Built by hardware people, for maintenance teams

How we got here

Before MachDatum, the founder spent eight months on the shop floor of a multinational manufacturing firm — not in the office, but on the floor. That was followed by two years writing firmware for Fieldbus protocols, connecting industrial equipment to the networks that carry their data. Both experiences pointed at the same gap: the machines could be connected, but the people maintaining them were still working off clipboards, WhatsApp threads, and memory.

MachDatum started with hardware. The MDIM-485 is an RS485 to Ethernet converter — it pulls data off PLCs, sensors, and meters that were never designed to talk to a network and makes them talk. Factories across India use it for real-time machine monitoring.

But the plants using the hardware kept running into the same wall. They could see machine data on a screen. They still could not see who last serviced the hydraulic press, when the next PM was due, or why the same bearing was failing every three months. Maintenance was still on paper and chat messages.

So we built the CMMS. Not as a generic platform — as a system that maps your plant the way it actually is. Your asset types, with your fields. Your location hierarchy, named the way your team names things. Work order workflows that match how approvals happen on your shift. Versioned checklists that give an auditor a complete record without anyone doing extra paperwork.

We are based in Coimbatore. Engineering-led, founder-run. We onboard plants directly, configure the system with the maintenance team, and stay close when something needs adjusting. That is the only way to build software that gets used on the floor — not just installed and forgotten.