Unscheduled stops cost the most
Every minute the line is down is direct revenue lost — and the downstream knock-on (rushed re-start, quality issues, OEE hit) costs again.
Sectors Serviced · Industrial
Catch line failures before they stop production.
Novek gives plant managers, operations leads, and maintenance teams earlier visibility into the rotating equipment, motors, and process-support assets that, when they fail, stop the line — so issues are caught as drift, not as unscheduled downtime.
Independent of the maintenance vendorNo BMS or DCS integrationAED-priced exposure per asset
The problem
On a production line, every minute of unscheduled stop is revenue lost.
Industrial sites carry the highest cost-per-minute of any commercial environment we serve. The hardest part isn't fixing the failure — it's seeing it coming far enough ahead to schedule a stop instead of suffering one.
01 02 Spare-parts lead time is the biggest hidden risk
When a bearing, motor, or coupling has a 4-8 week lead time, an early signal is the difference between scheduled maintenance and a multi-week halt.
03 You can't manually watch every asset
Fifty or more critical motors, conveyors, gearboxes, and compressors across a plant. Manual rounds miss drift between inspections. Reactive maintenance becomes the default.
04 Emergency repairs cascade
Rushed procurement, overtime callouts, downstream line disruption, quality issues from rushed re-starts, and the conversation with management about why it wasn't caught earlier.
Equipment we monitor
Rotating machinery, motors, and process-support assets.
Coverage starts with the assets whose failure stops the line. Common starting points include:
- Conveyor motors
- Gearboxes & drives
- Compressors
- Process pumps
- Fans & blowers
- Cooling towers
- Dust extraction
- MV / LV panels
Built for production lines
Sensors on the rotating equipment that, when it fails, stops the line.
Wireless industrial sensors deployed on motors, conveyors, gearboxes, and compressors. Continuous analytics behind the scenes. Plain operational language at the front — no consultant required between the data and the decision.
Real scenarios
What four weeks of early warning actually looks like.
Without Novek
- Bearing seizes at 2 AM on Saturday
- No spare on the shelf
- Five days lost air-freighting parts from Europe
- Monday's incident report to the CFO
With Novek
- ISO 10816 threshold crossed four weeks earlier
- Bearing pre-ordered the next morning
- Replacement during the planned changeover
- The 2 AM call never happens
5 days of production preserved · No air-freight · No CFO report
Start where downtime hurts most
One production line. One asset group. One measurable risk.
Novek can begin with a focused Failure Visibility Assessment on a single production line or asset group — proving value on the assets where unscheduled downtime hurts most before wider rollout.
Scope
One line or asset group
Mode
Independent overlay
Output
Findings + clear asset history
Decision
Expand by line or by asset class