Machine-health monitoring · New Jersey & Eastern PA

Machines change before they fail.

McCartney Diagnostics monitors the sound and vibration signatures of your pumps, compressors, motors, and fans, and flags the drift that comes before a breakdown. You fix it on your schedule instead of during a line-down emergency.

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How it works

The same way your most experienced operator knows a machine is "running rough", except measured, around the clock, and never on vacation.

STEP 1 / BASELINE

Start with the data you have

Sound, vibration, or existing sensor logs from machines running normally. If you have records of past failures, those are used too. Collection fits around your operation: no controls touched, no downtime.

STEP 2 / LEARN

The model learns your machine

Every machine has its own signature, and the model learns yours rather than a generic factory average. Labeled failure history sharpens it, but it does not require any: it can learn from healthy operation alone.

STEP 3 / MONITOR

Drift becomes an early warning

New readings are scored against that baseline. When the signature starts to drift from bearing wear, cavitation, or imbalance, the score rises long before the failure does.

Tested before it's sold

Validated on the MIMII industrial-sound benchmark: real factory pump recordings with confirmed faults, scored blind on machines the model never heard during training.

McCartney Diagnostics monitoring dashboard ranking 303 pump recordings by anomaly score, with faulty clips flagged at the top

FIG. 1 / MONITORING CONSOLE · 303 HELD-OUT RECORDINGS RANKED BY DEVIATION FROM HEALTHY BASELINE

0.800

ROC-AUC on held-out test recordings: blind separation of healthy from faulty machines

1,149

factory recordings processed in benchmark validation, healthy and faulty

failure examples required: the benchmark model learned from healthy operation alone

Side-by-side comparison: a healthy pump recording scoring 0.00371 below threshold next to a faulty pump scoring 0.00773 above threshold, with audio players and mel spectrograms showing the visible difference in acoustic signature

FIG. 2 / SIDE-BY-SIDE: A HEALTHY PUMP AND A FAULTY ONE. THE FAULT IS VISIBLE IN THE SPECTROGRAM, AUDIBLE IN THE RECORDING, AND SCORED 2× HIGHER BY THE MODEL.

Free site visit · New Jersey & Eastern PA

Tell me about the machine you trust least.

I'll come out, walk the floor with you, and learn how your equipment fails: which machines cause the headaches, how your operators catch problems today, and what kind of early warning would actually be useful to your team. You'll get straight recommendations on sound and vibration monitoring, what to measure, and where it makes sense, whether or not you ever work with me. Half an hour, no slides.

No contract · no obligation · just a conversation about your equipment

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