Machinery, jigs, fixtures, gauges, forklifts and the totes and cages that carry your product — one register, with RFID portals at the gates, zone-level movement history and preventive maintenance on the same record, so the plant knows where things are and when they are due.
A plant is a sequence of areas that material and equipment pass through: goods come in at receiving, wait in the warehouse, feed the lines, pass through quality and leave from dispatch. Asetavo models each area as a location and, where you install fixed RFID readers, as a zone.
Add each site, production line, workshop and store.
Tag machines, moulds, dies and calibrated gauges.
See where each one is, when it’s due for service or calibration, and its history.
Maintenance, calibration and cost records live with the machine — not in someone’s notebook.
The day-to-day failures manufacturing teams describe before they move off spreadsheets and paper registers.
A die, jig or fixture set should be at the line when the changeover starts. When it has been left in the tool room, the other line or the repair bench, the line waits while people walk the floor looking for it.
PM plans sit in one spreadsheet, the asset list in another and work orders on paper. Technicians cannot see a machine's history when they arrive at it, and nobody can say with confidence which services were skipped last quarter.
Torque tools, gauges and test equipment drift. If an instrument is used past its calibration date, every part it checked is in question. Tracking due dates in a separate log means out-of-date instruments stay on the line.
Totes, stillages, cages and pallets leave dispatch full and are supposed to come back empty. Without a record of what left and what returned, the pool shrinks quietly until the next replacement order.
Counting machinery, tooling and returnables across a whole site by hand is slow. By the time the spreadsheet is reconciled, equipment has moved, and finance and operations argue about whose number is right.
Install your own fixed UHF readers at receiving, dispatch and between key areas. Asetavo ingests their signed events, updates each tagged asset's last-seen location and records the movement automatically.
Learn moreDefine receiving, warehouse, each line, quality and dispatch as zones. Rules can flag an asset that leaves its zone, enters one it should not, or an unregistered tag seen at a portal.
Learn moreAttach PM schedules to machines and forklifts. The due list shows what is coming up; maintenance planners generate work orders from it and technicians close them against the asset with parts, labour and notes.
Learn moreLog calibration through work-order completion, with certificates attached and the next due date tracked per instrument, so quality can see which gauges are current before they are used.
Learn moreIssue jigs, fixtures and hand tooling from the crib to an operator, a line or a work cell with a due date, and see what is out and with whom at shift change.
Learn moreWalk an area with a handheld reader and capture hundreds of tags in a pass. Asetavo reconciles the reads into found, missing and unregistered, so a plant-wide count becomes a routine exercise.
Learn moreSend zone and portal alerts to your own systems as HMAC-signed webhooks, so a returnable leaving through the wrong gate can surface wherever your team already works.
Learn moreRun book and tax depreciation on machinery and tooling with eight methods, and report net book value by line, area or category for capital planning.
Learn moreA tagged forklift passes the portal between the warehouse and Line 1; the zone event updates its location and adds to its movement history. Separately, its PM schedule puts it on the due list. The maintenance planner generates a work order from the due list, the technician scans the forklift's tag to open it — already knowing which area it was last read in — records the work and closes it. Work orders are created from PM schedules by your team; Asetavo does not yet trigger them automatically from usage or movement counts.
Before a changeover, the setter checks the die or fixture out from the crib to the line. When it comes back, it is checked in with a condition note; anything flagged for attention gets a work order so the next run does not start with a damaged tool.
Totes and stillages are read at the dispatch portal as they leave and at receiving when they return. The difference is your outstanding pool. Filtering by last-seen location and date lists the units that have not been read back, so they can be chased.
Each gauge carries a calibration schedule. When it comes due, a work order records the calibration, the certificate is attached, and the next due date is set. Quality can pull a list of every instrument and its current status for an internal or customer audit.
On the phone · Manufacturing
Technicians work calibration and PM jobs on the phone, with parts, labour and notes. A trolley of tooling or a whole cell moves in one bulk scan, and stock-takes run cell by cell. All of it keeps working without signal and syncs exactly once.
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Categories and custom fields keep the details each group needs — serials, warranty, custodian, room.
Machinery and presses · Jigs and fixtures · Dies and moulds · Cutting and hand tooling · Forklifts and pallet jacks · Compressors and conveyors
Totes and bins · Containers · Pallets · Cages and stillages · Reusable packaging · Racks and dollies
PM schedules · Calibration records · Work orders · Service history · Spare critical components · Warranty and service contracts
Fixed portals at gates · Handheld readers · Zone definitions · Bulk audit sessions · Reader health and silence alerts
Torque tools · Gauges and micrometers · CMM and metrology fixtures · Scales · Test rigs
Setters search the register for the fixture set they need and see its last location, whether it is checked out and to which line. If it was read at the tool-room portal an hour ago, they know where to go. Changeovers start with the right tooling on the bench.
A technician scans the press's tag with the mobile app and sees every past work order, parts used, recurring faults and attached manuals. They arrive at a breakdown with context, and the fix is recorded against the same asset for the next person.
Quality maintains a calibration schedule for every gauge and torque tool. Instruments approaching their due date appear on the due list; the calibration is recorded on a work order with its certificate. When a customer auditor asks, the evidence is one export away.
Tag reusable totes and cages with UHF RFID and read them at dispatch and receiving. Reports show how many are on site, how many are out and which have not come back, turning a vague shrinkage problem into a list you can chase.
Instead of a weekend stock-take, open audit sessions per area and walk each with a handheld reader. Found, missing and unregistered items reconcile automatically, and finance gets a register it can trust for the year-end asset review.
Combine a machine's maintenance cost history, age and net book value to decide whether to keep repairing it or replace it. Export the figures for the capital budget rather than rebuilding them from invoices.
Most maintenance tools know the schedule but not the plant floor. Because Asetavo keeps PM, calibration and work orders on the same record as movement history, a planner can see that a forklift is due and that it was last read at the Line 2 portal. Work orders are generated from PM due lists by your planners; automatic generation from schedules and usage thresholds is on the roadmap.
Production equipment is usually the largest block of fixed assets on the balance sheet. Asetavo keeps depreciation and disposal on the same records the plant uses daily, so the fixed-asset register and the physical plant match.
Plants mix metal machinery, plastic returnables and small precision instruments, so no single tag fits. Choose by surface and by how you want to read it: automatically at a portal, in bulk during an audit, or one at a time at a workstation.
The core technology for gates and returnables. On-metal hard tags go on machinery, forklifts and steel cages; standard inlays work on plastic totes. Fixed portals read them hands-free and handhelds count whole racks. Business plan and above.
What is UHF RFID?For hand tooling, jigs and fixtures where a quick phone scan at the crib is enough. Use chemical- and oil-resistant labels and place them away from clamping and wear surfaces.
What is QR?For small gauges and instruments where there is no room for a label. Operators tap to open the record and check calibration status before use. Growth plan and above.
What is NFC?Keep existing linear barcodes if your stores already scan them, and map them to asset records during onboarding so nothing needs relabelling on day one.
What is Barcode?Not sure which to use? Try the tag technology selector or compare plans.
Plants have many hands on the asset list: operators, setters, maintenance, quality, stores and finance. Role-based permissions separate who can move and check out assets, who can manage readers and zones, who can run audits and who sees cost. Reader traffic is authenticated so portal events cannot be spoofed.
Asetavo is the asset and maintenance record; your ERP, MES and quality systems remain where they are. Connect them via the REST API, push alerts out through signed webhooks and use Excel and CSV exports for anything else. We do not ship named connectors for specific ERP or MES products.
Map receiving, storage, each line, quality and dispatch as locations, and decide which boundaries need fixed portals. Those become your zones.
Import your equipment register with the Excel/CSV import wizard, then set up PM plans and link schedules to the right machines.
Apply on-metal RFID to machinery and forklifts, standard UHF inlays to totes, QR to tooling. Work area by area so each zone is complete before you move on.
Register your readers, confirm signed events are arriving, and set zone rules for the gates that matter most — usually dispatch and receiving first.
Start generating work orders from the PM due list and recording calibration on work orders, so history builds on each asset from week one.
Once tagging is complete, run an audit session per area, resolve missing and unregistered items, and set a recurring audit cycle.
Something we didn’t cover? Walk us through your sites and assets and we’ll show you how Asetavo would be set up.
Book a demoBring your plant layout and a sample of your equipment list. We will map your zones, show a portal event flowing into movement history, and walk through PM and calibration on your assets.
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