About MachineWise

Three engineers. One obsession: machines that explain themselves.

MachineWise started in 2023 in Satara, Maharashtra — close enough to the machine shops we grew up around to hear them. Today, 150+ plants and 2,000+ machines across India run on the platform we build, board to browser.

The story

We didn't start with software. We started with a question.

THE QUESTION

"How much did this machine actually run today?"

Nobody in the shop could answer with a number. Every answer was a feeling. We decided Indian manufacturing deserved facts — at a price an MSME could say yes to.

2021–2023 · THE HARD WAY

Hardware, software and AI — in-house

We designed our own gateway boards, wrote our own controller drivers, and trained our own models — because stitched-together platforms fail on real Indian shop floors.

SINCE 15 AUG 2023

150+ plants, 10+ states, 24 people

From Ludhiana to Coimbatore, defence suppliers to family-run job shops — one platform, supported in your time zone, by people who answer the phone.

The founders

Built by three engineers who grew up around machine shops.

Founded, engineered and supported from Satara, Maharashtra — hardware, software and AI under one roof, a phone call away from every plant we serve.

Shrinivas Wathare, Co-founder and Director of MachineWise

Shrinivas Wathare

CO-FOUNDER · DIRECTOR

Owns the finances and the account books, and holds the long view — the one that keeps ambitious plans scalable and hard for anyone outside to copy. Doubles as Chief Motivation Officer for a team that stays young at heart.

Sourabh Wathare, Co-founder, Operations of MachineWise

Sourabh Wathare

CO-FOUNDER · OPERATIONS

Owns the platform and hardware — drivers, dashboards and the AI suite. Believes software should be judged by whether an operator uses it without being told twice.

Omkar Wathare, Co-founder and CEO of MachineWise

Omkar Wathare

CO-FOUNDER · CEO

Owns vision, customers and growth. The founder who has walked more shop floors than the sales team combined — and still does every major deployment's first visit.

How we work

Principles we don't negotiate.

01

Honest by design

Dashboards show rich data where machines support it and clean cycle states where they don't. No fake precision, ever.

02

Rupees, not dashboards

Every feature must trace to money saved or capacity found. If it can't be priced, it's decoration.

03

MSME-first

Priced, deployed and supported for the plants that make India — not just the ones with IT departments.

2023Founded in Satara, Maharashtra
24Engineers, one roof — hardware to AI
15+States with live deployments
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At a glance

MachineWise, in six numbers.

2023Founded on 15 August, after two years of groundwork
SataraHeadquarters, Maharashtra
150+Plants running MachineWise
2,000+Machines connected
10+States, across 21 cities
In-houseHardware, software and AI
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    Shrinivas Wathare, Co-founder and Director of MachineWise
    Co-founder · Director
    Satara, Maharashtra
    Founder profile
    Shrinivas Wathare

    Owns the finances and the account books, and holds the long view: the one that keeps ambitious plans scalable and hard for anyone outside to copy.

    Owns
    • Finance and the account books
    • Company structure and long-range planning
    • Keeping growth scalable, and hard to copy
    • Team morale, as the self-appointed Chief Motivation Officer
    Focus
    FinanceStructureLong-range planningPeople
    Sourabh Wathare, Co-founder, Operations of MachineWise
    Co-founder · Operations
    Satara, Maharashtra
    Founder profile
    Sourabh Wathare

    Owns the platform and the hardware: controller drivers, dashboards and the MachineWise AI suite. Believes software should be judged by whether an operator uses it without being told twice.

    Background

    Spent 2021 to 2023 building the groundwork MachineWise launched on: machine drivers, the communication layer and the platform architecture. The company went live on 15 August 2023 and now serves defence, aerospace, automotive, general engineering and process plants.

    Owns
    • Controller integration across FANUC, Siemens, Mitsubishi and Haas machines
    • In-house gateway hardware for legacy and conventional machines
    • Dashboards and analytics, from OEE to SPC/Cpk and MTBF/MTTR
    • The MachineWise AI suite and shop-floor deployments
    Focus
    Industrial IoTCNC integrationManufacturing analyticsHardware
    Omkar Wathare, Co-founder and CEO of MachineWise
    Co-founder · CEO
    Satara, Maharashtra
    Founder profile
    Omkar Wathare

    Owns vision, customers and growth. The founder who has walked more shop floors than the sales team combined, and still does every major deployment's first visit.

    Owns
    • Company vision and direction
    • Customer success and key accounts
    • Sales, finance and growth
    • The first visit on every major deployment
    Focus
    VisionCustomersSalesGrowth
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