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The Problem

Most plants already have visibility into equipment health.
  • Machine Works monitors rotating equipment
  • AMS Device Manager monitors instrumentation
Teams are left to:
  • Interpret data across platforms
  • Prioritize competing signals
  • Decide what matters most
  • Determine who needs to respond
The result is slower response and increased risk.

Why It Matters

When equipment and instrumentation data are disconnected:
  • Root causes take longer to identify
  • Critical issues get missed or delayed
  • Teams react instead of plan
The risk is not lack of data. It is lack of coordinated action.

Watcher™ Offers a Better Way

Turn Data Into Action
  • Synthesizes vibration events with full context
  • Builds trend views and severity automatically
Deliver Clear Diagnostics
  • Generates structured outputs with fault modes and recommendations
  • Supports multi-model analysis for confidence
Notify the Right People
  • Real-time alerts sent to the right users
  • Configurable by site and severity
Deploy Fast
  • Single executable
  • No runtime dependencies
  • Runs as a Windows service

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How It Works

How It Works

  1. Detect: Watcher Vibration™ and Watcher Instruments™ monitors Machine Works and Device Manager measurements and identifies threshold driven events.
  2. Analyze: For warning and danger, Watcher can compile evidence and run AI analysis to identify fault modes and recommend actions.
  3. Act: Watcher delivers notifications and provides interface views that help teams prioritize and respond.

Watcher™ Delivers

Watcher closes the gap between detection and action.

For Reliability Engineers

Gets evidence and clear fault insights, not just alerts.

For Maintenance Teams

Prioritize what needs action now versus later.

For Plant Leadership

See a unified view of critical asset health across multiple Machine Works or Device Manager system sites.

Stop relying on alerts to drive decisions. Deploy Watcher™ to translate every vibration event into clear, prioritized action.

Frequently Asked Questions

Watcher Vibration™ is designed to monitor equipment health data from AMS Machine Works and synthesize events, trends, notifications, and diagnostics from that data.
Watcher Instruments™ is designed to monitor equipment health data from AMS Device Manager and synthesize events, trends, notifications, and diagnostics from that data.
Watcher AI builds an evidence package and produces a structured diagnostic report with a severity verdict, likely fault modes with confidence, and recommended actions.
Watcher runs on-premises alongside AMS Machine Works and Device Manager. AI analysis requires outbound HTTPS access to cloud model providers. Several proven connectivity options are available to suit different network policies.

Cloudflare Tunnel
Zero-trust outbound tunnel — no inbound firewall rules needed. Watcher manages the tunnel as a subprocess. Encrypted end-to-end.
Cellular / Dedicated Link
A dedicated cellular router or secondary WAN provides isolated outbound connectivity for AI API calls, completely separate from the plant OT network.
Data Obfuscation
Plant and asset names can be obfuscated before leaving the network and de-obfuscated on return, ensuring no identifiable site data reaches cloud providers.

Maximo Integration: AI verdicts (ACT, PLAN) can automatically generate work orders in Maximo or other CMMS platforms via API, closing the loop from detection to maintenance action without manual re-entry.
Watcher™ is a single Go executable with three embedded React applications. No installers, no runtimes, no external databases for Watcher™ itself. Copy the file, configure the AMS Machine Work or Device Manager connection, and it’s operational.

Four Deployment Options
IPC Appliance
Emerson IPC 8010
Pre-configured industrial PC shipped to site. 8GB RAM budget. Runs as a Windows service with auto-start. The turnkey option.
On-Prem Server
Customer VM + Cloudflare Tunnel
Install on an existing server alongside MW. Cloudflare tunnel provides secure remote access without opening firewall ports.
Cloud Hosted
Control Southern Cloud
Direct network access to cloud-hosted MW instances. Managed by Control Southern with full monitoring and updates.
Development
Workstation · GUI Mode
Run on any Windows machine with GUI mode for development, demos, and testing. System tray icon with quick access to all interfaces.