L2L can replace your CMMS. It covers the core jobs, which are work orders, preventive maintenance schedules, asset records, and spare parts. It also adds what most CMMS tools lack: operator-run inspections, real-time alerts, and a live link to production data. Your existing PM schedules can be loaded in bulk from a template, with your current PM codes carried over. If you need to keep your current system during a transition, talk to L2L about how the two can share data.

Response times show up on the live maintenance dashboard as soon as issues are logged in L2L, so you have a baseline from the start and can watch it change. The improvement comes from rules you set once. Alerts reach the right person by text, email, Teams, or WhatsApp, and they escalate to the next person if no one responds in time. ADAC reported faster response to downtime events after rollout, and Purple saw results right away at its Grantsville plant.

A technician gets an alert on their phone and opens the job on a phone, tablet, or computer. The machine’s history and suggested spare parts are already loaded. They follow the checklist or instructions attached to the job, request spares from the same job, and track their time against it. When they close it, they record what was done, on which part, and why, so the fix becomes data you can analyze later.

Yes, in stages on one system. Operators start by catching abnormalities with scheduled inspection checklists. PMs then run by time, cycle count, or condition. For cycle-based PMs, L2L learns each machine’s actual cycle rate from its PM history, once it has two completed PMs, and projects a due date with a confidence score. AI analysis then shows whether your PM program is reducing failures and which failure patterns keep coming back. Most plants add predictive monitoring on their most costly assets first rather than everywhere.

L2L is a comprehensive Manufacturing Operations Management platform, but a maintenance-led rollout can start with work orders, PM schedules, spare parts, and alerts, then add production tracking, skills, and work instructions later. Existing PM schedules load in bulk from a template, and one user says you can train someone to use it in under an hour. Purple’s Director of Maintenance called its implementation “extremely fast.” Usually, the first area is live and seeing results in just a couple of weeks. 

Each site keeps its own settings, such as alert types, schedules, and thresholds, so a plant with different PM conventions can run its own cadence. What you standardize is shared across sites: checklists, work instructions, and how metrics like PM compliance, response time, and downtime are measured. ADAC runs a standard real-time process for monitoring downtime events across four facilities and more than 200 production lines.

L2L’s support team handles questions and issues, and the support portal has step-by-step articles and training videos you can search by problem. A sandbox environment lets you test changes before they go live. Some changes, such as loading PM schedules in bulk or adjusting dashboard thresholds, are handled by L2L support through a ticket.