Downtime Cycle and Availability
From first signal of stoppage to validated restart — every minute captured, escalated and explained.
CARET Downtime manages the complete lifecycle of every stoppage in the plant — from a single machine to an entire division — whether the cause is a breakdown, material shortage, customer hold, emergency or planned maintenance. Each event is captured, escalated by role and elapsed time, dispositioned, validated and closed. The module breaks down total downtime into its five real phases — reaction, maintenance, solution, validation and restart — so operations leadership sees exactly where slowness lives. Stoppage types, escalation rules, approvals and reports are fully configurable. Availability consolidates live, by asset, line, plant and division.
Core Capabilities
Capture at Any Scale
Machine, line, area, plant or full division — captured under a single workflow. Mechanical failure, material shortage, customer hold, emergency, planned event — every cause classified, every minute counted.
Five-Phase Breakdown
Total downtime divided into Reaction, Maintenance, Solution, Validation and Restart. The platform shows whether you lose minutes responding, fixing, validating or restarting — so corrective action attacks the real bottleneck.
Escalation Matrix by Profile
Auto-escalation by user role and elapsed time. A 5-minute stop notifies the supervisor; at 20 it reaches the plant manager; at 60 it alerts corporate. Small stops stop becoming big ones in silence.
Configurable Workflow and Evidence
The customer defines stoppage types, causes, approval chains and required evidence. Photos, comments, fault codes and parts attach to the event. The workflow follows your taxonomy, not a vendor template.
Availability and Audit
Live availability by asset, line, plant and division. Time-by-cause Pareto. MTTR trends. Filter every dimension, export or print formatted reports for internal review and customer audits.
Business Outcomes
Higher Availability
Measurable OEE improvement from faster, smarter response
Faster Reaction
Escalation closes the gap between stop and fix
Clear Root Cause
The 5-phase breakdown shows where to invest next
Lower TCO
Modular SaaS deployment, does not replace your ERP
How It Fits
- Coexists with SAP, Oracle or any ERP — does not replace it.
- Integrates via API to feed availability and downtime into OEE dashboards and ERP cost accounting.
- Stoppage types, causes, escalation rules, approval chains and report formats configurable per customer.
- Multi-plant, multi-language, role-based access — scales from one line to a multi-division network.
- Deployed plant by plant in weeks. Corporate availability consolidates across facilities automatically.