Condition Monitoring is More Than Just Data Collection
Across all industries there is one simple thought that drives business – produce high quality product that meets the market need and you’ll enjoy greater success. But with fewer resources and a mounting loss of experienced personnel, many facilities are struggling to maintain the reliability and availability of their machinery to meet that market need. As a result, condition monitoring plays an increasingly pivotal role in ensuring the success of your operation.
As an industry leader, Emerson understands not all plants are starting from the same size or experience level. We appreciate that no two starting points are exactly alike, therefore any solution must be flexible to meet your unique needs. We’re specifically positioned to help you meet these challenges, offering a comprehensive strategy for condition monitoring across the plant – a digital eco-system for integrating portable, wireless, and online monitoring into a single software platform with common interfaces and tools.
Condition Monitoring Service & Expertise
Our method for identifying the most crucial aspects needed to successfully implement a condition monitoring program includes a holistic approach that incorporates employee training and services. While some vendors offer a single solution applied across all applications, Emerson’s approach to condition monitoring considers various measurement acquisition types and delivers the diagnostic details necessary to avoid false alerts that waste time and misdiagnosed issues that lead to machine failure. With our AMS Condition Monitoring Service, supplement an existing program with on-demand analysis, or the team of Emerson experts can completely manage it for organizations who feel there are gaps.
Condition Monitoring Using AMS Machine Works
When it comes to condition monitoring most organizations are dealing with the typical conundrum of too much data and not enough time or staff to process and analyze it all. They need one easy-to-use tool that can remove the complexity of condition monitoring and focus squarely on the problems that need to be addressed.
AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor
The health and performance of assets within a plant is a vital component of your organization's ability to produce quality products. Yet for too many plants, the ability to institute condition monitoring on a broad scale has been difficult to implement due expense and resource constraints. What if there was a cost-effective solution that could enable monitoring of nearly all of the assets within your plant?
AMS 6500 ATG
Along with maintaining productivity and product quality, safety ranks amongst the top goals for most plants. An essential tool in achieving those goals is the protection system used on your most critical production assets, and its ability to accurately detect risk. When predetermined parameters are exceeded, these systems play the pivotal role of shutting down production assets to avoid damaging machines as well as the far more important function of potentially saving lives. Emerson’s AMS 6500 ATG, in conjunction with AMS Machine Works software, addresses these critical issues by combining a dependable protection system with modern prediction capabilities, to provide a full condition monitoring solution.
AMS 2140 Machinery Health Analyzer
The AMS 2140 Machinery Health Analyzer takes vibration data and analysis measurements to the next level. It features simultaneous four-channel plus phase data collection and unique peak detection capabilities for the earliest indication of bearing and gearbox degradation. In addition to delivering faster data collection for less time in the field or more machines monitored, the AMS 2140 is ergonomically designed for comfortable, single hand operation all day long.
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
Customer Stories
Learn why Emerson’s AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor is the foremost vibration sensor across process and manufacturing industries worldwide.
Frequently Asked Questions
Condition monitoring is the process of measuring and analyzing equipment condition using technologies such as vibration monitoring, temperature monitoring, oil analysis, and diagnostics to identify developing issues before failures occur.
Condition monitoring helps organizations improve reliability by detecting equipment problems early, reducing unplanned downtime, lowering maintenance costs, and supporting predictive maintenance programs.
Common monitored assets include pumps, motors, turbines, compressors, gearboxes, fans, blowers, conveyors, and other rotating or production equipment.
Common technologies include vibration analysis, wireless vibration monitoring, infrared thermography, oil analysis, ultrasound testing, and motor current analysis.
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.
Online condition monitoring continuously collects asset health data while equipment remains in operation, providing real-time visibility into equipment condition.
Condition monitoring provides the asset health data needed to identify developing faults and predict when maintenance is required, enabling more proactive maintenance planning.
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.
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.
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.
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