Industry applications
The machine doesn't matter.
We monitor them all.
Find your machine type below. See exactly how VibraFabrics detects faults earlier, reacts faster at the edge, and keeps your data under your control.
Rotating Machinery
Electric motors · Centrifugal pumps · Fans · Blowers · Compressors
Stop replacing bearings on a schedule. Replace them when they actually need it.
Most plants replace bearings every 6 months — whether they need it or not. That wastes money and creates unnecessary downtime. When a bearing does fail unexpectedly, it can damage the shaft, housing, and impeller in a chain reaction that costs 10× more than the bearing itself.
Continuous vibration monitoring with IEPE sensors detects early bearing wear, imbalance, and misalignment weeks before failure. The server's anomaly detector spots changes in vibration patterns and raises an early warning — giving your team time to plan, not react.
"VibraFabrics industrial monitoring dashboard screenshot showing a 30-day vibration trend chart for a centrifugal pump bearing. The trend line gradually rises over the last 10 days and an amber "Early warning" anomaly flag is visible at day 22, well before the red alarm threshold. Clean dark SaaS UI, blue accent colors, professional data visualization."
usecase-rotating-dashboard.png- ✓Detect bearing degradation weeks before failure
- ✓Eliminate unnecessary scheduled replacements
- ✓Avoid collateral damage by acting before the fault propagates
- ✓Works on motors from small single-phase to large multi-megawatt
- ✓Add temperature and process sensors alongside vibration
High-Speed Turbines & Spindles
Steam turbines · Gas turbines · CNC spindles · Centrifuges · Turbo-compressors
At 50,000 RPM, cloud monitoring reacts too late. The edge doesn't wait.
High-speed rotating equipment fails catastrophically. A turbine imbalance that starts as a hairline crack can lead to full destruction in seconds. Cloud-based monitoring systems can't react fast enough — by the time data travels to a server and back, the machine is gone.
VibraFabrics processes alarm logic on the edge device itself and triggers 24 VDC digital outputs directly — fully independent of any server or network. Meanwhile, high-density signal captures are forwarded to the server for AI trend analysis and early warning.
"Technical illustration on dark background showing two parallel protection paths for a high-speed turbine: left path labelled "Edge alarm — milliseconds" with a Beckhoff PLC triggering a 24V relay directly; right path labelled "AI early warning — days" with data flowing to a cloud server showing a trend chart. Clean vector diagram, white and blue labels, orange/red accent for the alarm path, purple for the AI path."
usecase-turbine-dual-path.png- ✓Edge digital outputs react to threshold crossings independently of the cloud
- ✓High-frequency signal capture for deep spectral analysis
- ✓AI early warning detects trends days before threshold-level events
- ✓Hardware scalable to the number of channels required
- ✓ATEX-compatible hardware options for hazardous installation environments
Very Low-Speed Machines
Agitators · Mixers · Rotary kilns · Paper rolls · Conveyor drums
Most systems give up below 100 RPM. Ours works down to 12.
A paper mill agitator spinning at 20 RPM has a vibration cycle lasting 3 full seconds. Most vibration tools — and nearly all wireless sensors — are calibrated for faster machines and simply miss fault frequencies at low speed. Damage accumulates invisibly until it's catastrophic.
VibraFabrics applies extended acquisition windows and signal processing tuned for slow-speed equipment. The system captures enough vibration cycles to resolve bearing and gear mesh defect frequencies even at 12 RPM — something most competitor platforms cannot do.
"Side-by-side FFT frequency spectrum comparison on dark background. Left panel labelled "Standard tool — 15 RPM" shows a flat noisy spectrum with no visible fault frequency peaks. Right panel labelled "VibraFabrics — 15 RPM" shows a clear spectrum with a distinct bearing defect frequency peak highlighted in orange at the correct harmonic. Dark professional data visualization, orange and blue accent colors."
usecase-lowspeed-fft.png- ✓Works reliably down to 12 RPM
- ✓Extended acquisition windows capture sufficient cycles for analysis
- ✓Detects bearing wear, looseness, and lubrication problems
- ✓Combine with process sensors (temperature, torque) for full machine health
- ✓No manual inspection rounds needed
Remote & Distributed Assets
Pumping stations · Water treatment · Wind turbines · Agricultural equipment · Pipeline valves
Your most expensive assets are the hardest to reach. Not anymore.
Running IEPE cables to a pump station kilometres from your plant costs more than the pump itself. So most remote machines go unmonitored — and when they fail, you find out when production stops.
LoRaWAN wireless sensors run on batteries for over a year and transmit data kilometres with no cabling and no Wi-Fi. One gateway covers a large area. All data flows to the same dashboard as your wired sensors.
"Aerial-style site map illustration of a water treatment facility on dark background. Several pump station buildings scattered around the site. Each pump station has a small wireless sensor icon with LoRa signal waves. A central gateway building shows a coverage radius circle encompassing all sensors. Green dots = sensors OK, one amber dot = early warning. Clean technical map illustration, teal and green color scheme."
usecase-remote-map.png- ✓Battery life: 1+ year on 2 AA cells
- ✓Wireless range: kilometres in open terrain
- ✓One gateway covers many sensors
- ✓No cables, no Wi-Fi, no IT project
- ✓Same dashboard view as wired assets
ATEX / Hazardous Environments
Chemical reactors · Oil & gas equipment · Mining crushers · Solvent handling
Explosive atmospheres need certified hardware — not workarounds.
In Zone 1 and Zone 2 ATEX areas, uncertified electronics can ignite a gas or dust atmosphere. So most chemical and oil & gas plants run rotating equipment unmonitored — or rely on periodic manual rounds that miss developing faults.
VibraFabrics supports ATEX-compatible sensor options feeding data to a safely-located Beckhoff edge device outside the hazardous zone. Edge alarm outputs enable real-time response without requiring personnel to enter the hazardous area.
"Technical plant layout diagram on dark background showing ATEX zone architecture. Left side: "ATEX Zone 2" boundary drawn with dashed orange line containing reactor and pump icons with ATEX sensor symbols. Right side: "Safe area" containing a Beckhoff PLC box. A cable runs across the zone boundary through a barrier symbol. A 24V alarm relay output connects to a control room icon. Orange and amber color scheme for hazardous zone, blue for safe area, clean technical illustration."
usecase-atex-layout.png- ✓ATEX-compatible sensor options for Zone 1 and Zone 2
- ✓Processing hardware located safely outside the hazardous zone
- ✓Edge digital alarm outputs trigger safety responses without cloud dependency
- ✓Reduce personnel exposure to hazardous environments
- ✓Monitor continuously — not just during planned inspection rounds
Complex Drivetrains & Gearboxes
Gearboxes · Speed multipliers · Planetary drives · Multi-stage transmissions
Gearbox faults hide in overlapping frequencies. We separate them.
A gearbox with multiple gear pairs and bearings generates dozens of overlapping vibration frequencies. Standard threshold alarms trigger on the wrong signal. Generic AI models produce false alarms or miss real defects because they don't understand the mechanical relationships between components.
VibraFabrics captures high-resolution vibration data across all monitored gearbox points. Spectral analysis tools (FFT, envelope spectrum) allow your team or our AI to identify which component frequency is anomalous — gear pair defect, bearing inner race, or resonance — before failure.
"Split technical visualization on dark background. Left: FFT frequency spectrum of a multi-stage gearbox showing several harmonic peaks. One peak at a gear mesh frequency is highlighted in amber with a label "Gear pair 2 — early fault detected". Right: a simplified mechanical schematic cross-section of a two-stage gearbox with the faulty gear pair highlighted. Cyan and teal accent colors, professional industrial data visualization style."
usecase-gearbox-fft.png- ✓High-resolution IEPE acquisition captures gearbox frequency detail
- ✓Envelope spectrum and FFT tools for gear and bearing fault identification
- ✓AI anomaly detector learns the normal signature per machine
- ✓Early warning when individual component signatures start to drift
- ✓Raw signal archive means any historical capture can be re-analysed
Don't see your machine type?
VibraFabrics is configurable for virtually any rotating or reciprocating machine. Talk to us — we'll tell you exactly what hardware and configuration you need.