Operations

From commissioning to retirement, every asset accounted for.

CMS Industrial runs the complete equipment lifecycle with guided workflows, live asset history, and a triage pattern that auto-advances clean work and routes exceptions to the right person.

The lifecycle

A guided workflow for every stage.

Each stage is gated, attributable, and audit-logged — no step happens off-system.

Commissioning workflow

A four-gate intake — scope, inspection, tagging, and validation — captures equipment details, condition checks, and sign-offs before anything runs in production.

Asset tagging

Live operator scan-in timestamps every asset to a named operator, satisfying attributable-by-construction from the first touch.

Tracking

Search and filter equipment across its lifecycle status and plant/area/line/cell hierarchy — always know where an asset is and what state it's in.

Transfers

Inter-line, inter-plant, and inter-project moves run through approval chains with SLA deadlines and hand-off sign-off.

Reconciliation

Expected-vs-actual counts and field mismatches surface for guided resolution, each correction captured with a reason-for-change.

Retirement

End-of-life retire, retain, or redeploy decisions with engineer sign-off, optional two-person authorization, and linked evidence documents.

Operations at a glance

A control room for your plant operations.

The dashboard surfaces the day's work and the system's health so managers act on exceptions, not spreadsheets.

  • Morning briefing of today's open work orders
  • Transfer gap indicator catches asset imbalances across plants
  • Review queue for pending approvals with exception flags
  • System status panel for component health and queued records
Operations dashboard
Total assets
24,680
Active plants
18
Pending transfers
9
Compliance score
100%
Review queue
5 to action
  • Immutable, append-only event stream
  • Every event attributable to a person and timestamp
  • Evidence documents linked (inspection reports, calibration certificates, work orders)
  • Exportable for audits and inspections
Asset history

A complete, audit-ready history for every asset.

The asset-history timeline composes audit events, transfers, and retirement into one report — from commissioning through end of life — with the reason for every change and evidence documents linked.

Feature coverage

What's available today — and what's coming.

CMS Industrial covers the operations capabilities a modern plant expects, with an honest view of what's shipped versus on the roadmap.

Asset & operations lifecycle

  • Asset intake & scope definitionAvailable
  • Guided commissioning workflow (4 gates)Available
  • Asset tagging & operator attributionAvailable
  • Asset status & location trackingAvailable
  • Transfers with SLA trackingAvailable
  • Reconciliation & discrepancy resolutionAvailable
  • End-of-life retirement (dual authorization)Available
  • Work-order & maintenance schedulingRoadmap

Connect

  • AI-assisted tag/device discovery searchAvailable
  • Access-gated use (open/restricted/expired)Available
  • Bulk onboarding (spot-check at scale)In progress
  • Asset hierarchy & reconfigurationIn progress
  • Capacity planning & utilization heat mapsIn progress
  • Long-term connection & credential-expiry alertsIn progress

Compliance & governance

  • Immutable governance-principle audit trailAvailable
  • Reason-for-change captureAvailable
  • Vendor / access credential trackingAvailable
  • Asset-history timeline reportAvailable
  • Role-based, feature-locked dashboardsAvailable
  • ISA-95 / IEC 62443 / OSHA / ISO 55000 indicatorsAvailable
  • Cryptographic tamper-evidence (hash-chained audit trail)Roadmap
  • Electronic signatures for operational sign-off eventsRoadmap
  • Real-time data-integrity dashboardRoadmap
  • Per-tag data-lineage viewRoadmap
  • One-click regulatory inspection data packageRoadmap
  • Jurisdiction-aware compliance profilesRoadmap
  • Server-enforced data-classification tiersRoadmap
  • OEM data-sharing rights workflowRoadmap
  • GAMP-5-style aligned validation lifecycleRoadmap

Operations & integration

  • Dashboard KPIs, briefing & review queueAvailable
  • System status / component health monitoringAvailable
  • Energy & utility IoT monitoringRoadmap
  • Connectors for existing SCADA, historian & OEM systemsRoadmap
  • Project configuration (entry model, governance tier, retention, historian target, assignments)Available
  • Project closure orchestrationIn progress
  • Admin configuration consoleRoadmap

See your equipment lifecycle running on CMS Industrial.

We'll walk your workflows end to end, from intake to retirement.