Spartakus News – Summer 2025

Spartakus APM continues to evolve to make maintenance and reliability work more efficient, intuitive, and insightful. Our rolling out this summer is focus on improving data visibility, user flexibility, and overall workflow consistency.

From advanced Excel exports to smarter scheduling tools, and from customizable tables to deeper PdM history access, each improvement is designed to remove friction and give you better control over your operations.

Here’s a quick overview of what’s new:

Features	What it does
Show All Alerts in Excel Export	See all alerts in Health Report exports.
Column Customization in Tables	Choose which columns to display in Alerts and New Results views.
Fixed Interval Task Planning	Align tasks with actual route frequency to avoid scheduling errors.
Detailed PdM Route History	Access complete PdM route data from the Compliance page.
In-App Documentation Links	Get context-sensitive help right inside the interface.
Add Comment Before Submitting Results	Add comments instantly when submitting 95% or 100% task results.
Default Thermal Unit Setting (°C / °F)	Set temperature units site-wide to match regional preferences.
Other Improvements	PDF links, image downloads, and more granular optimization summaries.

Let’s dive into each feature and see how they can make your daily tasks faster, easier, and more accurate.

Show all Alerts in Excel Health Report 

Spartakus’s new feature allows you to see all alerts directly in your Health Report (Excel Version), even when multiple alerts occur on the same component within a given month.

Previously, the report would display only one result per component per month, usually the most critical one. While that gave a high-level snapshot, it also meant losing visibility on important patterns, like recurring minor alerts or simultaneous warnings across multiple modes.

For teams that rely on Excel exports for reporting, analysis, or presentations, this limitation could hide early warning signs and lead to missed opportunities for proactive maintenance.

With this enhancement, exported reports now include the complete list of alerts triggered on each component. This means every alert, regardless of severity or timing, is recorded and available for review.

This update is especially valuable for managers and analysts who track trends, justify interventions, or need to report detailed results to stakeholders.

You’ll find this feature in the Health Report’s Excel export: no change in workflow, just better data.

Column Customization in Alerts and New Results

You can now fully customize which columns are displayed in the Alerts and New Results pages, giving you control over how information is shown, without cluttering your view.

With this update, each user can now select exactly which columns they want to display. The selections are saved in the browser’s local storage, so your personalized view will persist across sessions, no need to reconfigure every time.

This feature is especially useful for teams with different roles and priorities: reliability engineers, maintenance planners, or supervisors can each set up the view that works best for their tasks. Whether you’re scanning for recent anomalies or analyzing a backlog of results, the interface now adapts to your workflow.

You’ll find the customization option directly on the Alerts and New Results pages under “Select visible columns.”

Fixed Interval Task Planning for Variable-Frequency routes

Previously, task dates could be freely selected, regardless of when the route was actually scheduled.

This flexibility often led to misalignment: a task could be marked as due before the route that contains it was even scheduled, creating unnecessary confusion and “late” status flags. It placed extra pressure on planners to manually ensure everything lined up, and left room for costly mistakes.

With this new feature, task scheduling is now locked to specific intervals that match the route’s base frequency. The date picker in the planning modal only allows valid dates when the route is actually expected to occur. This ensures every task is executable when it’s due.

This is particularly useful for planners and technicians who manage complex rounds with dynamic scheduling. It streamlines the process while protecting against planning inconsistencies.

You’ll find this option in the round planning modal, accessible via the calendar icon next to a route in the planner table.

Detailed PDM route history available

You can now access the full history of PdM routes directly from the Routes Compliance page, just like you already could for PM routes.

Until now, compliance tracking for predictive maintenance (PdM) routes was limited: you could see whether a route was completed, but not what happened during that round.

This made it difficult for planners or auditors to review specific past results or validate what work was actually performed.

With this update, you can dive into the historical details of any completed PdM route. For each round, a breakdown of the completed tasks and results is just a click away, helping you understand what was done, when, and by whom.

This is especially helpful for:

It’s now much easier to answer questions like: What did the team inspect last quarter? Were any alerts raised? You no longer have to cross-check multiple sections of the app to get the full story.

To use this feature, go to Route Compliance, select any PdM route from the table, and click on a historical entry to view detailed results.

In-App Documentation Link – Confluence Pages

Need help while working in Spartakus? You’ll now find direct links to relevant documentation embedded across key parts of the interface, right where you need them.

Rather than searching manually through an entire help center or knowledge base, users can now access targeted guidance with a single click. These links take you straight to the relevant page, offering explanations, examples, and best practices tailored to the section you’re working in.

This enhancement was designed for all users, from new team members getting started to seasoned planners fine-tuning route configurations. Whether you’re editing the asset hierarchy, creating a route, or reviewing compliance, help is just one click away.

Currently, documentation links are available in areas like:

The links appear as white buttons with a purple outline and a small book icon, and they open the documentation in a new tab, so you can keep your place in the app without interruption.

Add a Comment Before Submitting Results

Technicians can now add comments directly when selecting 95% or 100% completion during PdM route execution.

Before this update, users who wanted to leave a note had to submit the result, then manually return to the previous task to edit and add a comment. This extra step was easy to forget and disrupted the workflow.

Now, the comment field appears right when you’re submitting a result. It’s an optional field, but if you add something, it’s saved instantly along with the result.

This improvement is especially valuable for PDM technicians in the field, who often need to note details or anomalies during inspection.

You’ll find this option in the PdM route execution screen, automatically triggered when choosing 95% or 100% severity. It also works for other severities, though the use case is focused on near-complete or complete task statuses.

Default Thermal Unit Setting (°C / °F)

Thermal data can now be displayed in either Celsius or Fahrenheit, based on your site’s preferred unit system.

Until now, all thermography results in Spartakus were shown exclusively in Celsius. That worked for some, but not for teams operating in regions where Fahrenheit is the norm. This new site-level setting brings much-needed flexibility by allowing each site to define its default thermal unit.

This enhancement is especially useful for multinational organizations or teams working across different regions. Site admins can now tailor the interface to local standards, whether metric or imperial, ensuring greater clarity and consistency across thermography data and reports.

You’ll find this setting under the Site Settings section. Once updated, the chosen unit will apply to all thermography-related views and reports for that site.

Other Small Improvements

In addition to the updates listed above, a few smaller enhancements have been made across the platform:

• Optimization summaries now visible at the function level
  Users can now view optimization results directly at the asset function level, giving more contextual insight without navigating up the hierarchy.
• PDF reports now shared via link
  When sending a PDF report, Spartakus now generates and shares a secure link instead of attaching the full file. This reduces email loading times and helps avoid issues with corporate firewalls or inbox size limits.
• Photo downloads made easy
  You can now directly download images stored in Spartakus APM. This small improvement simplifies access to visual evidence from inspections and reports.

These incremental changes reflect our ongoing effort to streamline user experience, improve performance, and respond to user feedback.

Conclusion

Each of these updates was built in response to real-world feedback from Spartakus users like you. Whether you’re managing large-scale inspections, planning maintenance rounds, or reviewing historical performance, these changes are designed to help you do it better and with less friction.

We’re continuing to build Spartakus with flexibility, transparency, and ease of use at the core. More updates are already in the pipeline, so stay tuned, and as always, don’t hesitate to share your feedback.

Here’s to a more streamlined, data-driven, and proactive maintenance journey!