CAT-WALK runs your maintenance program food-safety-first — work orders that cannot close until the Foreign Material Control checklist passes, preventive maintenance by calendar or run-hour meters, and assets, parts, and purchase orders on the same backbone as your quality evidence.
A standalone CMMS tracks wrenches; it doesn’t know a wrench left on the line is a recall waiting to happen. CAT-WALK closes every work order through a food-safety gate — photo proof, LOTO clear-out, area production-ready — so maintenance evidence becomes audit evidence.
The CMMS built for food plants — work orders, preventive maintenance, assets, parts inventory, and purchase orders, with food safety as the exit criteria. No work order closes until the Foreign Material Control checklist passes, the completed-work photo is attached, and lock-out/tag-out is cleared.
In a food plant, maintenance IS food safety — a wrench left on the line is a foreign-material recall waiting to happen. CAT-WALK makes the food-safety close-out part of the work order itself, so maintenance evidence becomes audit evidence automatically. Anyone in the plant can submit a request from any device, technicians work their orders on the floor, and every assignment, due date, and approval lands in the same Tasks, Calendar, and Approvals the rest of the platform runs on. Coming from a standalone CMMS? Bring your history with you — work orders, assets, and parts import via CSV.
When an auditor asks, the evidence is already connected — not assembled in a panic.
Why is this CAPA past due?
CAT-I.AI answersCAPAs link to findings, owners, due dates, verification, and closure evidence.
Show findings and closure.
CAT-I.AI answersInternal audit findings, CAPAs, verification, and closure evidence stay defensible.
A seven-question food-safety close-out — tools accounted for, no debris left, guards reinstalled, area production-ready — that blocks work order completion on any harmful answer. Enforced server-side, not just in the UI.
Lock-out/tag-out built into the work order: lock and tag ID capture, plus a “locks removed, equipment returned to service” confirmation required before close-out.
Schedule PMs by calendar — daily through annual — or by run-hour meters, like servicing the compressor every 500 hours. One planner grid with inline editing and bulk reassignment.
Pass-down reports auto-consolidated from the technician’s actual shift work and signed before clock-out. The Shift Board hands the next crew machines down, “where I stopped” notes, and unresolved issues that carry forward until acknowledged.
Parent/child asset hierarchies — line to hopper to chiller — with cost roll-ups, photos, and printable, scannable barcode labels. Scan the machine, see its history.
Min/max part levels with bin locations. Multi-select restocking auto-splits one selection into one draft PO per vendor, routed to the requester’s manager for approval.
Work orders, PMs, and close-out checklists connect to the tasks, approvals, and audit evidence the rest of the platform maintains.
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