The powerful EAM solution for modern industry
API PRO is a maintenance management system that manages assets, improves reliability, availability and performance management – and in addition, it is the most flexible EAM solution on the market today.
Key benefits of using API PRO
Avoid costly downtime
Enables you to take full control of your maintenance process and reduce unplanned production stop
Easy access to your production KPI’s
Makes it possible to filter on all relevant KPIs and provides a full overview of what is running smoothly in your plant and where reliability problems need to be attended to.
Increase efficiency in the maintenance process
Improves utilization and scheduling of maintenance resources – leading to reduced man hours and cost.
Optimize asset performance
Establishes a framework for a lean and efficient production – with a reduction of unplanned production stops
Flexibility to meet the needs of your organization
Offers a fully scalable, modular solution with unparalleled ability to grow with the needs of your organization.
Production reliability
Increases reliability and predictability of production units so that the desired output is delivered.
Reduce maintenance costs
Gives your full control and overview of your stock, which helps optimize the resources tied up in spare part inventory.
Fast implementation
Makes implementation quick and easy through a unique combination of out-of-the-box software solution and many years of experience from successful implementation processes.t
Feature highlights
Visual Planning
The efficient planning features makes it easy to schedule preventive and corrective work in a user-friendly way. The Visual Planning module provides an easy overview of the work load, the available resources and the used capacity all in one screen.
Planning across multiple plants
The API PRO architecture enables support of multiple plants with financial transactions in different currencies, maintenance work in different time-zones and data in multiple languages – all in the same database. This means that you can share spare parts and crucial data points among plants. With API PRO the various system options can be configured globally, per plant or per user.
Mobile maintenance
With the API PRO apps for iPhone/iPad and Android devices, staff can perform their maintenance activities online or offline. The apps provide easy access to technical documentation, results in more accurate registration and facilitates efficient communication with photos and description of work done.
Analysis and reporting
API PRO Analytics is the tool for organizations that focus on continuous improvement of maintenance operations, equipment availability, utilization of assets and reduction of maintenance costs. The module provides the user with flexible tools for analysis and includes essential technical, economical and organizational performance indicators that can be analyzed in multiple dimensions.
API PRO certified as SAP Integration partner.
We are excited to announce that our enterprise asset management solution api pro has been awarded with a sap integration certification as a result of api pro’s seamless integration with sap erp.
Integration to ERP and technical systems
The Integration module in API PRO includes standard components for flexible integration to ERP systems, configurable import/export via files or web-services, and tools for collecting data from technical equipment to be used for condition monitoring in an Industry 4.0-setting.
We clearly see the benefit of the integrated solution. Our technicians have easy access to data and can run an efficient maintenance management, but we have also experienced large time savings and a higher data quality.
With our business model and API PRO, we now have valid KPIs. We can see where we spend our money and find opportunities to work more efficiently. There’s no doubt that, for a well-implemented solution, the return on investment is there.
Mondi Business Paper chose an integrated solution with SAP and API PRO to ensure strong synergies between production and maintenance. This resulted in an integrated solution between production and maintenance including, among other things, easy access to data, large time savings and higher data quality. Download case story
*Mondi is an international packaging and paper Group, employing around 25,000 people across more than 30 countries.
TIL saw an Immediate Return on Investment with API PRO and this resulted in, among other things, reduced unnecessary purchasing with stock level alerts, reduced asset downtime with proper parts and labor planning and removed dead inventories and depreciating stock.
*TIL is one of the world’s largest container terminal operators with material equity interests in 24 operating terminals and 1 development terminal.
Enter the world of Industry 4.0
OPTIWARE offers a combined EAM & OEE solution uniquely tailored to meet your needs – and to give you an edge in the world of Industry 4.0.
Key Product features
Mobile work order management
Full spare part management with barcodes and QR codes
ERP integration
Flexible screen design and user management
Centralized configuration of multiple plants
Inspection and calibration
Resource management including skills and shifts management
Permit to work
Purchase from supplier catalogues or web-shops
Analytics and standard report templates
Maintenance Management
| Feature | Description |
| Preventive maintenance | Schedule timer-based or counter-based periodic work orders |
| Corrective maintenance | Create and manage planned and unplanned work orders |
| Condition based maintenance | Work orders based on automatic or manual registration of equipment conditions |
| Job ordering | Ease access to creation of job requests |
| Work order templates | Generate work orders from templates |
| Work instructions | Step-by-step descriptions on how to perform maintenance work |
| Resource planning | Plan specific work suppliers for specific parts of work order. Plan non-human resources such as trucks or tools. |
| Time registration | Track all time and cost used for maintenance work |
| Visual planning | Graphical overview of pending work orders, available resources and work capacity |
| Incident reporting | Register events or incidents as notifications which can later be added to work orders |
| Shift log book | Manage shift responsibility and register events during shift |
| Inspection rounds | Combine inspection, lubrication or measurement activities into inspection rounds |
| Project management | Track maintenance projects with detailed budgeting and forecasting functionality |
| Calibration | Periodic calibration of maintenance objects and control equipment |
| Customer invoice | Create invoices for work completed for your customers |
| Skills and qualification management | Ensure that the maintenance work is performed by people with the right qualifications. Keep track of the skills and training certificates of your work suppliers. |
| Mobile work order management | Register maintenance work everywhere using your smartphone – even when without a network connection |
| Mobile inspection rounds | Register inspection activities everywhere using your smartphone – even when without a network connection |
| Permit to work | Administration and approval of work permits for critical maintenance work. Including isolation and normalization activities (lock out and tag out) |
Material Management
| Feature | Description |
| Stock control | Complete stock control system for spare parts |
| Barcoding | Create barcode labels for equipment, spares, work suppliers, etc. and use barcode reading for reliable data entry. |
| eCl@ss spare part classification | Implement a standard classification system and improve your material management. |
| Spare part reservation | Reserve spare parts for work orders |
| Internal purchase requests | Create request for purchase of spare parts or services |
| Accumulation of purchase needs | Easy overview of purchase requests and stock items below minimum. |
| Purchase orders | Manage and print purchase orders from API PRO and purchase directly from work orders or projects. |
| Supplier agreements | Manage agreements with details about discount and delivery times. |
| Supplier catalogs | Import spare part catalogs from suppliers and create purchase orders directly from catalogs. |
| Web shop purchasing | API PRO support punch-out technology and enables you to create purchase orders directly from your suppliers web-shop |
| Delivery registration | Follow up on ordered items and register goods delivered. |
| Invoice registration | Register invoices and automatically modify spare part prices |
| Mobile stock control | Mobile PDA with support for stock inventory, spare part issuing and movements between stocks |
System Features
| Feature | Description |
| Multi-level plant structure | Build your asset structure with positions and maintenance objects with unlimited number of plant structure levels. |
| Graphical navigator | Use images of your plant or your workflows to create easy navigation for your users. |
| Graphical dashboard | Online overview of alarms, scheduled or unplanned work orders with graphical elements |
| Screen-designer | All screens in API PRO can be designed for each user group in the system. |
| Tools management | Keep track of where you tools are and who are using them |
| Document management | API PRO contains a full document management system with revision control and permission management. |
| Web-based job request | Create job requests and notifications directly from your Intranet with the Job Request Portal |
| Financial control | Full financial control of maintenance costs with multiple financial dimensions |
| Budgets and forecasting | Budgets and forecasting of projects and work orders |
| Customizable reports | Use Crystal Reports to customize your own reports |
| Messaging | Automatic generation of messages to users based on maintenance events |
| Analytics/Business Intelligence | Full business intelligence analytics modules based on QlikView |
| ERP Integration | Standard import/export tools and web services specially developed for integration with ERP |
| Data import | Import data from external systems |
| Data export | Use the export tool for automatic scheduled export of data to external systems |
| Industrial interface (OPC) | Enable true condition based maintenance by interfacing to monitoring systems with OPC |
| Change logging | Track changes made in part of the plant structure where change logging is enabled. |
| Permission management | Flexible control of user permissions for all parts of API PRO |
| Flexible user management | Unlimited user groups |
| Language support | 23 languages and support multi-language data |
| Multiple plants | Multiple legal units and multiple plants in same database |
| Multi time zone | Use API PRO in different time zones |
| Multiple currencies | Multiple currencies for financial transactions depending on legal unit. |
What you get with API PRO EAM
Avoid costly downtime
Increase efficiency in the maintenance process
Flexibility to meet the needs of your organization
Production reliability
Fast implementation
Reduce maintenance costs
Easy access to your production KPI’s
Optimize asset performance
Improved regulatory compliance
Secure reliable data and documentation
Optimize procurement process
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