Fabrico and Infor EAM are not direct competitors at the same market tier.
See our broader guide to EAM vs CMMS.
Infor EAM is an enterprise-grade platform with implementation costs measured in hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, designed for large process manufacturers with an amount that varies+ assets and complex multi-site maintenance management programs.
Fabrico is a mid-market OEE and CMMS platform with faster implementation timelines and more accessible pricing, designed for manufacturers who want integrated production monitoring and maintenance management without enterprise EAM complexity and cost.The comparison becomes relevant in two specific scenarios.
First, for mid-to-large manufacturers evaluating Fabrico for their first serious CMMS implementation who are wondering whether they should consider enterprise EAM from the start rather than a mid-market platform.
Second, for large manufacturers on Infor EAM who are considering adding Fabrico as a production floor OEE monitoring layer above their existing Infor EAM deployment.For the second scenario.
Infor EAM plus Fabrico OEE, the architecture question is similar to the SAP PM case: does adding a connected OEE layer on top of existing Infor EAM infrastructure create sufficient value to justify the integration investment and dual-system management overhead?
The answer depends heavily on whether OEE monitoring is currently absent or inadequate in the Infor EAM environment, and whether the production floor interaction model of Infor EAM is creating adoption problems that a purpose-built OEE+CMMS platform would solve.
Infor EAM's genuine strengths are in enterprise asset management depth: multi-level asset hierarchies for complex process plant structures, comprehensive PM scheduling and maintenance route management, safety permit integration, calibration management, and deep integration with Infor ERP (M3 for process industries, LN for discrete manufacturing).
For large process manufacturers running Infor ERP, the native Infor EAM-to-ERP integration is a significant operational and financial control advantage.The OEE gap in Infor EAM is similar to SAP PM and Oracle EAM: there is limited native, real-time OEE monitoring capability.
Infor has invested in IoT and AI platforms (Infor Coleman, Infor Birst analytics) that can be connected to Infor EAM for condition monitoring and asset health analytics, but a comprehensive OEE monitoring solution, automated PLC data collection
real-time Availability/Performance/Quality dashboards, shift performance reporting, requires either Infor's manufacturing-specific add-ons or a third-party OEE platform.For Infor EAM users who want OEE monitoring, the evaluation should include both Infor's own production monitoring tools (Infor Manufacturing Execution or Infor GT Nexus for discrete manufacturers) and third-party OEE platforms like Fabrico.
Infor's own tools have tighter native integration but may be less focused on OEE-specific depth; Fabrico has purpose-built OEE capability but requires custom integration to Infor EAM. The right choice depends on whether Infor's ecosystem completeness or OEE-specific depth is the higher priority.
Fabrico is the right choice when: the manufacturer does not currently have Infor EAM (evaluating fresh) and wants an integrated OEE+CMMS platform without enterprise EAM complexity; or when Infor EAM is deployed but OEE monitoring is the primary gap that Infor's own tools do not adequately fill.
In both cases, Fabrico delivers the production floor OEE visibility and connected maintenance management that improves shift-level decision-making in ways that Infor EAM alone is less designed to provide.Infor EAM is the right choice when: the manufacturer is large (an amount that varies+ employees, an amount that varies+ assets) with complex multi-site process manufacturing that requires enterprise EAM depth
the manufacturer runs Infor M3 or LN ERP where native Infor integration provides substantial data quality and financial control benefits
or the maintenance management complexity, safety permit management, calibration compliance, regulatory inspection tracking, exceeds what mid-market CMMS platforms including Fabrico's CMMS module can handle.For manufacturers already on Infor EAM who are evaluating adding Fabrico for OEE monitoring, the integration architecture needs to be designed carefully.
Fabrico connects to PLCs via OPC-UA for OEE data collection; the connection to Infor EAM for work order synchronization is a separate integration layer.
If Infor already has IoT connectivity infrastructure (Infor OS or Infor Coleman data platform), using this infrastructure as the intermediary between production floor data and both OEE analytics and Infor EAM maintenance records reduces the total integration complexity and keeps Infor as the central data hub for the manufacturing operations technology stack.
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