Spatial CMMS for Cosmetics and Personal Care Manufacturing
MYREX is a Spatial CMMS for beauty and personal care manufacturing, built around a high-definition 3D capture of each machine rather than a list of asset records. Setup positions, photos, video, notes and work history are pinned to the exact spots on the filler, capper or packing machine they apply to — which is the form the knowledge is actually in when a short run ends and the next format goes on.
Why is maintenance software for a cosmetics plant hard to find?
Because the searches return enterprise resource planning systems. A cosmetics ERP handles formulation, batch records, ingredient lot traceability and regulatory documentation, and it is genuinely necessary — but it is not the system a technician stands at a machine and works in. Who keeps the fillers and cappers running through a schedule of short runs, and where is what they know written down? That is maintenance execution. MYREX is that system. Run lengths are short and the format mix is wide — a rigid bottle, a tube, a jar and an airless pump in the same week, at different fill volumes, with different closures. Every transition is a change-part swap, a set of adjustments, and a clean-down, and the adjustments are small, physical and specific to a point on the machine. Contamination sensitivity raises the stakes on the same work.
Where does the setup knowledge live now?
With the two or three people who have been there longest, in the form of places on the machine. The capper torque setting that works for one closure and not the next. The fill nozzle that has to be seated a particular way after the change part goes back on. None of that fits in a work-order description field, so it is either not written down or written as a sentence that only helps someone who already knows. MYREX gives it an address. A mark (a pinned location on the machine) sits on the high-definition 3D capture of that exact machine, and a photo of the correct position, a short video of the adjustment, and a note naming the format it applies to attach to it.
Machine
What gets pinned to it
Rotary or inline filler
Nozzle positions and the change parts per container; the seating point that drips after a format change; clean-down access points
Capper / torquer
Chuck and head settings per closure type; the wear point checked between runs; the guard interlock that trips after strip-down
Piston or pump filler
Piston and seal positions; the disassembly sequence for clean-down; the spots checked on reassembly
Tube filler and sealer
Orientation-sensor position; the sealing jaw points that get inspected after a tube change
Labeller
Applicator height and wipe-down position per container shape; the sensor reading the gap
Cartoner / case packer
Bucket and lug settings per carton or case count; the photo-eye that needs realigning after a format change
Mixing and transfer vessels
Seal and valve locations, agitator points, and the access points used at clean-down
What if we have no maintenance system at all?
Then you are the buyer this was built for, and you are in a great deal of company. Many beauty and personal care plants — including large ones with good quality systems — run maintenance on a spreadsheet, a shared drive, a whiteboard, and the people who have been there longest. Starting from nothing has one real advantage here: there is no legacy asset hierarchy to reconcile and nobody defending an existing tool. The capture exists on day one. Knowledge attaches to it as work happens, and within a few weeks the machine is documented by the people who actually run it. How does a problem found at changeover reach the queue? An operator opens the machine in MYREX, taps the spot where the problem is, and reports it there. That one action creates a work order and a mark at the click position, so the problem arrives with its location already attached.
Does MYREX help with the records side?
It records maintenance work in a way that is designed to be defensible: sign-in through Microsoft Entra, so the identity in the record is the organization’s own directory identity; an attestation by that identified user on completed work; and an audit log secured by a SHA-256 hash chain, where each entry incorporates a hash of the one before it, so alteration is detectable rather than prevented. That is what “tamper-evident” means here. For plants working to cosmetics GMP expectations — ISO 22716, and in the US the facility and records expectations under MoCRA — equipment maintenance and its records are part of the picture rather than the whole of it. MYREX is designed to keep the maintenance record it holds attributable to an identified user and tamper-evident.
What actually ships today?
High-definition 3D capture of each machine
Shipped
Photos, video and notes pinned to exact locations on the machine
Shipped
Abnormality tags raised on the 3D scene, carrying the exact location
Shipped
Step-by-step guided mode
Shipped
Work orders — create, assign, complete
Shipped
Preventive maintenance (PM) calendar with recurring events linked to locations on the machine
Shipped
Asset pages with full activity history
Shipped
Report-a-problem escalation
Shipped
Media library
Shipped
Search across assets, marks (pinned locations on the machine), media, procedures, procedure steps and activity
Shipped
Manager dashboard — open, overdue, due-today and unassigned counts, with due dates
Shipped
Audit log, secured by a SHA-256 hash chain
Shipped
Attestation on completed work
Shipped
Microsoft Entra sign-in
Shipped
Per-step location anchoring of procedures
In development
Spanish (LatAm)
In development
Search is plain keyword matching across six result types today — not full-text, fuzzy, semantic or instant. The audit chain covers maintenance records — procedures, work records and attestations, and changes to them; administrative changes to accounts and roles are recorded but sit outside the chain.
Frequently asked
What is the best maintenance software for a cosmetics plant?
The honest answer is that it depends on whether you are replacing a system or starting without one. If you are starting without one — which is common in this industry — the deciding factor is how much equipment knowledge you have to type in before the system is useful. MYREX starts from a high-definition 3D capture of the machine, so day one has content in it.
We run maintenance on a spreadsheet. Is that a problem for getting started?
No. There is nothing to migrate and nothing to reconcile. Capture the machines, and the knowledge attaches as the crews work.
Can we start with one filling line?
Yes, and that is the usual shape. Capture that line, run the changeover and PM work there, and extend once it is being used without being asked for.
Does it work on the floor?
It runs in the browser on the tablets crews already carry.
How long does it take to get a machine into MYREX?
Capture is a scheduled on-site session per machine. It needs visual access to everywhere maintenance, service or training happens — usually the machine in service or maintenance mode, with guards opened where line of sight requires it, and a maintenance tech on hand. Sessions run between shifts, during planned downtime, or at PM time, and we work around your floor. Ask for current timing for your equipment mix.
Is this an ERP, or does it replace one?
Neither. An ERP handles formulation, batch and materials. MYREX is the system the maintenance crew works in. If you need it to work alongside your ERP, ask us — we will tell you what fits.
Our crews work in Spanish.
Spanish (LatAm) is in development, not shipped. Ask us for current timing before you plan around it.
See it on your own line.
Bring a machine you already know is a mess to explain, and we will show you what it looks like inside MYREX.