SPANNER: maintenance, production, quality, time clock and financials for manufacturing plants, from one login

Incidents

When a machine stops, everyone who can fix it knows in seconds.

Operators raise the alert from the line, technicians get it on their phones, and response time, repair time and downtime are stamped as it happens.

No sign-up. The demo plant opens straight away, in view-only mode.

Installs on any phoneEach plant's data kept separateCSV, Excel, Word, PDF and PowerPoint reports
Line 2 · BottlingDemo plant · sample data
LIVE 07:42
MX-01Mixer 1Running
FL-03Filler 3Running
CP-02Capper 2Running
LB-01LabelerRunning
PL-01PalletizerRunning
BL-01BoilerRunning
All machines running
No open alerts on Line 2
OEE today
78.4%
MTTR
22min
PM on time
94%
Open W/O
12
Downtime this shift, minutes
Filler 341
Capper 225
Labeler11

How it works

Why SPANNER

SPANNER is an ERP built for plants, so every department is connected: a repair takes its parts from stock, a purchase posts to the books, and production, maintenance and finance all work from one set of facts. It is set up around your own lines, machines and people.

1

We set up your plant

Your lines, machines and their sections, your people and their roles, and only the modules you choose. Each person sees what their role needs.

2

Every team works on one record

Operators raise alerts, technicians close work orders, purchasing orders the parts and finance sees what they cost. Nothing is typed twice.

3

The numbers come from the work

Downtime, OEE, PM compliance, overtime and costs add up as people work, and every report downloads as CSV, Excel, Word or PDF.

What SPANNER does for each department

Maintenance

Less downtime, and every minute of it measured.

  • Response, repair and downtime recorded for every breakdown
  • PM schedules with monthly compliance, and work orders with parts and several assignees
  • MTTR and MTBF for every asset

Finances

The books keep up with the plant.

  • Sales and purchasing post to a double-entry general ledger automatically
  • Trial balance, profit and loss and balance sheet whenever you need them
  • Project costs and invoices, and stock valued at moving-average cost

Quality

Every problem found on the line is followed to a fix.

  • Inspections, defects and holds recorded at the line
  • Corrective actions (CAPA) followed through to closure
  • Calibration and certificates, with their due dates in view

Inventory and purchasing

The right part on the shelf, at a known cost.

  • Stock across several warehouses, with low stock flagged for managers
  • Requisitions, purchase orders and goods receipts in one flow
  • Parts used on a repair come straight out of stock

Modules

See each department at work

Pick a department to see a sample of what it runs in SPANNER.

SPANNER's Maintenance dashboard in the demo plant: MTTR, MTBF, availability, downtime, planned against unplanned work and parts spend, with downtime by machine below.Full size
The Maintenance dashboard: MTTR, MTBF, availability, downtime and parts spend for any period. From the live demo plant.See it in the live demo
12

modules, from maintenance to financials

1

login for the whole plant team

9

roles, each seeing only what it needs

5

report formats: CSV, Excel, Word, PDF and PowerPoint

Built for the floor

Made for gloves, noise and a phone in a pocket

SPANNER installs like an app, works on any screen and keeps each plant's data separate.

Four timestamps from breakdown to a confirmed fix

An operator raises the alert at the line and a technician answers it in minutes. SPANNER stamps every step, so response time, repair time and downtime are measured, not estimated. Scroll to follow one incident.

SPANNER07:42
Open

Filler 3 · Jam at infeed

Line 2 · Bottling · Raised by K. Morgan, operator

  1. T1
    Alert sent07:42
  2. T2
    Tech responding07:45 · 3 min
  3. T3
    Report submitted08:00 · 15 min repair
  4. T4
    Confirmed08:06 · 24 min down

Every phone on the maintenance team buzzes with the machine, the fault and who raised it.

T1 · 07:42 · Alert sent

An operator raises the alert from the line

Two taps on a phone or a shared screen. The alert names the machine and the fault, and goes to every technician on shift as a push notification.

T2 · 07:45 · Tech responding

A technician takes it, and the clock starts

Response time is recorded the moment someone presses Respond, so managers see who answered and how fast, shift by shift.

T3 · 08:00 · Report submitted

The fix is written up at the machine

Cause, action taken and parts used go into the report, and the parts come out of stock. Nobody re-types it into a spreadsheet later.

T4 · 08:06 · Confirmed

The supervisor confirms, and the numbers update

Downtime, MTTR and MTBF recalculate for the machine and the line, and the record is ready for the monthly report in Word, Excel, PDF or PowerPoint.

More for the floor

Alerts on every phone

Breakdowns and overdue PMs arrive as push notifications, even with the app closed.

Clock in on site

Phones clock in only on site. Overtime calculates itself.

Reads without signal

Pages you opened stay readable in a plant with no Wi-Fi.

The right screen for each role

Operators, technicians, supervisors and managers each see their own work.

Reports ready for the boardroom

Reports export to CSV, Excel, Word, PDF and PowerPoint, with your logo.

Ask your plant a question

The Operations Advisor answers from your own maintenance and production data.

Or point at the deck, then at a card to enlarge it.

Built by a maintenance manager

SPANNER was built around the way plants actually work, by people who have run maintenance on a production floor.
Shawn Wilson
Shawn WilsonIndustrial systems engineer and maintenance manager
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SPANNER was inspired by Shawn Wilson, an industrial systems engineer working as a maintenance manager. After years of leading maintenance teams and navigating production pressures, equipment downtime, and fragmented, slow-moving information, he kept running into the same problem: plants relied on a patchwork of spreadsheets, paper records, and disconnected software that rarely communicated. Rather than force manufacturing processes to fit off-the-shelf tools, he set out to build software around the way plants actually work. That decision became SPANNER.

He holds a BEng in Industrial Systems from Caribbean Maritime University.

shawncobrawilson@gmail.com
Sammarieo Brown
Sammarieo BrownLead software engineer, fintech and AI
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Sammarieo Brown is the lead software engineer who brought SPANNER to life, translating Shawn’s operational vision into a secure, scalable cloud application and building the real-time, multi-tenant system that now runs entire plants from a single login.

He also leads data science at one of the Caribbean’s largest financial groups, founded Calibr, a no-code credit risk modeling platform, and holds a BSc in Computer Science and Statistics and an MSc in Applied Data Science from the University of the West Indies, Mona.

sammarieobrown21@gmail.comsammarieo@everydolla.tech

See SPANNER manage your plant by optimizing your workflow

Open the demo plant now, or email or call to book a walkthrough set up with your own lines and machines.