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Crane AI Shield · An Infinite Uptime Innovation

Your crane's worst fault is developing right now. You're not seeing it.

19 failure modes. Every fault tells your team what to fix, when, and why — not a graph to investigate, not an alarm to chase.

946 Plants
Digitalized
157,115 Hours
Saved
99% Prescriptions Acted On
Crane AI Shield IoT vibration sensor mounted on heavy-duty motor housing in plant
vEdge vSense Mounted on Hoist Motor Gearbox EOT Crane

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What Crane AI Shield Catches

Bearing seizure on the main hoist

the motor bearing turns quietly inside a sealed housing through 300–400 lift cycles a shift. By the time it's audible, it's already gone.

Gearbox failure under load

standard sensors stop recording exactly when the crane is stressed. Gear mesh faults emerge at peak torque — invisible to time-based sampling.

Lubrication collapse before it's visible

vibration energy can rise 40× in a single week with no thermal or acoustic symptom. A re-lube that costs minutes gets missed until it costs a motor.

How Crane AI Shield Works

01

RPM-triggered capture

Dynamic monitoring algorithm fires only at stable speed intervals. This eliminates heavy operational acceleration and deceleration noise entirely, delivering ultra-clean vibration data.

02

Full drive-train coverage

19 failure modes tracked in parallel — mechanical and gear faults across motor, gearbox, and rope drum.

03

Prescriptive work orders

No abstract graphs or alarm codes for plant engineers to decode. Instead, PlantOS™ issues explicit prescriptive directives: what tool to use, when to fix it, and the precise mechanical logic why.

04

Closed-loop validation

Every corrective maintenance task logged is verified. Closing a work order logs physical performance changes directly back to our models, sharpening the next diagnostic cycle.

Proven Industrial Impact

90 Days
Advance Detection Window
4 Hours
Unplanned Downtime Saved / Incident
97%
Average Vibration Reduction
EOT Crane Bearing

90-Day Warning Prevents Major Hoist Bearing Failure

A steel melt-shop EOT crane spent 90 days building toward a main hoist bearing failure with no operational symptom. PlantOS™ read the acceleration trend from 35 to 190 (m/s²)², issued the prescription on December 29, 2025. Relubrication was completed February 3, 2026 during a planned window. No unplanned stop. No bay outage.

Main Hoist Bearing Acceleration Trend DE Bearing Analysis
BASELINE DEVELOPING CRITICAL POST-ACTION → RECOVERY Baseline ~43 m/s² 250 200 150 100 50 0 Total Acceleration (m/s²) 24 Nov 01 Dec 08 Dec 15 Dec 22 Dec 29 Dec 05 Jan 12 Jan 19 Jan Dec 16 • Prescription raised to stakeholders 232 m/s² ≈ 5× baseline Dec 28 • Action taken

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