Maintenance software for automotive plants

Keep the line at takt, shift after shift.

Solmex plans the servicing of robots, press lines, paint shop equipment and conveyors, keeps daily operator checks on record, and gets a stopped station back to production faster.

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A worker checks pressed car body panels on a line inside a long automotive plant hall.

What is at stake

When one station stops, the whole line stops with it.

$2.3M

Cost of one hour of downtime at a large automotive plant, by Siemens' estimate

Source: Siemens, The True Cost of Downtime 2024

$695M

Yearly cost of a production line standing idle at a large automotive plant

Source: Siemens, The True Cost of Downtime 2024

3.3x

More downtime at the plants that rely most on reactive repair than at those that rely on it least

Source: NIST, Economics of Manufacturing Machinery Maintenance (2020)

Sound familiar?

Every unplanned stop costs cars off the line.

One robot stops the whole line

A welding robot faults on a dress pack cable. Every station behind it starves, and the shift misses its count before anyone finds the cause.

Daily checks happen, maybe

Operators are meant to clean, lubricate and check their stations every shift. The sheets come back blank or ticked in a hurry at the end of the day.

Customer audits need proof

An OEM auditor asks for the maintenance history of a press line. The answer is spread across spreadsheets, logbooks and one engineer's laptop.

How Solmex fixes it

One system for every station, from body shop to final assembly.

Prevent

Service robots and presses on schedule

Set a plan once for robots, press lines, paint booths, ovens and conveyors. Solmex schedules each service by run hours or the calendar and lists the tasks and parts for every interval.

Plans by run hours or by date
Due work visible before the weekend shutdown
Tasks and parts listed on every job

See Preventive Maintenance

Sustain

Daily operator checks that really happen

Cleaning, lubrication and short checks are logged per station by the team that did them. Solmex shows which stations are up to date and which have been missed.

Daily and weekly jobs per station
Missed jobs shown as overdue
Logged from a phone at the station

See Routine Maintenance

Respond

Get a stopped station running again

Any operator reports a fault from the QR code on the station. Maintenance sees it with a photo, downtime runs from the moment it was reported, and failure codes show which faults keep returning.

Report a fault in seconds by QR
Downtime counted from the report
Repeat faults visible by failure code

See Breakdowns

Your numbers

What is unplanned downtime costing you?

Move the sliders to match your operation. The starting values are typical for the sector, not a promise.

Critical assets (robots, presses, paint shop, conveyors)

Hours of unplanned downtime per asset, per year

Cost of one hour of downtime on one asset

Unplanned downtime costs you about $0

Planned maintenance that avoids 30% of it is worth $0

An estimate from your own inputs. The 30% is set below published results on purpose: NIST found 44% less downtime at plants that invested more in preventive and predictive maintenance.

No risk to try

Start small. Keep your data. Leave any time.

Free to start, free to stay

Every account gets 14 days of the Business plan. After that, one user and up to 25 assets stay free with no time limit.

Anyone can report a problem

Operators, cleaners and tenants report faults by scanning a QR code. People who only report are free on every plan.

Your data stays yours

Export every record to Excel whenever you like, or take a full export of the whole account. Nothing is locked in.

Private and controlled

Your company's records are kept apart from every other customer's, every change is logged, and you decide who can see and do what.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Does Solmex help with customer and IATF 16949 audits?

It keeps the records an auditor asks for. Every service, check and repair is stored against the machine with the person, the date and time, and any photos or signatures. You can show a press line's full history in seconds or export it to Excel. Certification stays with your quality team.

Can operators log their own daily checks?

Yes. Short recurring jobs such as cleaning, lubrication and visual checks are set per station with how often they are due. The team logs them from a phone at the station, and anything missed shows as overdue for the supervisor.

Does Solmex connect to our robots or PLCs?

Yes, through an integration built for you. We connect Solmex to your robot controllers, PLCs or sensors as a separate project, scoped to your lines and priced separately. Without one, hour meter and process readings are entered by people from a phone or a daily entry grid, which works the same on a new robot cell and a twenty-year-old press.

How long does it take to get started?

Most plants start with one line in a day or two. Import the equipment list from Excel, set up service plans for the critical stations, and add QR labels so operators can report faults. Every new account gets 14 days of the Business plan free, with no card needed.