Forklift compliance that doesn't stop the line.
In a plant, the forklift that feeds the line is production-critical — which is exactly why its faults get worked around instead of reported. Asset360 makes the safe path the fast path.
What goes wrong in manufacturing
Production pressure beats defect reporting
When the line is waiting, a soft brake gets nursed for another shift. Paper systems make reporting slower than working around it.
Mixed traffic on the shop floor
Trucks share routes with pedestrians, process plant and AGVs. Horns, beacons and lights are the items that fail quietly — until a near miss.
Maintenance loops that never close
A defect reported verbally to an engineer has no trail. Nobody can prove the fault was fixed before the truck went back to work.
Asset360 on the ground
The line-feed truck with a failing brake
The situation
The truck feeding the packing line has a brake going soft. On paper, it gets mentioned at handover for a week while everyone hopes it holds.
With Asset360
The operator fails the brake item and the truck locks out immediately — a work order goes to maintenance with the photo attached. The spare truck covers the line, and the record shows the fault was acted on the moment it was found.
Closing the maintenance loop
The situation
An engineer fixes a hydraulic leak but there's no record connecting the defect, the repair and the return to service.
With Asset360
The defect, the assigned engineer, the repair notes and the sign-off back to service form one chain on the truck's record. PUWER's maintenance duty is evidenced end to end.
One standard across four plants
The situation
A group runs four factories, each with its own checklist habits and paper formats. Group EHS has no comparable picture.
With Asset360
Every plant runs the same fuel-type-aware checklists under one account, with sites kept separate. Group EHS sees a compliance score per plant on one dashboard.
Manufacturing: common questions
Will lockouts disrupt production?
A lockout takes an unsafe truck off the floor — which is the legal duty either way. What Asset360 changes is speed: the work order is raised instantly with a photo, the supervisor knows immediately, and the return-to-service sign-off happens as soon as the repair does.
Does it cover LPG and diesel trucks used indoors?
Yes. Checklists are fuel-type specific — LPG trucks get cylinder, hose and connection checks; diesel gets fluids and exhaust; electric gets battery and charging items.
Can our maintenance team use it without new software?
Defects and work orders live in the same system: an engineer gets assigned, logs repair notes and signs the truck back to service. There's nothing to install — it runs in the browser on any phone or desktop.
General guidance, not legal advice. See our plain-English guides to PUWER, LOLER and the daily forklift check.
See it on your own fleet.
A 20-minute demo set up with your trucks — including the checks and evidence that matter in manufacturing.