Machinery Health Management
Prediction and Protection Technologies Improve Reliability in the Plant
Keep plant assets available and producing revenue by applying predictive intelligence and field diagnostics to your monitored assets
It costs approximately 50% more to repair a failed asset than if the problem had been addressed prior to failure. Whether your problem asset is part of a machine train or a field device, applying predictive intelligence can mean the difference between making or missing production goals.
For rotating equipment, predictive intelligence can determine asset health, allowing you to reduce scheduled and unscheduled downtime, drive down maintenance costs and increase safety and availability. Predictive diagnostics on field devices enable you to keep them configured, calibrated, and operating effectively, protecting the reliability of your production equipment.
And when critical assets require protection monitoring, API-compliant protection capabilities can be integrated with prediction so you can operate your plant safely and with confidence.
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AI-driven Machinery Health Management
Asset monitoring technologies that detect vibration anomalies, imbalance, bearing degradation, and other failure modes using AI-powered intelligent sensing and high‑resolution analytics.
AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor
Cloud-ready, AI-powered wireless monitoring collects full vibration data from more rotating assets in more locations over a self-organizing wireless network — delivering real-time insights for predictive maintenance and greater machinery reliability.
Making the Right Choice in Wireless Vibration Monitoring
The wireless vibration market is crowded with look‑alike sensors and short‑lived start‑ups—but the differences in data quality, analytics, and long‑term performance are anything but subtle. Emerson’s AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor stands apart with high‑resolution waveforms, multi‑axis measurements, AI‑powered PeakVue™ Plus insights, and secure WirelessHART connectivity trusted by leading manufacturers worldwide. As competitors generate noise, Emerson delivers proven, scalable reliability technology backed by global reach, industry expertise, and a mature software ecosystem. The AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor provides the depth of analysis needed to detect issues earlier, reduce manual checks, and strengthen asset reliability across the plant.
White Paper: Making the Right Choice in a Crowded Playing Field
Learn how to cut through market noise and select a wireless vibration solution built for long‑term performance.
Asset Management with an Intuitive Approach to Drive Reliability
Emerson’s AMS portfolio enables the Emerson vision for Boundless Automation by unifying data, systems, and people across the enterprise to achieve improvements in safety, production, reliability, sustainability and workforce empowerment.
Brochure: Asset Management with an Intuitive Approach to Drive Reliability
The AMS Reliability portfolio helps Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Technicians, Operations Managers, Automation Engineers, Instrumentation Specialists, Process Engineers, Control Valve Specialists, Vibration Analysts, and many others do their jobs more efficiently—from field, to workshop, to boardroom, and beyond.
Learn more by exploring the AMS brand webpage.
The Evolution of Industrial AI for Reliability
Artificial Intelligence has quietly transformed condition monitoring long before it became a cultural phenomenon. Emerson’s AMS technologies have embedded AI-driven insights for decades—helping users detect anomalies, optimize maintenance, and enhance asset health. Today, with advances in IIoT sensing, machine learning, and generative AI, reliability teams can scale condition monitoring like never before.
White Paper: The Evolution of Industrial AI for Reliability
Discover how Emerson is redefining reliability by combining embedded edge analytics, wireless vibration monitoring, and scalable AI architectures. Learn how these technologies work together to deliver actionable insights, greater efficiency, and measurable business value across your entire asset lifecycle.
Applications and Industries
Condition Monitoring for Power Industry
Condition Monitoring for Mining, Minerals and Metals
Integrated Condition Monitoring for Power and Water Applications
Condition Monitoring for Food & Beverage
Condition Monitoring for Refining
Condition Monitoring for Life Sciences
Condition Monitoring as-a-Service
AI-Powered, Expert-Led, and Built to Scale—Cloud-Based Asset Monitoring
AMS Machine Works Connect is Emerson’s cost-conscious condition monitoring bundle combining industry-leading vibration sensors, edge analytics, machinery health software, and global deployment services. AMS Machine Works Connect offers users the same powerful machine health analysis software in the cloud with minimal investment in costly and burdensome infrastructure procurement, maintenance, and cybersecurity.
This Emerson-hosted asset management solution for monitoring industrial rotating machinery offers hardware (sensor, gateway, router, SIM card, enclosure) software, cloud services, installation, and configuration services.
Shift Asset Monitoring Budget from CapEx to OpEx
Shift from capital-intensive asset monitoring to a flexible OpEx model. With cloud-ready, AI-powered wireless and edge technology, organizations can deploy incrementally, scale as needed, and pay only for insights consumed—turning CapEx into manageable OpEx. This proven approach accelerates adoption, lowers entry barriers, and optimizes long-term asset performance with minimal upfront cost.
On-Demand Category IV Certified Vibration Analyst
We deliver 24/7 monitoring through cloud dashboards, providing real-time insights without delays or monthly reports. A Category IV Certified Analyst ensures accurate setup with thresholds and baselines. Support includes weekly alarm reviews, rapid tuning, and diagnostic reports within 24–72 hours. Annual reviews provide ROI metrics, system insights, and recommendations to keep operations reliable.
Unmatched Global Expertise and Local Execution
No provider matches Emerson’s scale, skill, and staying power. Our global network of Category IV–certified analysts and engineers brings decades of experience diagnosing machinery faults across industries. We don’t just install and leave—we partner long-term, fine-tuning thresholds, validating alarms, and delivering clear diagnostics that keep your operations reliable and running at peak performance.
Real-Time Machinery Insights, Zero IT Burden
Eliminate hidden costs, unburden IT, and scale effortlessly while unlocking enterprise-wide asset health data. With Emerson hosting the software and infrastructure, your team stays focused on production—not patching or server upkeep. Encrypted data streams to the cloud, where AI analytics detect faults and send actionable alerts in minutes—keeping teams informed anytime, anywhere.
Customer Webinar Presentations
No Wires Attached—Shell’s Reliability Journey
Watch this on-demand webinar to hear directly from the Shell Scotford refinery as they share how wireless vibration monitoring improved visibility into developing asset faults—providing earlier warning and more time to respond before issues impacted operations or production uptime.
In this session, you’ll learn:
- The scale of Shell Scotford’s wireless vibration sensor deployment
- Which asset types and applications were monitored
- Unique findings uncovered through automated condition monitoring
- Real-world case histories and success stories from the program
How HF Sinclair Improved Reliability with Wireless Vibration Monitoring and Condition Monitoring Software
Hear from a distinguished Corporate Rotating Equipment Expert on how his North American team scaled predictive maintenance using AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor, AMS Machine Works, and AMS Optics—preventing failures, improving uptime, and establishing a continent‑wide PdM standard.
You’ll explore:
- Building a compelling business case and securing leadership buy‑in
- A wireless deployment roadmap across diverse rotating assets
- Monitoring 350+ critical assets with advanced diagnostics
- Quick wins achieved within the first six months
- Preventing 19 failure events and boosting uptime
- Plans to expand the wireless network to more than 5,600 sensors
Always On, Always Learning—Lessons from Evergy's Wireless Sensor Program
Join Emerson and Evergy for an exclusive showcase on how of one of the nation’s leading utilities transformed reliability by evolving from manual, portable vibration routes to an award winning automated monitoring program with more than 5,300 wireless vibration sensors deployed.
You'll explore:
- How the program was built from the ground up
- The architecture behind their wireless vibration strategy
- Lessons learned and challenges encountered
- Use cases and successful failure predictions
- KPI metrics and demonstrated ROI
Frequently Asked Questions
Machinery health management is the process of monitoring equipment condition to identify developing issues before they lead to failures. It combines patented technologies, vibration analysis, condition monitoring, protection systems, AI, and analytics to improve reliability or rotating equipment and production assets or systems.
PeakVue technology is Emerson's patented vibration analysis technology designed to detect early-stage bearing and mechanical faults that may not be visible through conventional vibration methods.
Vibration analysis evaluates machine vibration patterns to identify potential issues such as bearing damage, imbalance, misalignment, looseness, gear defects, and cavitation.
Machinery health management is commonly applied to pumps, compressors, motors, turbines, fans, blowers, and gearboxes that are critical to operational performance.
Machinery protection systems help prevent catastrophic failures through real-time protective actions, while machinery monitoring systems provide asset health information for maintenance and reliability decision-making.
Yes. Machinery health management provides the condition and diagnostic information that serves as a foundation for predictive maintenance strategies.
The right AMS monitoring solution depends on the criticality of the asset, the type of data needed, and the maintenance strategy being used. Some assets require monitoring with condition data collected on a scheduled basis, making solutions like AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor an effective choice for expanding coverage across a large asset population. Other assets justify continuous monitoring with advanced diagnostics and embedded analytics, where AMS Asset Monitor can apply predictive models and asset-specific analytics to identify developing machinery and process issues before they affect production. Selecting the appropriate solution helps ensure monitoring resources align with asset criticality, maintenance objectives, and business risk.
Yes. Many organizations use all three solutions as part of a comprehensive reliability strategy. AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor provides broad condition monitoring coverage across many assets, AMS Asset Monitor delivers advanced diagnostics and analytics on critical equipment, and AMS 2140 supports route-based inspections, troubleshooting, and in-depth machinery analysis when additional investigation is needed.
Customer Success Stories
