Existing equipment is hard to assess
Older machines rarely come with built-in condition data. What you know comes from a technician's ear, a monthly reading, or the alarm that fires when the machine trips.
Industrial AI|Singapore
A health check for the machines your factory depends on.
A short observation period on the motors, pumps, fans and other rotating equipment you already run. A written report per machine: how it behaves, whether it is changing, and where to look first. Then a decision about what to do next.
Concepts in development, open for pilot conversations with Singapore manufacturers. Nothing on this page is a measured result.
Equipment behaviourIllustrative concept
Learned normalMachine behaviourChange worth a look
Amber: maintenance review suggested
An unusual signal is not automatically a fault. The next step is to investigate.
The gap
Your machines tell you when something is wrong. What if they could tell you sooner?
Most factories already have a red alarm: the trip, the stop, the breakdown. What is often missing is the earlier signal that a machine has started to behave differently from its own normal.
Unplanned stoppages are expensive
A failed pump or fan stops a line, pulls people off planned work and forces an emergency repair at short notice and high cost.
Inspections leave gaps between readings
Route-based inspections are useful, but a machine can change in the weeks between visits. Between one reading and the next, a change can go unnoticed.
The idea
An amber warning before the red alarm.
Learn what normal looks like for one specific machine. Watch for departures from it. Bring those departures to the people who know the machine, with the evidence attached.
Learn normal
Observe the machine's vibration and sound for a defined period and record its usual pattern across its operating states.
Notice change
Compare what the machine does now with what it usually did. Not a generic model of all machines: this machine, in this plant.
Raise an amber
When behaviour moves outside the learned pattern, the change is flagged with what triggered it. The aim is a notice before the trip, the machine's own protective stop. Not a diagnosis.
Review and decide
The maintenance team checks the machine, records what was found, and the decision is kept with the evidence.
An amber warning is a prompt to look, not a diagnosis. It says the machine has changed from its own usual behaviour. A changed operating condition can look the same as early wear, which is why review by people is part of the concept, not an afterthought.
What we are exploring
Three concepts and one future exploration.
These are concept descriptions, not finished products. We are using them to find out which problems manufacturers want solved first.
Concept 01|First step
Machine Health Snapshot
What if you could give your most important machines a health check?
A short period of machine observation that could reveal unusual vibration, sound or operating patterns conventional inspections may overlook. A written picture of how the machine behaves and whether it is changing, before deciding on repair, replacement or ongoing monitoring.
About the Snapshot conceptConcept 02|Ongoing
Machine Health Watch
What if your critical machines could alert you when their behaviour changes?
Ongoing monitoring that learns a machine's behaviour and brings unusual patterns to the maintenance team's attention, with review by a person before anyone is asked to act. A layer of visibility between routine inspections and machine alarms.
About the Watch conceptConcept 03|After a repair or upgrade
Performance Verification
You repaired or upgraded a machine. Can you show that its condition actually improved? Before-and-after measurement following maintenance, component replacement or equipment upgrades.
About Performance VerificationConcept 04|Future exploration
Intelligent Inspection Rounds
Portable, multi-sensor inspections that gather a richer picture of machine health during a defined observation period, without instrumenting the entire factory permanently. An exploration, not an offer.
About Inspection RoundsPilot programme
Explore a pilot for your factory.
We are inviting Singapore manufacturers to discuss selected equipment challenges and evaluate whether a focused machine-health pilot would be worthwhile. Potential starting points: motors, pumps, fans, blowers and other rotating equipment.
Path 1
I'm a manufacturer
Discuss a machine or production reliability problem on your floor.
Start a conversationPath 2
I'm a service provider or OEM
Explore joint diagnostics, customer pilots or verification services.
Talk about working togetherPath 3
I'm a technology or ecosystem partner
Explore technical validation, implementation or commercial collaboration.
Talk about collaboration
About the pilot programme
Pilot scope and availability subject to technical feasibility and mutual agreement.
Plain statement
What we say, and what we do not say.
We say
- Detection of change. The aim is a notice when a machine stops behaving like itself, before its alarm. A pilot measures whether that happens.
- Reports in your units. Findings are written in the vibration units and language your maintenance team already uses.
- A limited scope to start. A few machines, a defined period, a written result, then a decision about whether to continue.
- Results that are measured. Useful and false notices are counted in every pilot and reported whatever they show. Missed events and warning time need longer monitoring, and are reported where they occur.
We do not say
- That we can name the exact failure in advance. An amber warning says something changed. People decide what it means.
- That software replaces your maintenance team. The concept depends on them.
- That this is tested across hundreds of plants. Robometic is at the start, and is inviting Singapore manufacturers to test these concepts now.
- That uncertainty goes away. False alarms are the biggest credibility risk in this field. The design treats them as a central problem, not an afterthought.