Augury

Augury has moved past being a vibration-analysis product. The current platform is organized around three role-based agents — Operational Intelligence, Predictive Maintenance, and Autonomous Action — layered on continuous sensor monitoring of rotating equipment. What that means in practice: you get ranked alerts instead of a flood, each carrying root cause analysis, urgency, and a recommended corrective action, and the Autonomous Action agent can run multi-step work across connected systems so work orders and follow-ups don't stop at the alert. The data story is the strongest part of the case. Augury cites 1.1B+ hours of monitored machine readings and says its intelligence is validated across thousands of machines rather than one customer's site. That's the kind of corpus that's hard to replicate and is the reason alerts arrive pre-ranked with a diagnosis attached rather than as an anomaly score. Coverage is broad across rotating assets — pumps, motors, compressors, bearings, fans and blowers, gearboxes, chillers, conveyors, extruders, mills, mixers, seamers — with specific solution lines for critical equipment, hazardous and ultra-low RPM machines, and supporting equipment. Process Health, formerly Seebo, extends the same prescriptive approach to production efficiency, yield, and sustainability, which matters if your goal is throughput rather than just avoiding breakdowns. Support is a real differentiator at this end of the market. Augury pairs customers with CAT II/III vibration analysts, reliability success managers, and client partners, and offers installation from self-serve through white-glove plus 150+ Knowledge Center articles and 20+ hours of technical training. That's the service layer that gets an industrial AI program past the pilot. Where it doesn't fit: sites with few machines and no reliability function will find both the scope and the deployment overhead disproportionate. Pricing is quoted rather than published, so budget planning requires a conversation with Augury — the company positions it as a partnership program built around your operations. Sensor installation is a prerequisite for machine health data, so there's physical work before the AI delivers anything, and the value of the diagnostics depends on establishing a baseline for each asset. Customers whose value showed up is documented: DuPont cited a 7x ROI on proof-of-concept sites under a year old, and Nefco Biosolids describes Augury as a culture change rather than a program. Bottom line: for a plant running dozens to thousands of rotating assets, Augury competes seriously with IBM Maximo and Fluke Reliability, and the role-based agent layer plus Process Health is what separates it from single-purpose vibration monitoring.