Guidewheel Launches New AI-Driven Predictive Maintenance Solution to Prevent Machine Downtime and Failures
01 July 2024 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Guidewheel, the leading AI-powered FactoryOps platform, today
announced the launch of Scout, a new product to help manufacturers
predict maintenance needs and detect early warning signals of
issues before they lead to machine downtime or failure. This new
AI-driven solution continuously analyzes data about machine
performance to detect anomalies and alert the team to issues they
need to know about.
Issues that begin as small changes in machine performance often
develop into quality problems, preventable downtime, and even
catastrophic failure. Too many manufacturers only detect these
issues when it’s too late, driving lost production and unforeseen
maintenance costs, and shortening the lifespan of critical
equipment. Until now, most solutions designed to address these
issues have relied on highly invasive vibration sensors, cost tens
of thousands of dollars, or have been siloed from the systems plant
floor teams use day-to-day, limiting their adoption and
effectiveness.
“Managing change on the plant floor is challenging,” said Lauren
Dunford, CEO and Co-Founder of Guidewheel. “That’s why Scout uses
the same features and functionality that teams using Guidewheel are
already using in their daily workflow. And we’re leveraging
advanced AI to detect the signals that even the most experienced
teams would miss. A predictive maintenance solution that can be
turned on without any additional hardware, requires no additional
training, and is powered by the most advanced AI available—that’s
what we thought was missing from the market.”
Key capabilities of Scout include:
- Predictive AI - Advanced AI models evaluate minute-level
data about machine performance. By evaluating a number of power
variables simultaneously, Scout detects the small, imperceptible
changes that are early warnings of a potential issue or
failure.
- Early warning system - When a deviation from standard is
detected, Scout sends an alert so your team can take action. Scout
uses the same alerting functionality as the core Guidewheel
platform, making it seamless for manufacturers to integrate into
their daily workflow.
- Self-learning - The events, actions taken, and full
context surrounding them are logged in Guidewheel, providing a full
audit trail. This equips teams to perform detailed root-cause
analysis, and enables Scout to learn, getting smarter and more
predictive over time.
“Scout has already prevented significant issues for a number of
manufacturers,” said Kevin Earabino, Head of Customer Experience at
Guidewheel. “One of our customers is a Fortune 500 automotive
manufacturer. Every minute of downtime costs them thousands of
dollars. Scout quickly paid for itself by alerting the team to some
abnormal conditions with one of their machines. The team
investigated and found that a critical motor was slowly failing. If
they hadn’t caught it when they did, the entire line would have
gone down or worse, that critical piece of equipment would have
failed. But Scout protected them from these outcomes, saving them
tens of thousands of dollars in the process.”
Scout is available for Guidewheel customers today. To learn
more, visit https://guidewheel.com/scout.
About Guidewheel
Guidewheel is on a mission to empower all the world's factories
to reach sustainable peak performance. Its AI-powered FactoryOps
platform makes the power of the cloud accessible to any factory.
Guidewheel clips onto any machine to turn its real-time “heartbeat”
into a connected, active learning system that empowers teams to
reduce lost production time, increase efficiency, and perform
better and better over time. A global software company founded out
of Stanford, Guidewheel is backed by top investors including
Greycroft and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, was named a Tech
Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and works with hundreds of
manufacturers across the globe.
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