Make how your plant works
transferable.
When the answers live in a few people’s heads, they’re a risk to every plan: growth, integration, and succession. PlantLore turns that know-how into knowledge your company keeps, organized by machine and kept current by the people who do the work.
- Built by a steel mill electrical engineer
- Works beside SAP and any CMMS
- English and Spanish
- Private to your company
Your plant’s performance depends on who shows up.
Key-person risk
A few long-time technicians hold the answers. If they leave, performance can leave with them.
Hard to standardize
Each site fixes the same problem its own way, and nobody can see which way works.
Slow to get new people productive
New hires take months to learn equipment a veteran knows by heart.
What your company gets
Knowledge the company keeps
Fixes, hazards, drawings, and photos attached to each machine, showing who wrote them and who verified them.
Faster onboarding
New technicians learn your machines from the people who run them, not from a generic manual.
Measured, not promised
A one-machine pilot measures lookup time, calls to senior staff, and how quickly long breakdowns get written up.
Private to your company
Each company has its own space and sign-in address, kept separate in the database itself.
Scan. Find the fix. Keep it.
No new habits to learn. A QR label on the machine, a phone in the technician’s pocket, and a manager who checks what gets added.
- 01Scan the machineOne scan opens everything your plant knows about it: lockout points first, then known problems, manuals, drawings, and PLC files.
- 02Find the fixSearch the way people talk. “Won’t advance” finds the fix someone wrote down last year, with their photo. Checked fixes come first.
- 03Keep what was learnedThe tech who fixed it adds a few lines and a photo, right at the machine. A manager reviews it and marks it Verified.
Start with a measured pilot.
One machine, measured against how things work today. You see the numbers before you decide anything else.
- Time to find the fixHow long it takes a technician to find the right documentation, before and after.
- Calls for helpAfter-hours and off-shift calls to senior staff about that machine.
- Failures written upHow quickly a long breakdown gets written up and shared with every shift.
Keep the knowledge.
Find the fix.
See PlantLore on a real machine. Then we’ll review one of your machines with your maintenance lead, for free, and leave you a one-page sheet of its top five failures and fixes, whether or not you buy.
- 1Tom reaches out to set a time that works for your shifts.
- 2A short call and a live demo on a real machine.
- 3A free review of one of your machines, with your maintenance lead.
The people may change. Your plant should keep what it learned.