Reinventing
Industrial maintenance
Since 2001, Fives Maintenance has been reinventing industrial maintenance,
building on more than 200 years of innovation across the Fives Group.
Our experts continuously develop their skills throughout their careers,
supported by processes designed to address every type of equipment across your installed base.
Fives Maintenance combines operational excellence with performance.
Fives Maintenance
Multi-brand industrial maintenance.
Fives Maintenance is the Fives Group subsidiary dedicated to multi-brand industrial maintenance. We deliver performance-based maintenance contracts for manufacturers in the aerospace, rail, logistics and defense industries.
EARNING OUR CUSTOMERS’ TRUST
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A rapidly expanding partnership driven by the latest innovations in dynamic equipment monitoring.
Multiple maintenance contracts, including Europe’s largest hub at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
More than 20 years of maintenance services at Safran sites, complemented by COFRAC-accredited physical measurement expertise supporting NADCAP aerospace certifications.
Fives Maintenance has been the leading maintenance provider for SNCF Technicenters in France since 2009.
Dedicated defense-industry expertise in pyrotechnic environments, backed by ISO 27001 certification and defense-sector qualifications for secure data processing.
Deployment of Puls’Air solutions and connected parcel systems for La Poste Group, including Chronopost, DPD and Colissimo.
Nos certifications
- MASE
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- ISO 45001
- ISO 17025
- Qualiopi
- Cemafroid cat. 1
- EcoVadis Silver
INDUSTRIAL CYBERSECURITY • Certified since January 2026
France’s first industrial maintenance provider certified to ISO 27001
A deliberate commitment driven by a simple reality: data has become one of the most valuable assets for both our customers and industrial operations.
“This level of rigor has sometimes added constraints, both to site-access procedures and data exchanges. Experience has proven us right. Yesterday’s constraint has become today’s assurance.”
Kévin PIERRE-ÉMILE, President, Fives Maintenance
OUR OFFER
Stay ahead
with Fives Maintenance
We support manufacturers in managing their maintenance operations, from one-time service on a single machine to performance-based contracts covering an entire plant or production process.
01.Performance-based
maintenance contracts
Dedicated teams embedded at your site, operating under contracts with measurable performance commitments.
- Preventive, corrective and condition-based maintenance
- Access to our maintenance management tools
- Reliability improvement for existing assets
02.Maintenance Consulting
With Road Partner
We help you improve and manage your maintenance organization, from initial assessment through long-term strategy.
- Maintenance organization maturity assessments
- Maintenance plans and associated job plans
- Equipment reliability studies
- Maintenance strategy development
03.Fives Maintenance
Academy
Our certified training academy supports both our customers and our own teams in continuously developing their capabilities. It is our answer to the industrial maintenance skills shortage.
- Technical trades
- Maintenance engineering and methods
- Safety
- Management
04.Innovation at Fives Maintenance
We are building the future of industrial maintenance through advanced solutions backed by decades of maintenance engineering expertise.
- Monica, our patented portable energy diagnostic solution
- CortX Alchemy, connected industrial data
- Machine monitoring
- Safety built into the system
- Eizi, plant-wide industrial optimization
YOUR INDUSTRY. OUR EXPERTISE.Aerospace, Rail & Transportation, Logistics, Defense
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“Maintenance is not one of our businesses.
It is the only one."Kevin PIERRE-ÉMILE, President, Fives Maintenance
Aerospace Maintenance
More than 200 specialists dedicated to production equipment maintenance. Our first aerospace maintenance contract was signed in 2007.
- Machine tools, robots and composite manufacturing equipment
- Lifting equipment: hoists and overhead cranes
- Chemical, mechanical and thermal surface-treatment lines
- Non-destructive testing equipment
- Dedicated metrology and process-quality monitoring team
- Machine-tool and lifting-equipment instructors
Regions: Île-de-France · Centre-Val de Loire · Occitanie · Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur · Pays de la Loire · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · Hauts-de-France · Grand Est
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Rail & transportATION maintenance
140+ specialists in rail equipment maintenance. Our first rail maintenance contract was signed in 2004.
- Machine tools and robots
- Composite manufacturing equipment
- Lifting equipment, hoists and overhead cranes
- Chemical and mechanical surface-treatment equipment
- Heat-treatment equipment
- Non-destructive testing equipment
- Specialized maintenance technicians
- Maintenance engineers
- Maintenance Instructors
- Team leaders
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Logistics & postal maintenance
200+ specialists in order-picking and sorting systems. Our first postal sorting maintenance contract was signed in 2006.
- Conveyors and transfer systems
- Mail and parcel sorters: tilt-tray, cross-belt, shoe sorter
- Barcode reading arches
- Automation and control systems
- Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS)
- Logistics instructors and maintenance methods engineers
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Defense & manufacturing maintenance
30+ specialists in production equipment maintenance. First defense contract signed in 2004.
- Machine tools, robots and composite machines
- Lifting equipment
- Chemical and mechanical surface treatment equipment
- Thermal treatment equipment
- Non-destructive testing equipment
- Machine-tool and lifting-equipment instructors
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LOCATIONWherever your plants are, we are there
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Fives Maintenance in France
Fives Maintenance operates throughout France, supported by three strategic hubs: Paris-Île-de-France (Montevrain, our headquarters), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Lyon) et Occitanie (Toulouse)… Our network is further supported by 25 field experts operating nationwide.
Fives Maintenance Worldwide
Fives Maintenance operates across five continents. Through our subsidiary in Mexico and nine Fives Group regional offices, we combine local market presence with our industrial maintenance expertise and commercial network.
A PASSION FOR PERFORMANCE
At Fives Maintenance, maintenance professionals train maintenance professionals
Driven by an advanced people-development strategy, Fives Maintenance continuously maintains and strengthens the expertise of its teams. The creation of Fives Maintenance Academy brings more than 25 years of field experience into the future of the company. We train both our own teams and yours to achieve higher levels of operational performance.
| 700 | +95% | +85% |
| employees | permanent employment rate | internal satisfaction rate* |
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* Happy@Fives 2025 survey
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS MEASUREOur performance is measured by results,
not simply by hours worked
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Results measured on customer installations. Actual gains depend on equipment type, operating conditions and contract scope.
THREE SITES. THREE CHALLENGES. THREE SUCCESS STORIES.
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LOGISTICS · PARCEL SORTINGPatented
parcel blow-off system
Parcels that fall between sorter trays are automatically detected and ejected. The solution is non-intrusive, independent of the existing installation and maintenance-free, eliminating production shutdowns previously required to retrieve trapped parcels.
- +15% hourly throughput
- 100% detection rate
CONNECTED INSTALLED BASEConnected
machine-fleet monitoring
Continuous operating-time monitoring, trend analysis, measured impact of each preventive action, root-cause identification and Overall Equipment Effectiveness monitoring across the entire installed base.
- 15+ complex repair processes integrated
- 400 hours of machine downtime avoided
RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENTVibration analysis
for logistics elevators
Non-intrusive sensors provide in-depth vibration analysis and continuous monitoring. Detailed reporting combines maintenance history with cost-benefit tracking for each intervention.
- Failures identified before breakdown
- Zero breakdowns following preventive maintenance
OUR STRUCTURAL ADVANTAGEBenefit from more than 25 years of experience
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ENERGY PERFORMANCE
The BEST energy is the energy your machines DON’T waste
We measure what your installed equipment actually consumes, machine by machine, then act on the assets you already own. No equipment replacement. No major capital investment program.
- Patented on-site diagnostic solution
- Continuous energy-consumption monitoring
- All machine types, all brands
- Vendor-agnostic, non-intrusive connectivity
MAINTENANCE NEWS & INSIGHTSWhat’s changing in industrial maintenance and what we have to say about it
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Fives, the leader in the maintenance of installations and tools (I&T) in France, will continue as I&T maintenance provider at the SNCF Technicentres.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
The questions we’re asked most often about industrial maintenance.
A performance-based maintenance contract commits the service provider to measurable outcomes, such as equipment availability, response times or energy consumption, rather than a fixed number of labor hours.
Performance indicators are jointly defined and reviewed throughout the contract.
Aerospace, rail and transportation, logistics and postal services, defense and manufacturing.
Our 700 maintenance professionals support more than 70 customer sites.
Machine tools and robots, surface-treatment lines, parcel and mail sorters, order-picking systems, lifting equipment, industrial refrigeration and HVAC systems, coordinate measuring machines and X-ray inspection systems.
We connect equipment using non-intrusive, high-frequency data acquisition, then analyze shop-floor data to identify performance drift before failure occurs.
The solution is deployed through the Alchemy platform and supports equipment from any manufacturer and any generation.
Yes.
We operate directly in Mexico and work through a network of regional offices supported by Fives Group entities in the United States, the Gulf region, India, South Africa and Australia.
Yes.
Through Fives Academy, our Qualiopi-certified training organization, we have delivered more than 7,700 hours of training, either directly at customer sites or in our fully equipped training facility.