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Case study — Manufacturing · Industry 4.0

Predictive Maintenance

Sensor-driven predictive maintenance and production monitoring across three plants for an industrial equipment manufacturer.

Client
Industrial equipment manufacturer
Scope
IoT · Predictive maintenance · Engineering
Timeline
8 months
Footprint
3 plants · 400+ connected machines
Predictive Maintenance

01 — Challenge

Unplanned downtime was costing more each quarter than the maintenance program meant to prevent it.

Maintenance ran on fixed schedules, not machine condition — some equipment was serviced too often, some failed before its turn came up.

Three plants tracked machine health differently, so there was no single view of where the next failure was likely to happen.

02 — Approach

PHASE 01 Research Audited sensor coverage and failure history across all three plants.
PHASE 02 Sensor & data strategy Standardized telemetry collection and built the data pipeline models would train on.
PHASE 03 Development Trained failure-prediction models per machine class and wired them into live dashboards.
PHASE 04 Rollout Piloted on the highest-failure line, then expanded plant by plant.

03 — Solution

Built for the workflow

01

Predictive maintenance models

Failure risk scored per machine, days ahead of the point where fixed schedules would have caught it.

02

MES integration

Maintenance signals flow directly into existing MES workflows — no new system for technicians to learn.

03

Live production monitoring

Real-time status across all three plants in one view.

04

IoT dashboards

Plant managers see risk and throughput side by side, not in separate reports.

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04 — Outcome

31%
Drop in unplanned downtime
400+
Machines connected
3
Plants live
4.6x
ROI in year one
“We stopped finding out about failures from the production line. We find out from the dashboard, days earlier.”
Director of Plant Operations — Industrial equipment manufacturer

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