Spatial CMMS for Packaging Plants — Built Around the Line

MYREX is a Spatial CMMS for packaging plants — every machine on the line is a high-definition 3D capture, with changeover knowledge, photos, video, notes and work history pinned to the exact spots on the equipment they apply to. So the changeover adjustment that currently lives in one person’s head has somewhere to live that is not a person.

What makes maintenance different in a packaging plant?

Three things, and they compound. Changeovers are frequent, so the machine is taken apart and put back together far more often than it is repaired. The line is a chain, so a stoppage on one machine is a stoppage on all of them. And the equipment is rarely one vintage — a machine bought this decade feeds one bought two decades ago, through a conveyor someone in the plant built. Where does changeover knowledge actually live today? Usually with two people — the setter and the technician — and neither has any way to write it down as a place on the machine. It gets written as a sentence instead: “Adjust the side guide at the infeed.” Which side guide, how far, and relative to what, stays with the person. MYREX gives that knowledge an address. A mark (a pinned location on the machine) sits on the high-definition 3D capture of that exact machine. A photo of the correct guide position, a short video of the adjustment, and a note about the carton size it applies to attach to the mark. The next person opens the machine, finds the place, and sees what the last person saw.

How does MYREX handle a line of mixed-vintage machines?

The capture is of the real equipment as it sits on your floor — guards, hoses, the pneumatic panel added in 2019, the bracket that is not on any drawing. It is not a CAD model of how the machine left the OEM, which matters most precisely on the old machines, where the documentation is furthest from the machine in front of you. A machine with no usable manual is no harder to bring into MYREX than a new one.

Machine

What gets pinned to it

Rotary filler

Fill-head positions and the change parts each one takes; the spot that drips after a format change; clean-down access points

Cartoner

Bucket and lug settings per carton size; the glue-head position; the photo-eye that gets misaligned during strip-down

Case packer

Grip and pick-head setup per case count; the guide rail sequence for bringing the line back to the previous format

Blister machine

Forming and sealing station tooling positions; the tooling change sequence; the checkpoints after a tool swap

Thermoformer

Web path and tooling alignment marks; the trim-station points that need checking after every change

Labeller

Applicator height and wipe-down position per container; the sensor that reads the gap

Shrink wrapper / bundler

Film path and tunnel settings by pack pattern; the belt tracking adjustment point

Palletiser

Pattern-specific tooling positions; the guarding interlock that trips after maintenance

How does a changeover problem become a work order?

An operator or setter finds something during a changeover — a leak, a loose fastener, a guide that will not hold position. They open the machine in MYREX, tap the spot, and report the problem there. That one action creates a work order and a mark at the click position, so the problem arrives in the queue with its location already attached. The technician who picks it up does not have to find it — they open the location and are looking at it. What if we run maintenance on a spreadsheet today? Then this is a straightforward start rather than a migration. A large share of packaging plants — including some very large ones — run maintenance on a spreadsheet, a shared drive, a whiteboard and the two people who have been there longest. MYREX starts from the machine instead of the database. The capture exists on day one, and knowledge attaches to it as work happens, in the place it belongs.

What does the maintenance manager see?

The question

What the manager sees

What is open right now

Manager dashboard: open, overdue, due-today and unassigned counts, with due dates

Recurring preventive maintenance (PM)

A PM calendar carrying recurring events, which can link to a location on the machine

What happened to this machine

The asset page, with full activity history

Who did it and when

Attestation on completed work, and an audit log secured by a SHA-256 hash chain

Finding anything

Search across assets, marks, media, procedures, procedure steps and activity

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

Is MYREX the right maintenance system for a packaging plant?

Yes, in the sense that matters to a buyer comparing options: work orders, preventive maintenance scheduling, asset history and completion records. The difference is the entry point — a navigable high-definition 3D capture of each machine rather than a list of asset records, so the work is found by finding the place.

Can we start with one line?

Yes, and that is the usual shape. Capture the machines on one line, run the changeover and PM work there, and extend once the crews are using it without being asked to.

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.

Does it work on the floor?

It runs in the browser on the tablets crews already carry.

How does it relate to the system we already have?

MYREX is a maintenance execution system in its own right. If you need it to work alongside something you already run, 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.