FARMING & AGRICULTURE
The season does not wait for a repair.
Irrigation, harvest equipment, and cold storage maintained on hours run, with work orders that reach an operator in a field with no signal.
WHAT CHANGES
Equipment failure during a narrow window costs a crop. These are the four things operations tell us they are trying to fix.
Harvest equipment is serviced when someone remembers, and a breakdown during the window is unrecoverable.
Service is scheduled on hours run, so the work happens in the off-season rather than mid-harvest.
Irrigation problems are found by walking the field, often after the damage is done.
Sensors on pumps and lines report condition, and an out-of-range reading opens a work order the same day.
Operators are in fields with no signal and the paperwork is a notebook that may not come back.
Work orders and history live on a phone offline, and sync when the device reaches signal.
Cold storage drifts overnight and the loss is discovered in the morning.
Continuous monitoring opens a work order and notifies someone while the crop can still be saved.
RESULTS
Measured across UpKeep customers in an independent Forrester study.
90%
Reduction in technician time spent filing work orders and finding asset information
KEY WORKFLOWS
Equipment, irrigation, and cold storage are one maintenance problem across a season.
NOVA
Nova is UpKeep's AI assistant, and it builds apps. Describe the checklist or report you need in plain language and Nova builds it against your own equipment and work order data.
See how Nova worksPRODUCTS
These are apps, not an edition. Most operations start with the CMMS and Fleet, then add Edge for irrigation and cold storage.
Maintenance CMMS Work orders, preventive maintenance, asset history, and parts. The system of record everything else hangs off.
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EHS Safety Incident capture from the floor by phone or voice, with OSHA 300, 300A, and 301 recordkeeping.
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Training Learn Procedures, courses, and certifications tied to the people who do the work.
Explore Learn →CUSTOMER STORIES
Keeps kitchen equipment running across a footprint measured in thousands of sites.
Chick-fil-A
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One operator runs maintenance across every restaurant he owns from a phone.
McDonald's
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Moved campus crews off paper and onto digital preventive maintenance and work orders.
Caltech
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Standardized maintenance across one of the largest custom restorative labs in the world.
Glidewell
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Moved from 60% reactive work to 20% by putting every asset on a recurring PM schedule.
Industrial manufacturer
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Shifted work from reactive to preventive and brought maintenance costs down with it.
Layfield Group
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Replaced paper tracking and manual data entry across the plant using Nova.
Sprinturf
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Moved maintenance off paper and onto a system the whole team can see.
Old Trapper
Read the story →It is the system a farm or agricultural operation uses to schedule service on equipment by hours run, maintain irrigation and cold storage, and keep the repair history for each machine.
The defining constraint is the season: a failure during a narrow harvest window costs a crop, so the point is getting service done before it.
Yes. PMs can trigger on hours run, meter readings, or mileage rather than dates, which is what matters for equipment that is idle for months and then runs continuously for weeks.
Yes. Work orders, equipment history, and procedures are available offline on a phone, and what was recorded syncs when the device gets back into signal.
Yes, through Edge. Wireless sensors on pumps, lines, and cold rooms report continuously, and an out-of-range reading opens a work order and notifies whoever is on call.
Yes, through Fleet. Tractors, harvesters, and trucks are maintained on hours or mileage, in the same queue as fixed assets like pumps and cold rooms.
UpKeep is priced per user per month, based on the people creating and closing work orders rather than acreage or machine count. See the pricing page for current tiers.
Weeks, and the off-season is the right window. Most operations start by importing the equipment list, setting service intervals on hours, and getting operators on the mobile app before the season starts.
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