders nobody can lose
FastMaint creates the work orders from your schedule. Technicians and outside contractors get them printed or by email, with pictures and step-by-step instructions on the page, so the job is done the same way every time.
Reminders go out when a job is past due, and every completed job goes into the equipment’s history.
Operators report problems without learning new software
Machine operators and other departments send maintenance requests by email. They need no login and no training, and they get status updates by email as the work moves along.
You review each request and turn it into a work order or decline it, so nothing gets lost on a sticky note. Email requests are in FastMaint Professional, Web and Cloud. A browser request form is built into Web and Cloud and is an add-on for Professional.
Reports that answer what the plant manager asks
What did that line cost us last quarter? Are breakdowns going up or down? FastMaint’s reports cover maintenance costs, spare parts usage and equipment downtime, and the one-page Statistics report shows where you stand at a glance.
Most reports can be changed to your own format, and you can build your own with the report editor: add custom fields, your logo and graphs. FastMaint Web and Cloud can also email reports on a schedule.
David Cook at M-I Swaco: “I have been able to see a downward trend in equipment break downs and spare parts usage.”
Set up in days from the spreadsheets you already have
Most plants already have an equipment list in Excel. Import it, along with spare parts and job instructions, and skip weeks of typing. A step-by-step wizard maps your columns to the right fields, and running the import again updates what is already there.
You can export too, for example last quarter’s work orders for more analysis.
Is FastMaint right for your plant?
FastMaint is for one site with a maintenance team of anything from two people to ten or more, and often nobody whose job title contains “IT”. If that is your plant, it fits.
Run it as FastMaint Cloud, where we host it and your team signs in from a computer, tablet or phone. Or install FastMaint Web on your own server, or Professional or Standard on Windows computers, which keep working when the internet doesn’t. Start one way and move to another later.
Four of our five published case-study customers have used FastMaint for more than ten years. At Father Sam’s Bakery, managing maintenance tasks went from 10 hours a week to 4.
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Plant maintenance software: questions buyers ask
Plant maintenance software, also called a CMMS, schedules preventive maintenance, issues and tracks work orders, and keeps records of equipment, spare parts and costs for a manufacturing or process plant. FastMaint CMMS does this for a single site and is typically learned in days.
Yes. FastMaint Standard and Professional install on Windows computers and FastMaint Web installs on your own server. They run on your network and do not need an internet connection. If you would rather not run anything yourself, FastMaint Cloud is the same software hosted by us.
No. Preventive maintenance scheduling by date or meter reading, work orders, equipment records, spare parts, purchasing and reports are in every edition.
Days for a typical small team. Import your equipment and spare parts from Excel, set up the preventive maintenance tasks you already do, and start issuing work orders. There is no implementation project.
FastMaint Standard is a one-time license fee of $2,500 for a single user. Professional and Web start at $6,000 one-time, depending on the number of users. FastMaint Cloud starts at $100 a month. Annual maintenance, which covers updates and support, is optional for the installed editions and included with Cloud.
Yes. The trial is the complete product for 30 days, with no credit card. If you buy, the equipment, schedules and work orders you set up carry over when you enter a license key.
Manufacturing plants, refineries and other process industries, food production, and power and water utilities. Customers include Vertex Refining, Father Sam’s Bakery, Pepsico’s pilot plant, JB Weld and the City of Boulder water treatment plant.
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