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Rutba vs Fiix
The deep, plant-oriented CMMS in this group. Backed by Rockwell and integrated with their factory-automation stack, it is what a serious plant maintenance function shortlists.
Checked 3 September 2026Fiix - pricing and product ↗
What Fiix is
A cloud CMMS with a strong plant lineage: assets, preventive maintenance, MRO inventory, purchasing, parts vendors, reliability analysis, and integrations into Rockwell's factory automation and MES stack. Sold per user in tiered plans, with a Foundation tier that is free for small teams.
Who it genuinely suits
- Plants running Rockwell automation on the floor
- Reliability engineers who want failure analysis rather than a checklist
- Multi-site industrial operations with shared parts inventory
- Teams that need the depth Fiix has spent years building
Where they win
What Fiix does better than us.
Every comparison page on this site has this section and none of them is empty. If it were, you would be right to discount the rest of the page.
Depth in plant maintenance, seriously
Failure codes, root-cause analysis, reliability metrics, meter-triggered work with rollover, MRO inventory with reorder points. Ours is M4 and honestly limited beside it for years to come.
The Rockwell seam
Native integration with FactoryTalk and the wider Rockwell automation stack. If the floor runs on Rockwell, this is the smallest possible seam.
A real free tier
The Foundation plan is free for small teams and includes real functionality. That is a fair way to try a CMMS.
Multi-site MRO inventory
Shared parts across sites, with transfer and consolidation, is a mature feature. Ours will use Rutba Inventory, which is a different (and honest) trade.
Where we win
What Rutba does that this does not.
Argued from how the products are built rather than from a feature list, because feature lists are the part of a comparison that goes stale first.
Assets that are not machines
A laptop, a vehicle, an office chair and a building space are the same shape of record as a lathe. Fiix is a plant CMMS and does not pretend otherwise; the estate outside the plant is not what it is for.
One system when you buy the suite
A Rutba customer already has the ledger, the people and the inventory. Fiix is a CMMS that connects to those. Fewer connectors, fewer sync failures.
A register whose custody trail survives audits
Insert-only custody events matter for any asset that leaves the building - laptops, vehicles, tools. Fiix is deep on the plant assets that never leave.
And the one that is not a feature
Rockwell Automation (Fiix) will not build what you ask for. We will.
That is not a criticism of them — a vendor at their scale has to weigh your request against every other customer it touches, and schedule it behind a roadmap set a year out. Your request is a rounding error in their planning, honestly so. We are small, and the people building the product are the people you talk to: what helps everyone goes into the product at no extra charge, what is specific to you is quoted as the work it is, and when the answer is no you get the reason.
Side by side
The same six questions the hub asks of everyone.
| Question | Rutba | Fiix |
|---|---|---|
| Runs the businessCRM, stock, orders, production and the ledger, from one vendor | Included | Not covered |
| Runs the dayMail, files, documents, chat and meetings, included rather than licensed separately | Included | Not covered |
| One set of recordsDo the modules share the records, or integrate copies of them | Included | Not covered |
| Buy it yourselfCan you subscribe and start without a partner or a sales cycle | Included | Included |
| Parts sold separatelyCan you take one piece without committing to the platform | Included | Included |
| Run it yourselfIs there a path to your own hardware | Partly | Not covered |
On price: We do not reproduce Rockwell Automation (Fiix)’s prices here. A list price is published and fair to quote, and it is stale within a quarter — which would make this page quietly wrong in a way you could not see. Read today’s number from them, and ours is on our pricing page in full, tier by tier.
Moving
What leaving Fiix actually involves.
The question that decides this is not whether you should move but whether you can. This is the honest version, including the parts that do not come across.
- 1
Assets, PM schedules, work order history and MRO inventory all export from Fiix - the exports are mature.
- 2
If Rockwell is on your floor and integrated, that seam does not survive the move - factor it into the decision.
- 3
Reliability analytics do not migrate. The historical failure codes stay useful; the analysis rebuilds.
No customer has done this yet. The steps above describe the mechanism — what exports, what imports, what has to be rebuilt — rather than a migration we have run. When one has been run, this section will say whose it was.
Our actual recommendation
If your floor is Rockwell and your maintenance function is a reliability engineer with a spare-parts crib, Fiix is the honest answer and this file is not going to argue with it. Look at us when the estate has more than just plant assets, when the ledger and the people are already Rutba, or when a smaller shop needs a register more than it needs reliability analytics.
If you did move
The products this comparison is about.
With their real availability labels, which apply inside a comparison exactly as they do everywhere else on this site.
Note before you compare: Rutba Facilities is not generally available yet. Any row above that we win on it is a claim about what ships, not about what you can buy today.
Rutba Facilities
Early accessAsset & facilities management software
Every asset the organisation owns — laptops, machines, vehicles, buildings and their spaces — in one register with custody events that never lose the trail, lifecycle with contracts and licences, and the work that keeps them running against the same asset the accountant and the HR officer see.
- One asset register the whole estate reads from
- Custody as insert-only events — who had what and when it was returned
- Sites, buildings and spaces, with assets attached to each
Includes: Assets · Facilities
From $9 per user / month
Rutba Inventory
Available nowInventory management & warehouse (WMS) software
Stock levels, multi-location transfers, stocktakes, and valuation — the single source of truth every other part of the business reserves and deducts against.
- Live stock across unlimited locations and bins
- Transfers with in-transit visibility
- Scheduled and rolling stocktakes with variance reporting
Includes: Stock · Warehouse Control
From $22 per user / month
Rutba Manufacturing
Available nowManufacturing & MRP software
Versioned bills of materials with work centres on every routing step, a regenerative MRP run that nets against real inventory and pegs plan to demand, and a shop-floor terminal that reports work in progress from the bench where it happens.
- Versioned bills of materials with effectivity, where-used and a change record
- Work centres with capacity, calendars, and a labour basis for costing
- A regenerative MRP run — nets on-hand and reserved, respects lead times, plans by lot policy
Includes: Manufacturing · Planning · Shop Floor · Quality · Maintenance
From $32 per user / month
Head to head
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Weighing this against Fiix?
Tell us what you run and how you use it. We will be specific about what would improve, what would get worse, and whether the move is worth it at all.