USE CASE
Autonomous maintenance software that records where the abnormality is
Autonomous maintenance asks operators to find problems on their own equipment, and it works — but the tags go on the machine while the record goes in a binder. MYREX closes that gap: a tag raised from the 3D capture of the machine is placed on the exact spot, so the next person to look at it sees the place, not a sentence describing the place.
What is autonomous maintenance?
Autonomous maintenance (jishu hozen) is the TPM pillar that moves basic equipment care — cleaning, inspection, lubrication, tightening, and the reporting of abnormalities — from the maintenance department to the operators who run the machine. The argument for it is simple: the operator is standing at the machine for eight hours and the technician is not, so the operator will see the leak first. Its standard first steps are initial cleaning, eliminating sources of contamination and hard-to-access areas, and writing provisional CILT standards the operators themselves can hold.
Why do autonomous maintenance programs stall?
They stall at the handoff, not at the launch.
The tag says where, in words
“Leak near the discharge, drive side.” Six weeks later the technician who picks it up has to go find it. On a machine with three discharge points on the drive side, that is a real search.
The CILT sheet gets ticked in the break room
A paper route has no way to know whether anyone stood in front of the machine. Once that starts, the data is worse than no data, because it looks like coverage.
Tags accumulate faster than they close
Tag generation is easy to celebrate and closure rate is what actually matters. A board with 240 open tags teaches operators that tagging is theatre.
How does MYREX change the abnormality tag?
A tag raised from the 3D scene is placed on a location, not typed as a description of a location.
Where the problem is
Paper/generic app: a written description (“drive side, near the discharge”). MYREX: a point on the 3D capture — tap it, you are looking at it.
Who has to interpret it
Paper/generic app: the technician, six weeks later, at the machine. MYREX: nobody.
What a photo is attached to
Paper/generic app: the tag record. MYREX: the place — so it sits with every other photo ever taken of that spot.
Finding the history of a spot
Paper/generic app: not possible. MYREX: open the location; see everything ever recorded there.
What is still open
Paper/generic app: counted by hand off a physical board. MYREX: open and overdue counts on the manager dashboard, with due dates.
The specific thing this buys you: open the spot on the machine and you see the previous tags raised at that same spot. That pattern — this location keeps generating tags — is invisible on paper and is usually the actual root-cause signal.
How do operators run a CILT route in MYREX?
A CILT route in MYREX is a guided procedure the operator works through step by step, with the machine’s 3D capture alongside it. Photos, video and notes pinned to the points the route covers — the grease point, the guard, the sensor face — are there to be opened rather than described in a line of text. When a route finds something wrong, the operator goes to that spot on the 3D capture and raises the abnormality there, and it enters the work queue with the location attached. That is the handoff that normally leaks.
What does a CILT route look like in practice?
Clean
Not housekeeping. Cleaning is inspection by touch — a hand on the machine finds the loose fitting, the hot bearing housing, the fresh oil film that the eye walking past does not.
Inspect
The look-listen pass: guard condition, gauge readings within range, unusual noise, leaks, damaged cabling.
Lubricate
Right point, right lubricant, right amount, right interval. Wrong-lubricant errors are a leading and entirely preventable failure cause.
Tighten
Fasteners back to spec. Vibration loosens things on a schedule of its own.
Frequency follows failure mode, not convenience: the lubrication points on a high-speed infeed may need a daily touch while the same machine’s guard fasteners are a monthly check.
Where does maintenance pick it up?
Tags raised by operators land in the same work-order system the maintenance team already works in — raising a problem creates the work order and drops a mark at the exact spot, in one action — so the technician arrives at the right spot with the history of that spot already in front of them. Completed work writes to the asset’s activity history and to the audit log.
What actually ships today?
Abnormality tags raised on the 3D scene, carrying the exact location
Shipped
Photos, video and notes pinned to exact locations on the machine
Shipped
Step-by-step guided mode
Shipped
Report-a-problem escalation
Shipped
Preventive maintenance (PM) calendar with recurring events linked to locations on the machine
Shipped
Asset pages with full activity history
Shipped
Manager dashboard — open, overdue, due-today and unassigned counts, with due dates
Shipped
Search across assets, marks, media, procedures, procedure steps and activity
Shipped
Audit log, secured by a SHA-256 hash chain
Shipped
Per-step location anchoring of procedures
In development
Spanish (LatAm)
In development
Search is plain keyword matching — 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 an F-tag?
An F-tag (from fuguai, Japanese for a defect or abnormality) is a tag an operator attaches to a machine to record an abnormality found during routine care — a leak, a loose fastener, an unusual noise, a missing guard screw, a gauge outside its range. It marks something not yet a breakdown.
What is CILT?
Clean, Inspect, Lubricate, Tighten — the four basic care tasks operators perform on their own equipment under autonomous maintenance.
Is there a CILT checklist app?
MYREX runs CILT routes as guided procedures alongside the machine’s 3D capture, which is a step past a checklist: a checklist records that a step was ticked, while the capture holds the photos, video and notes pinned to each point — and an abnormality gets raised on the spot where it was found, not described in a text box.
Do operators need training on MYREX?
The operator-facing flow is: open the machine, follow the route, tap the spot when something is wrong. Crews running it in Spanish should know that Spanish (LatAm) is in development, not shipped.
Can we start with one line?
Yes, and that is the usual shape — capture the machines on one line, run CILT and tagging there, and extend once the closure rate is real.
See it on your own machine.
Bring a machine you already know is a mess to explain, and we will show you what it looks like inside MYREX.