Introduction

ianaiERP's Equipment & Capacity suite answers two operational questions the rest of the ERP can't:

1. "Can we actually produce this?" — given the routings, machine speeds, shift patterns, planned maintenance, and material availability, what's the realistic completion date for each work order, and which work centers will overload?
2. "How do we keep equipment running?" — what preventive maintenance is due, what unplanned downtime occurred, which spare parts are about to run out, and which assets are critical to production right now?

The suite is split into three parts that a company can turn on independently:

A company can enable any combination. The Equipment Hub is the entry page, and it shows only the widgets for whichever modules are turned on.

Where it lives

• Equipment Hub — a single-page overview of the plant floor: KPIs, the status board, alerts, the capacity heatmap, and today's preventive maintenance.
• Equipment Detail — the per-asset operational view: maintenance history, runtime, child assets, spare parts.
• Capacity Planner — work-center-level capacity utilization, on-demand recompute, work-order ETAs, and material bottlenecks.
• Maintenance Hub — preventive maintenance schedules, the maintenance event log, and spare-parts inventory.
• Work Centers — the list of work centers and their capacity parameters (machine speed, OEE target, shift pattern, availability, default setup time, and whether it's flagged critical for the capacity dashboard).
• Assets — the existing Accounting asset list, extended with Equipment fields (work-center link, parent asset, runtime status, critical-asset flag, operating hours, next-service date).

How the pieces connect

An asset's runtime status — set by an operator, or automatically by a work-order operation — rolls up to its work center, taking the worst status among the work center's machines. Routing operations, work-center capacity, preventive-maintenance schedules, and component lead times all feed the capacity calculation, which produces a snapshot of expected load and any overload. Status changes, overload conditions, upcoming maintenance, and low spare-part stock all update the Equipment Hub live, without a page refresh.

Who uses what

• Operators (floor tablet) — Equipment Hub status board → flip an asset's status (Running / Setup / Down / Idle) → log an unplanned breakdown → mark a preventive-maintenance task done.
• Maintenance lead — Maintenance Hub → create preventive-maintenance plans → schedule the work → review downtime trends → link spare parts to assets.
• Production planner — Capacity Planner → recompute capacity for the next 30 days → identify overloaded work centers → see which work orders will slip and why.
• Plant manager — Equipment Hub dashboard → KPI overview (utilization, OEE, open maintenance, overdue preventive-maintenance, work centers at risk) → drill into any asset for its full history.

Recommended setup order

1. Enable the modules your company needs (Equipment, and optionally Capacity and Maintenance). See Permissions.
2. Configure Work Centers with their capacity parameters (machine speed, shift pattern, OEE target). See Work Centers for CAPA.
3. Tag your Assets with their work center, critical-asset flag, and parent asset (for hierarchical rollup). See Asset Management.
4. Mark items that are spare parts and link them to the assets that consume them. See Spare Parts.
5. Create preventive-maintenance schedules for the assets that need them. See Preventive Maintenance.
6. Open the Equipment Hub — KPIs, the status board, alerts, and the capacity heatmap come online. See Equipment Hub.
7. Run the first capacity recompute in the Capacity Planner to seed its data. See Capacity Planner.

What this doesn't do (yet)

• No real-time sensor or PLC data feed — runtime status is set by operator entry or by a work-order operation starting and stopping, not by a machine reporting itself.
• OEE here is a planning target you set on the work center, not a measured figure derived from actual production and quality data.
• No predictive or machine-learning-driven failure prediction.
• An asset assigned to a work center is either critical to it or not — there's no partial weighting for how much capacity it represents.
• No built-in e-signature workflow for regulated industries.
• No structured failure-mode taxonomy; use custom fields if you need to categorize failure types.

Related docs

• Work Centers for CAPA
• Asset Management
• Equipment Hub
• Capacity Planner
• Preventive Maintenance
• Maintenance Events
• Spare Parts
• Runtime Status