Records your auditor will accept
AssetAI is built so your maintenance records line up with the standards your plant is audited against. These are the standards we help you comply with — not certifications AssetAI holds.
From shop floor to boardroom, in three moves
Scan & report
Operator scans the machine QR, snaps a photo, taps submit. Own language, works offline, zero training.
Approve & assign
The Head's phone rings with coverage status and the best technician ranked first. One tap assigns.
See the money
Every timestamp lands automatically. Downtime ₹, failure Pareto, OEE and Repair-or-Replace verdicts — honest, because nobody typed them.
Everything a plant needs, nothing it doesn't
QR breakdown reporting
Scan → photo → submit. Shop-floor PIN, no operator logins, offline-safe queueing.
Learn morePreventive & meter PM
Time-based and usage-based schedules; overdue PMs raise work orders automatically.
Learn moreSpares & stores discipline
Requisition → approve → issue. Stock moves and the cost lands on the work order by itself.
Learn moreAMC & vendor service calls
Coverage badges at approval, quote gates, bill passing to work-order cost.
Learn moreDowntime ₹, OEE & Pareto
Where breakdown time goes, production loss in rupees, and a Repair/Review/Replace verdict per machine.
Learn moreAI knowledge base
Every closed repair becomes a searchable, cited answer from your own history.
Learn moreAnalytics you can defend in a board meeting
Because timestamps are captured as people work — not entered from memory — every number is defensible: where breakdown time actually went, what it cost, which machine deserves replacement.
- Failure Pareto by mode and cause
- Approval-wait vs repair-time split
- Production loss ₹ and OEE per machine
- One-page History Card with a Repair/Review/Replace verdict
Sound familiar?
Breakdowns live in WhatsApp groups
Reported late, argued about, never analysed. Nobody can say what failed most last quarter.
The asset register is an Excel file
Last updated months ago, on one person's laptop, with no link to spares, AMCs or history.
Downtime cost is a guess
You feel the loss but can't show the number — so repair-vs-replace stays a gut call.
Practical maintenance, honestly written
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Built to be trusted
Tenant isolation
Your data is scoped to your company at the database layer, verified by automated tests on every release.
Verified by automated tests each releaseImmutable audit trail
Who approved what, when — exportable as CSV for ISO evidence. Entries can never be edited.
Export: CSV · ISO evidence readyYour data, always yours
One click downloads every record as CSVs. No lock-in, ever.
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How do I stop operators from forgetting to report machine breakdowns?
AssetAI removes the friction that causes unreported faults — operators scan a QR code on the machine, enter their name and a company PIN, and the breakdown is logged without needing a login or app installation. Because the barrier is this low, breakdowns are captured at the moment they happen, when the operator is still at the machine. The system then enforces that every breakdown record must include a failure cause and remedy before it can be closed, which turns scattered reports into trustworthy data you can analyze later.
Why does it matter that work orders include parts, labour and outside services on one record?
When a repair is completed, you need to know what it cost — and that cost is only complete when parts, contracted services, and labour hours all live on the same work order. AssetAI keeps these together so the true cost of each breakdown sits with the breakdown itself, not scattered across three different systems or spreadsheets. This gives you an accurate picture of which assets are expensive to repair, which feeds into your Repair / Review / Replace decisions later.
Can AssetAI handle our statutory and calibration schedules, or only preventive maintenance?
AssetAI runs preventive, usage-based (meter), calibration, statutory and lubrication schedules all from one daily job — each type of schedule raises its own work order according to its own trigger. A statutory inspection schedule and a preventive oil-change schedule on the same compressor will both appear in the work queue on their due dates, separated by schedule type. This means you can align all your compliance and maintenance rhythms in one place without juggling separate tools or spreadsheets, and nothing slips through because a schedule type wasn't covered.
We work across multiple plants and shifts — how does AssetAI handle approvals?
Approvals are built into the work-order workflow, so you can route breakdowns or corrective actions up a chain (supervisor, maintenance manager, plant head) before they are actioned or closed. Each approval step is logged with a timestamp and user identity, which creates an audit trail. Combined with the fact that every change is written to an immutable activity log with field-level before/after values, this gives you the transparency you need across multiple plants and shifts without manually chasing sign-offs.
Does AssetAI work on-site if we lose network connection?
Yes — AssetAI is built as a PWA (Progressive Web App) that installs on your phone's home screen with four shortcuts for the most common tasks, and breakdown reports are captured and queued locally with no network required. When signal returns, the data submits itself automatically. This matters in Indian manufacturing plants where connectivity can be patchy on the shop floor; your operators can keep logging faults whether the internet is working or not, and the data synchronizes when connection is restored.
How do we justify a replace-vs-repair decision to finance without it looking like guesswork?
AssetAI calculates a Repair / Review / Replace score for each asset using plain arithmetic — historical repair costs, frequency, age and downtime — and prints the reasoning alongside the number so finance can see exactly which factors drove the recommendation. There is no hidden AI scoring or proprietary formula; you can defend the capex argument because the logic is visible. This approach is described in more detail under features, and the methodology is grounded in the same thinking as standards and frameworks used across Indian manufacturing.
Our plant runs 24/7 across three shifts. How do we ensure maintenance tasks don't slip between shift handovers?
AssetAI's task board shows open work orders in real-time with shift-specific assignments and handover notes. Incoming shift staff see what was attempted, what failed, and what needs continuation. Email/SMS alerts prevent tasks from falling into the gap between shifts.
We have old machines with no sensors. Can AssetAI still help us move beyond "fix-it-when-it-breaks" maintenance?
Yes. Log manual readings—temperature, vibration, runtime hours—directly into AssetAI during rounds. The system flags trending patterns and suggests optimal intervals for greasing, bearing replacement, or inspection. Asset history builds over time to predict failures.
What happens when our internet drops during a production shift? Can technicians still log breakdowns?
AssetAI works offline on tablets and phones. Work orders sync automatically when connection returns. This ensures no breakdown data is lost, even during outages—critical in plants with spotty connectivity or outdoor equipment areas.
Our finance team rejects "machine age" as a reason to replace equipment. What data do we show them?
Export repair cost trends, downtime hours, and spare parts spend from AssetAI. If a 12-year-old machine now costs 40% of annual budget to maintain, that ROI comparison is harder to ignore than gut feeling.
Getting it live without a big-bang rollout
The plants that succeed with AssetAI don't try to digitise everything in week one. They start with the asset register and QR tags for one line or one 40-machine unit, get operators comfortable scanning and reporting, and only then layer on PM schedules, spares and approvals. Master data quality — accurate asset names, a live list of failure modes, correct downtime cost per hour — matters more than switching on every module at once. A glossary walk-through with supervisors before go-live avoids the usual confusion between a "breakdown" and a routine service request.
- Tag and QR-code assets area by area, not plant-wide in one sitting.
- Seed the failure-mode, cause and remedy master lists with what your technicians already say on the shop floor, in their own language.
- Set downtime cost and rated output on the assets that matter for OEE and rupee-denominated reporting before you go live, not after.
What to actually watch in the first quarter
The numbers worth checking weekly are availability, MTTR, MTBF, PM compliance and the failure-mode Pareto — all computed automatically once work orders start closing with real cause and remedy data. If downtime cost and OEE figures look flat or wrong, it's almost always because the two dependent asset fields — downtime cost per hour and rated output per hour — were never filled in, not a bug. Reviewing the OEE numbers alongside a classic reference like Wikipedia's OEE explainer helps align maintenance and production on what "available" actually means for a given line.
Where this genuinely isn't the right tool
Being honest about fit here saves everyone a bad implementation:
- A single-machine workshop doesn't need approval routing or duplicate-breakdown guards — those exist to solve multi-asset, multi-shift problems.
- A plant already running SCADA/PLC/OPC-UA telemetry and wanting sensor-driven condition monitoring should look elsewhere; AssetAI takes meter readings by typing, photograph OCR or API push, never off a controller, and does no vibration, thermography or RUL prediction.
- An enterprise with an SSO mandate, or a rule that plant staff must never see another plant's data, won't get that here — plant is a data attribute inside the company, not a security boundary, and the only second factor on offer is an emailed OTP.
Mistakes that stall adoption
Most stalled rollouts trace back to the same handful of habits: giving everyone the Company Admin role instead of using the seven built-in roles as intended, skipping WhatsApp alert setup so escalations go unnoticed, or expecting a scheduled emailed report that the system doesn't produce — there's no custom report builder or BI connector by design, only the full data export and read-only API for teams that want to build their own. None of these are fatal, but knowing them upfront is cheaper than discovering them in month three. For a sense of what a properly scoped rollout looks like across different plant types, the use cases and industries pages are a better starting point than guessing, and booking a demo is the fastest way to check fit before committing.