Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance Technology Expertise

Consulting and Contract Engineering Services

Predictive Maintenance dashboard applies machine learning to your asset health indicator trends.

Enhance your Product Reliability and Services Value with Condition Monitoring Instrumentation.

The rapid proliferation of new condition monitoring technologies opens up promising capabilities to upgrade your product and service offerings. But the process of evaluating complex technology options brings increased uncertainty, and with it risk of wasting time, energy and money.

Our technologists can help you navigate this terrain and accelerate the addition of effective condition monitoring instrumentation to your machine - and compelling value to your customers.

Ed Spence is an experienced technologist who loves to define new solutions, explore new technologies and solve client problems.

Partner With Experienced Technologists.

Many OEMs and machine makers interested in adding condition monitoring sensors to their products and services are enticed by IIoT software vendors with dazzling cloud dashboards but who are new to the art of vibration measurement and signal processing. 

We have proven expertise in vibration sensors, condition monitoring, signal processing and advanced data analytics for predictive maintenance, we can help with your technology choices and assessment.

The Machine Instrumentation Group provides a full suite of contract engineering services.

Hardware, Software and Mechanical Engineering

Our network of collaborators and contractors represent a broad array of technical competencies, with expertise in:

  • Vibration sensor technology and design

  • Vibration measurement and signal processing

  • Advanced data analytics for predictive maintenance

  • IoT stack and embedded solutions

  • Analog and digital electronics design

  • Mechanical and enclosure design

Our Agile-like collaboration process results in higher client satisfaction.

How We Work With You

Our collaborators of multi-disciplinary contract engineers will help you define, design and build high-fidelity IIoT sensor solutions.

We can also curate existing COTS solutions that will help your program gain traction and accelerate toward your objectives.

We’ll work with you to:

  • Research, curate and evaluate technology options, considering COTS solutions in a make-versus-buy decision process

  • Help you define a roadmap toward a compelling value proposition, including prototyping a proof of concept (POC) as a technology demonstration or defining and developing a more customer-ready minimum viable product (MVP)

  • Identify and vet well-qualified contract engineering service providers

  • Document a request for proposal (RFP)

  • Solicit bids and facilitate vendor engagement to support your project or program goals

Ed out field testing some wireless condition monitoring sensors.

IIot Technology Curation for Maintenance Practitioners

Don’t Waste Time and Money on a Solution that Isn’t a Good Fit

If you’re a maintenance practitioner ready to explore IIoT to complement your route-based data collection program for machines that are difficult or unsafe to visit regularly, you know that vendor claims are difficult to sort out. Pilot testing a solution that is not the right fit will cost you time, energy and money.

Let us help you sort through the options - even if it means testing a solution ourselves!

The Art of Condition Monitoring is Complex.

You Don’t have to Tackle it Alone.

We are well versed in the technologies impacting the practice of condition monitoring — MEMS sensor technology, improvements in wireless protocols (such as BLE) and data engineering approaches to machine monitoring, diagnostics and predictive maintenance.

Whether you need contract engineering specialists to fill in gaps on your team, a full development team for that project stuck on the back burner or a well-versed consultant to collaborate on your strategy, we can help.

1. Clarify your strategy

2. Curate technologies

3. Develop, test and validate