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PlantLog-MERN

An industrial e-logbook and asset registry repository for maintenance, operations, and incident-tracking workflows.

Role fit

Industrial SystemsOperations Software

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Problem

Industrial maintenance and operations context can become fragmented when logs, asset records, and incident notes are not organized as one reviewable workflow.

Architecture

An Express and Mongoose backend (Asset, LogEntry and User models, JWT authentication, admin, operator and supervisor roles) and a React, Vite, Zustand and Tailwind frontend with Dashboard, Assets, Logs and Login pages, packaged with Docker Compose…

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An Express and Mongoose backend (Asset, LogEntry and User models, JWT authentication, admin, operator and supervisor roles) and a React, Vite, Zustand and Tailwind frontend with Dashboard, Assets, Logs and Login pages, packaged with Docker Compose and a CI workflow. The repository has no automated tests yet.

Results

Implements an industrial e-logbook and asset registry with role-based access (Express, Mongoose, JWT, React).

Verification path

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PlantLog Maintenance Hub conceptual editorial research illustration

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Last verified 2026-10-05

Problem and approach

Problem

Industrial maintenance and operations context can become fragmented when logs, asset records, and incident notes are not organized as one reviewable workflow.

Architecture

An Express and Mongoose backend (Asset, LogEntry and User models, JWT authentication, admin, operator and supervisor roles) and a React, Vite, Zustand and Tailwind frontend with Dashboard, Assets, Logs and Login pages, packaged with Docker Compose and a CI workflow. The repository has no automated tests yet.

Workflow logic

The project supports the portfolio as evidence of thinking about maintenance records, asset registry structure, and incident-tracking surfaces.

Why it matters

It broadens the archive with operations-software context without competing with the lead analytics and data science projects.

Architecture and analysis

  • Positions industrial operations software as a record and workflow problem.
  • Adds maintenance-management and asset-registry context to the archive layer.
  • Supports the industrial systems background while staying separate from the selected data portfolio.

Testing and validation

  • MERN-oriented operations software repository
  • Asset-management and maintenance-management topic coverage
  • Archive proof for industrial e-logbook and incident-tracking direction

Operational value

  • Implements an industrial e-logbook and asset registry with role-based access (Express, Mongoose, JWT, React).
  • Connects maintenance, operations, and incident-tracking concepts in one public repository.
  • Adds operations-software proof to the archive layer of the portfolio.

How to inspect

  • Inspect this as archive proof, not as a lead analytics case study.
  • Use the repository topics and README as the current evidence source.
  • Read it after the selected data projects if the role values industrial operations context.

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