Odoo ERP · Maintenance
Odoo for Plants That Live on Equipment Uptime
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A plant that schedules production and ignores the machine will discover the spare part on the day the line stops. Maintenance is a first release when downtime is already how you lose the week.
The equipment and the spare
Name the machines that stop the line. Give each a preventive job on the calendar you already use, even if that calendar is a whiteboard. The spare parts for those jobs are products in a maintenance location, not a drawer nobody counts.
Production orders are a separate decision. You can track maintenance before you run full MRP. If you do both, start from Odoo MRP and add the machine.
A breakdown is a document
When a machine stops, the request should say which machine, when, and which part was used. A phone call does not become a history you can use to buy the next spare. Someone closes the request when the line runs.
Do not connect every sensor in the first release. A person logging the stop is enough to learn which machine hurts. A sensor feed is an integration after that list is trusted.
Keep it to the machines that matter
Ten critical machines and their spares are often part of a 2–4 month project. Every motor in the plant is how the register is abandoned. Cost follows scope, typically inside ₹2–15 lakhs for partner-led work in India.
Bring the last month of breakdowns to a free audit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do we need manufacturing orders as well?+
Only if you also need to plan what the line makes. Maintenance can go live on its own if uptime is the pain.
Can technicians use a phone?+
Yes, for the request and the parts they used. Keep the first screen to those two facts.
Should spares be in the same warehouse as raw material?+
Give them a location. Mixing them with production stock is how a spare gets issued to a job.