Industries / Food and Beverage

Maintenance software for food and beverage plants

Keep every line running and every audit simple.

Solmex plans your preventive maintenance, records every hygiene and safety check with a name and a time, and gets a stopped line back into production faster.

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Workers in hairnets, masks and gloves handle trays on a food production line beside stainless equipment.

What is at stake

A stopped food line is expensive, and it stops often.

$36,000

Cost of one lost hour of production in a consumer goods plant, by Siemens' estimate

Source: Siemens, The True Cost of Downtime 2024

$10M+

Yearly downtime cost per consumer goods plant, double what it was in 2019

Source: Siemens, The True Cost of Downtime 2024

12% to 18%

Saved by preventive maintenance compared with running equipment until it fails

Source: US Department of Energy, O&M Best Practices Guide

Sound familiar?

Maintenance on paper costs you output.

Lines stop without warning

A worn seal or a failed motor stops the line mid-shift. Product waits, people wait, and the order ships late.

Audits mean digging through folders

When an auditor asks for last month's sanitation or calibration records, someone loses a day finding sheets that may not be signed.

Cold room failures destroy stock

A cold room that drifts overnight can cost a full load of ingredients. Nobody knew the compressor was overdue for service.

How Solmex fixes it

One system for the plant, from the line to the audit.

Prevent

Service equipment before it fails

Set a plan once for fillers, ovens, chillers and compressors. Solmex schedules each service by run hours or the calendar and shows the team what is due today.

Plans by run hours or by date
Due and overdue work in one list
Steps and parts listed on every job

See Preventive Maintenance

Prove

Every check signed, every record found

Sanitation, calibration and safety checks run from a phone at the equipment. Each result carries a name, a time and a photo, and a failed item opens a job straight away.

Digital checklists with photos and signatures
A failed check becomes a tracked job
Full history per asset, ready for any audit

See Inspections

Respond

Get a stopped line back faster

Anyone on the floor reports a fault from the QR code on the machine. Maintenance sees it at once, with the photo and the location, and downtime is counted from the moment it was reported.

Report a problem in seconds by QR code
Downtime measured automatically
Spare parts checked before anyone walks out

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 (lines, ovens, compressors, cold rooms)

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 food safety audits?

Yes. Every inspection, sanitation check and service is recorded against the asset with the person, the date and time, and any photos. You can pull the full history of a line or a cold room in seconds and export it for an auditor. Solmex keeps the records; certification stays with your quality team.

Can we schedule maintenance by run hours instead of dates?

Yes. A service plan can be based on run hours, kilometres or the calendar, and each interval has its own task list and parts. Solmex reads the latest meter reading and shows what is due, due soon or overdue.

How do operators report a problem?

Each machine gets a QR label. Anyone can scan it with a phone and report a fault with a photo, without needing an account. People who only report problems are free on every plan.

How long does it take to get started?

Most plants start with their critical assets in a day or two. Import your asset list from Excel, set up service plans, and add people when you are ready. Every new account gets 14 days of the Business plan free, with no card needed.