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Predictive maintenance is the promise every manufacturer has heard, and the one most often bought too early. Augury and Siemens Senseye can tell you a bearing is failing weeks ahead — provided there is enough sensor history to learn normal from, and provided somebody records what was actually done when a machine was fixed.
Where maintenance is logged as "repaired" with no fault code, the model has failures with no causes and cannot generalise from them. Where a line has run for years without instrumentation, there is no baseline at all. Both are fixable, and neither is fixed by buying the tool.
Quality is the same story. Sight Machine and Instrumental find the deviation that precedes a defect, which assumes the process was stable enough for a deviation to mean something.
This assessment weights Governance & Agility most heavily, then Digital Foundation, and asks what is true of your standard work, your maintenance records and your systems. The report then sequences it: what to fix, what to buy, and which of those two comes first.
Most questions ask which of four specific things are true of your operation — a document that exists, a check that is recorded, a person who owns something. They are matters of fact rather than opinion, and they are written for your industry rather than adapted from a generic template. Four of them, one from each dimension:
You tick what is true. Nothing asks you to rate how good you are, and three of the four dimensions carry no self-rating at all — which is why the score is hard to talk your way past.
Every industry is scored against its own targets. Governance & Agility carries the most weight here, so a gap there costs more than the same gap would elsewhere.
Your report says which of these to buy now, which to wait on, and which are held back by something you have not fixed yet — and which of the ones you already pay for are not yet at full value.
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27 questions, about 15 minutes. Your score is free. The full report is $159, one-time. We take no commission from any tool we name.
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