MachineSense partners with Siemens To Deliver First Vertically Integrated IIoT Solution For Power Quality Technology

  BALTIMORE, MD - 05/15/2018 (PRESS RELEASE JET)

MachineSense, LLC announced today that they are demonstrating MachineSense’s Power Analyzer product on the Siemens’ MindSphere IoT platform at NPE2018. MachineSense Power Analyzer is the first vertically integrated IIoT solution in Siemens’ MindSphere Platform that offers power quality monitoring, energy management, predictive and preventative maintenance and machine utilization as a MindSphere Application. 

MachineSense is also announcing today that it has joined the global MindSphere Partner Program as a Silver partner, which will provide MachineSense’s technical staff access to Siemens’ MindSphere curriculum, as well as access to other MindSphere ecosystem partners. These partners can complement the capabilities of Siemens and MachineSense, thereby furnishing customers in the manufacturing and commercial building industries with complete solutions and helping them achieve their desired business outcomes.

“This partnership with Siemens will allow MachineSense to penetrate deep into the manufacturing and commercial building base, where power quality is increasingly becoming an issue for safe operation and expensive repairs and replacement of the machinery,” said MachineSense co-founder Conrad Bessemer.

MachineSense’s Power Analyzer series is designed to help diagnose everyday electrical issues and present them in a way that can be easily understood by plant maintenance and management alike, regardless of experience on electrical components and related issues. “The technology is one of the most comprehensive series of vertical IIoT products for power quality, predictive and preventative maintenance, energy monitoring and machine utilization available for factories and commercial buildings,” Bessemer said.

“MachineSense delivers tremendous value to industrial and infrastructure consumers through the company’s vertically integrated solutions,” said Paul Kaeley, senior vice president, global partner ecosystem at Siemens PLM Software. “We are excited to have MachineSense join the MindSphere ecosystem as a partner so that together we can address operational challenges around power quality, predictive and preventive maintenance, and energy efficiency using MindSphere.”

MindSphere is the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens that connects products, plants, systems, and machines, enabling businesses to harness the wealth of data generated by the Internet of Things (IoT) with advanced analytics. MindSphere Application Centers have been designed to develop new business models, digital solutions and services, as well as industrial applications in focus verticals using MindSphere.

Bessemer explained, “Popular energy saving initiatives, like LED lighting and variable speed motor drives, have unknowingly led to higher harmonic distortion levels in most manufacturing plants and commercial buildings. These harmonics can cause substantial energy waste in unrelated areas of the facility.  Harmonics and other power quality problems also contribute to prematurely failed electrical devices like utility motors in compressors and HVAC systems.  These harmful conditions can be diagnosed without a technical expert using the MachineSense Power Analyzer, available on Siemens’ Mindsphere IoT platform."

The MachineSense Power Analyzer product line is uniquely capable because of its Edge Analytic Engine,” said MachineSense co-founder and CTO, Dr. Biplab Pal. He went on to add, “Extremely high velocity current and voltage data is analyzed for its anomaly and machine health signature 24/7 in its Edge. Power Analyzer has the most comprehensive range of power quality measurements for diagnosis of electrical lines. Coupled with cloud database and Edge computation, MachineSense’s Power Analyzer provides an extensive range of useful analytics for machines in addition to power quality – such as energy, utilization, utilization under load, preventative and predictive maintenance advice, and more. No other system can offer such a comprehensive range of Industrial 4.0 analytics in a single sensor suite.”

Both companies are leveraging the IIoT partnership to offer the marketplace a reliable and expansive predictive and prescriptive maintenance solution while maintaining leadership positions in IIoT and industrial manufacturing arenas.

About MachineSense, LLC. 

Headquartered in Baltimore, USA, with company-owned R&D facilities in Kolkata, India, MachineSense has developed a patented industrial IoT system for predictive and prescriptive maintenance of machines, using electricity and vibration analytics. The company aims to build an IIoT platform for factory and building utilities that includes electricity, compressed air, water, HVAC, vacuum, etc. For more details, visit, www.machinesense.com.