FOOD & BEVERAGE
CMMS Software for Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Sanitation, uptime, and an audit trail that already exists.
Maintenance, sanitation, and cold chain on one system, with the inspection record produced by doing the work rather than assembled the night before an audit.
- Sanitation on the same schedule
- Cold chain monitoring
- Audit trail as a by-product
WHAT CHANGES
What a CMMS changes in a food plant
A food plant runs on two clocks at once: production and sanitation. These are the four things plants tell us they are trying to fix.
Sanitation and maintenance run on separate schedules, so a wash-down and a rebuild get booked on the same line on the same night.
Both live in one queue against the same asset, so the conflict is visible when it is scheduled rather than when the crew arrives.
A cooler drifts overnight and nobody knows until the morning check finds product out of spec.
Sensors on coolers and freezers report continuously, and a reading outside your range opens a work order and notifies someone that night.
Audit prep means a week of pulling paper together and hoping the checklists were signed.
Inspections are scheduled work with photos, timestamps, and the corrective action linked to the same asset. The record exists because the work happened.
Changeovers overrun and nobody can say which line or which step is losing the time.
Changeover steps are tracked against the line, so the slow step is a number rather than an opinion.
RESULTS
Results from food and beverage teams
Published results from UpKeep customers and the Forrester study.
90%
Reduction in technician time spent filing work orders and finding asset information
KEY WORKFLOWS
Maintenance workflows across a food and beverage plant
Sanitation, cold chain, and mechanical maintenance are the same job in a food plant. These are the hand-offs that matter.
A wash-down is due on a filler
A seal fails mid-run
- CMMS The technician logs the failure and pulls the seal kit against the work order.
- Procurement Hitting the reorder point drafts a requisition before the next run needs one.
- Nova Ask which assets consumed the most parts this quarter, and whether that seal keeps failing.
NOVA
Build the checklist your plant keeps asking for
Nova is UpKeep's AI assistant, and it builds apps. Describe the sanitation log, changeover checklist, or temperature report you need in plain language and Nova builds it against your own data, no developer, no second system to reconcile at audit time.
See how Nova works- Build a sanitation log for the filler line that requires a photo at each step.
- Which coolers went out of range more than twice last month?
- Make a changeover tracker that records minutes per step and flags anything over target.
PRODUCTS
Maintenance software features for food and beverage
These are apps, not an edition. Most plants start with the CMMS and add Edge and Safety as the audit requirements grow.
Maintenance CMMS Work orders, preventive maintenance, asset history, and parts. The system of record everything else hangs off.
Explore CMMS →
EHS Safety Incident capture from the floor by phone or voice, with OSHA 300, 300A, and 301 recordkeeping.
Explore Safety →
Training Learn Procedures, courses, and certifications tied to the people who do the work.
Explore Learn → Preventive Maintenance PM schedules that trigger on dates, meter readings, or hours run, so work happens before the failure. Explore → Edge Sensors Wireless condition-monitoring sensors. A reading outside your range opens a work order on its own. Explore → Quality Inspections, non-conformances, and corrective actions against the asset that produced the defect. Explore → Production Runtime, downtime reasons, and OEE on the line, connected to the maintenance that affects them. Explore → Parts & Inventory Spare parts, stock levels, and reorder points, consumed against the work order that used them. Explore → Procurement Requisitions, approvals, and purchase orders tied to the work order and storeroom that triggered them. Explore → Nova The AI assistant that answers questions about your data and builds custom apps from a description. Explore →
CUSTOMER STORIES
Teams running maintenance on UpKeep
Moved maintenance off paper and onto a system the whole team can see.
Old Trapper
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Organized technician workload and built a preventive schedule around cold storage equipment.
Columbia Fruit
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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
Read the story →CMMS for food and beverage: common questions
What is a CMMS for food manufacturing?
A CMMS is the system a food plant uses to schedule preventive maintenance and sanitation, run work orders, track asset history, and keep the inspection record.
In a food plant the distinguishing requirement is that maintenance and sanitation share a schedule and an audit trail, because both touch the same equipment and both get inspected.
Does UpKeep help with HACCP or SQF audits?
It gives you the maintenance and inspection record those audits ask for: scheduled checks with timestamps, photos, sign-offs, and the corrective action linked to the asset.
It is not a food safety management system and does not write your HACCP plan or manage your CCP determinations. Plants keep those where they are and use UpKeep for the equipment and inspection evidence.
Can UpKeep monitor cooler and freezer temperatures?
Yes, through Edge. Wireless sensors report continuously to a gateway, and a reading outside the range you set opens a work order and notifies whoever is on call, including overnight, which is when most excursions happen.
The history stays on the asset, so a pattern of drift is visible before the unit fails.
How does sanitation fit alongside maintenance?
As scheduled work orders against the same assets, in the same queue. That is the point: when a sanitation wash-down and a mechanical rebuild are booked on the same line the same night, you see the conflict when it is scheduled rather than when both crews turn up.
How much does maintenance software cost for a food plant?
UpKeep is priced per user per month, based on the people creating and closing work orders rather than the number of assets. Operators reporting a problem do not need a paid seat. See the pricing page for current tiers.
Does UpKeep replace our ERP or MES?
No. The ERP stays the financial system of record and the MES keeps running production. UpKeep handles maintenance and sanitation alongside them, and parts consumption can flow back to the ERP through the API.
How long does implementation take?
Weeks. Most plants start with one line: import the asset list, set the PMs and sanitation schedules that matter most, and get technicians on the mobile app. Sensors usually come second, once the work order habit holds.
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