Bearings confess in frequencies. We speak frequency.
Tri-axial sensors on spindles, gearboxes and drives, with live FFT that separates bearing defects from imbalance, misalignment and looseness, against each machine's own baseline. The warning names the component, not just a number.
The most expensive sound in a plant is the one nobody measured.
Heard when it is loud
By the time a bearing is audible it is weeks past the cheap repair. Vibration moves long before ears and thermometers do.
One threshold fits none
A 40-tonne press and a 5 kW spindle do not share a healthy level. Per-machine baselines beat handbook limits.
Spectra without a story
A raw FFT informs nobody. MachineWise says: inner-race defect rising on the spindle front bearing, estimate eleven days.
Where does your machine sit on the ISO scale?
Pick a machine class and move the velocity. The zones are the ISO 10816-1 guideline boundaries every maintenance engineer knows.
ISO zones are a floor, not the method. Two identical machines on different foundations have different healthy levels, so MachineWise alerts on each machine's own learned baseline and uses the zone as a sanity check. Look up defect frequencies for your bearings in the bearing calculator.
ISO 10816-1 GUIDELINE BOUNDARIES (VELOCITY RMS, 10–1000 HZ). ISO 20816 SUPERSEDES PARTS OF 10816; CHECK THE PART THAT APPLIES TO YOUR MACHINE.
Each fault has its own fingerprint in the spectrum.
This is how MachineWise tells a balancing job from a bearing change before anyone opens the machine.
From a sensor on a housing to a named part.
Mount
Tri-axial sensors at the bearing positions that matter. No machining, no downtime.
Sample
Sampling set for the speed range that machine actually runs, with live speed where available.
Transform
FFT and envelope analysis at the edge. Defect frequencies tracked at the real running speed.
Baseline
Each machine learns its own healthy signature. Alerts fire on sustained slopes, not single spikes.
Alert
Plain-language diagnosis with confidence, to WhatsApp and a maintenance ticket in one tap.
Crashes cannot be predicted. They can be caught.
Recorded the instant it happens
A crash produces an acceleration signature nothing in normal cutting resembles. High-rate sampling registers the event instead of averaging it away.
Traced to a program, job and shift
The impact is timestamped against the machine state, so it can be investigated and attributed rather than discovered later in the scrap.
Before and after, compared
A spindle that has taken a hit often runs differently from then on. A marked event makes the later change in signature interpretable.
Five ways to maintain a machine. One platform runs all of them.
Most plants run all five at once on different machines, and that is correct. A spare-rich pump can run to failure; a constraint CNC cannot. MachineWise lets each machine sit on the stage its cost of failure justifies.
Everything that sits under vibration monitoring.
Straight answers.
What is vibration monitoring?
Which sensors does MachineWise use?
What are ISO 10816 and ISO 20816?
How early can vibration monitoring detect a bearing fault?
Can it detect spindle crashes?
Which machines can be monitored?
Put a sensor on the machine you can least afford to lose.
Start with one critical spindle, gearbox or fan. See its spectrum, baseline and first alerts, with your data on-premises throughout.