One of the key benefits of continuous condition monitoring is that it acts as an early warning system – giving maintenance teams advance notice of subtle changes that, if left unattended could degrade into more permanent damage or a failure. In late June, one of our chemical and fertiliser manufacturing customers provided feedback to us […]
Show Me The Value – Feedback from a Global Mining Customer
MOVUS received great feedback from one of our global mining customers last week as FitMachine again demonstrated its value as the world’s leading continuous condition monitoring solution. This post is a summary of the conversation between this customer and our global engineering partner ALS (who manage this relationship). After this good pick up, reducing […]
AMGC partners with MOVUS to help Australian manufacturers go digital
As many of us know, manufacturing in Australia continues to be a vital contributor to our economy, the sector continues to grow and turn out world leading products. But there is continued pressure on the sector – Are we cost competitive? Is our labour cost too high? Can we innovate? How do we grow when […]
Bringing Maintenance Into the Fourth Industrial Revolution
MOVUS was founded by CEO Brad Parsons in January 2015, initially starting out of The University of Queensland’s iLab, a supporter of technologically cutting-edge entrepreneurial start-up businesses. MOVUS’ flagship product, the FitMachine, provides an end-to-end equipment monitoring solution for industrial machinery using the latest machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. Potential for Machine Monitoring According […]
Australian Manufacturing: Time to Invest is Now
Scenario According to the Australian Industry Group (Ai Group), our national Manufacturing industry has been expanding consistently with 25 months of uninterrupted growth (1), the longest run since 2005. On the other hand, it is no secret the sector is under pressure to transform. Traditional production methods and business models are being disrupted as digital […]
The Shift from Preventive to Condition-Based Maintenance
The current shift from Preventive to Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) deserves some reflection. Until recently, CBM required the implementation of costly monitoring equipment and skilled technical analysts to be effective, limiting its application. The development of low cost machine condition sensors coupled with artificial intelligence is disrupting the industry and re-writing the rules of maintenance regimes. […]
FitMachine Product Update, October 2018
Technology continues to be a key component of MOVUS’ market leadership and our investment remains strong. The latest release of our FitMachine technology stack has several exciting new developments, with more on the way. In brief, Customer self-install now makes installation and onboarding of MOVUS FitMachines safe and easy The latest release of our API […]
Two New Predictive Maintenance Projects Kick Off in Food Manufacturing
The MOVUS Customer Success team were very busy crisscrossing rural Victoria last week as two new Predictive Maintenance projects kicked off. The first FitMachine Pilot Project in Western Victoria was up and running in less than half a day with one of Australia’s major dairy brands. The second project in Eastern Victoria has FitMachine deployed […]
MOVUS Exhibiting at Asset Management Reimagined
The MOVUS team will be exhibiting our FitMachine solution at Asset Management Reimagined in Melbourne on 6 & 7 August at the Pullman Hotel Albert Park. Simple But Powerful Predictive Maintenance Capability Predictive maintenance and its potential impact on industrial assets is a hot topic at the moment. Asset owners want – visibility on utilisation, […]
Reactive Maintenance vs Predictive Maintenance
There’s a lot of really good content being published across the web and particularly on LinkedIn in relation to predictive maintenance and the benefits it delivers over traditional maintenance practices. Many of the conversations that I have with MOVUS prospects ends up focused around what hidden costs and issues they can overcome by starting the […]