Company Background

Sentelligence is a technology company rooted in the development of on-board, intelligent fluid contaminant and wear diagnostic systems for use in machinery and mobile equipment globally.

Supply chain management and global logistics have put tremendous pressure on manufacturing and transportation equipment to provide higher levels of productivity and reliable performance, as these economic components continue in their seamless systems integration. Equipment down time or service failures have serious negative consequences throughout the customer supply chain and are often treated with zero tolerance.

To this end, “Equipment Centric” maintenance practices -- such as scheduled time, miles, or hours of use, are giving way to “Systems Centric” practices – such as condition based maintenance and ultimately, predictive maintenance. With maintenance practices viewed in this broader context of their impact on supply chain management and logistics operations, quality and timely information regarding equipment health is essential.

The company’s core competencies are in the miniaturization of instrumentation based technologies such as, optical, electrometric, and electromagnetic methods of measurement. Along with its strategic partner’s, Sentelligence seeks to create sensors and systems to optimize machinery and equipment up time and lower the costs of operation through better equipment maintenance practices and energy management.

Emerging Markets

In the engine and power train market, for trucks and other mobile equipment, routine maintenance practices have evolved around oil drain intervals, historically. After all, the engine is typically the most costly and also the most maintenance sensitive component within the power train. If we need to stop the equipment to change the oil, the logic flows that we design all of the other components that require routine maintenance to match the maintenance intervals. This is conventional “Equipment Centric” thinking.

What if we could double the oil drain intervals safely? We could set new standards for other components. Some power train components have already improved to the point where inspections and routine service can be extended. The measures of savings shift from strictly shop labor and material savings to discussions of operational improvements – additional up time, incremental loads and revenue, reduced capital requirements, oil waste disposal, and energy management. This is un-conventional “Systems Centric” thinking. Good information and planning drive benefits deeper into the organization. 

Wireless communications coupled with dispatch based systems in the mid-90’s created technology core for logistics and ultimately supply chain management. On-board diagnostic and prognostic sensing coupled with wireless information systems provides the technology core for emerging condition based and predictive based maintenance.

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Emissions Regulations

Environmental concerns have come to the forefront once more. Global warming and public health continue to be leading issues with potentially serious economic consequences. Significant reductions in NOx and low sulfur fuel are important steps forward. They also have a short term negative impact on new equipment and future maintenance costs. 

As these costs continue to rise, operational and maintenance efficiencies become even more important to help offset the cost impact. Emissions solutions that include selective catalytic reduction (SCR) require the use of a urea mixture for post combustion treatment. Sentelligence technology offers an opportunity to manage the quality of these fluids to assure effective application of SCR technology.

The company is actively working toward a cost effective solution for urea condition monitoring that can be used in conjunction with its other fluid condition technologies to provide a sensor network. This is central to the company’s strategy of expanding the impact of condition based and predictive maintenance systems.

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