Industries / Manufacturing

Maintenance software for manufacturing plants

Fewer stoppages, and every machine under control.

Solmex plans the servicing of your presses, extruders, compressors and lines, gets every breakdown to a technician quickly, and shows what each machine costs you in spare parts.

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A machinist in a blue hard hat operates a large lathe on a factory floor.

What is at stake

Every hour a line stands still costs output and margin.

$119 billion

Lost every year by US manufacturers to maintenance problems that could have been prevented

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

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)

27 hours

Of unplanned downtime an average large plant loses every month, by Siemens' estimate

Source: Siemens, The True Cost of Downtime 2024

Sound familiar?

When maintenance only reacts, the plant pays for it.

Machines stop mid-run

A hydraulic hose bursts on a press halfway through an order. The line waits while someone looks for the part and the last service date.

The same faults keep coming back

A gearbox is repaired, then fails again three months later. The history sits in notebooks and memory, so nobody sees the pattern.

The right part is missing

The bearing you need was used last month and never reordered. The stores still hold parts for machines scrapped years ago.

How Solmex fixes it

One system for machines, maintenance and spare parts.

Prevent

Service machines on run hours

Set a service plan once for each press, extruder, kiln, mixer or compressor. Solmex schedules every interval by run hours or the calendar, with the task list and parts on the job.

Intervals by run hours or calendar
Due and overdue work in one list
Hour meter readings entered from a phone

See Preventive Maintenance

Track

See why machines fail

Every breakdown carries a failure code, the downtime, the work done and the parts used. Solmex shows which machines fail most, how long repairs take and where the same fault returns.

A failure code on every breakdown
Time between failures and repair time
Full repair history for each machine

See Breakdowns

Control

Know which parts you have, and where

Spare parts are held by store and bin, with QR labels on every bin. Parts issued to a job are costed to the machine, and low stock is flagged before the shelf is empty.

Stock by store and bin
Parts costed to each machine
Low stock flagged before you run out

See Spare Parts

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, presses, extruders, compressors)

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

Can we plan maintenance on run hours for each machine?

Yes. Each machine can follow a plan based on run hours, kilometres or the calendar, and each interval has its own tasks and parts. Your team enters hour meter readings from a phone or on a daily entry grid, and Solmex shows what is due, due soon or overdue.

Does Solmex read data from our PLCs or machine sensors?

Yes, through an integration built for you. We connect Solmex to your PLCs, machine sensors or SCADA as a separate project, scoped to your equipment and priced separately. Without one, readings are entered by people from a phone or a daily grid, which works on any machine, old or new. Besides the hour meter, each machine can carry up to eight process readings, such as temperature or pressure, and Solmex warns on entry when a value is out of range.

How do operators report a problem?

Each machine gets a QR label. Anyone on the floor can scan it with a phone and report a fault with a photo, without needing an account. Maintenance decides whether it becomes a work order or a breakdown. People who only report problems are free on every plan.

We run more than one plant. Does that work?

Yes. One account holds every plant and location, and each machine keeps its full history wherever it is moved. Roles and permissions decide who sees and edits what. Most teams import their machine list from Excel and start with one plant in a day or two.