Use Case · APM & Predictive Maintenance

Ship a predictive maintenance pipeline — end to end.

PdM needs ingest, contextualization, time-series storage, model training on failure data, real-time scoring, and operator workflows. Most teams ship the model but never the pipeline. Flex83 ships every layer — from sensor to work order — on one platform.

Predictive maintenance pipeline showing pump telemetry, risk model, FLEX83 stack, and auto-created work order.
The Problem

The PdM demo is one model. The PdM product is six systems.

A working anomaly model is the easy part. The product is the ingest pipeline, the asset model, the real-time scorer, the alarm router, the operator workflow, and the work-order integration — all wired together and operated 24/7.

$260K

Avg. cost of one downtime hour

Discrete manufacturers lose $260K an hour to unplanned downtime. PdM only pays back if the pipeline actually triggers work before the failure.

Aberdeen Strategy & Research

70%

Of pilots never reach scale

McKinsey’s Industry 4.0 survey reports 70% of pilots fail to scale. Most stall at the integration layer between the model and the operator workflow.

McKinsey, Industry 4.0 Survey

6 systems

To stitch for a real PdM product

Ingest + asset model + storage + ML + alarms + operator workflow — each from a different vendor or repo. Operating six systems together is what kills the project.

Flex83 platform assessment
The Platform Solution

The full PdM stack — from sensor to work order — on one platform.

Flex83 ships every capability a production PdM pipeline needs. Stream and batch ingestion feed the asset model. ML Studios trains failure-prediction models on historical telemetry. Model Registry promotes them into production scoring. Alarms route triggers into your operator and CMMS workflows.

Your team owns the model and the workflow. Flex83 owns the pipeline that connects them.

Stream Processing

Real-time scoring against the model on every sensor reading.

Batch & Spark

Train on years of historical telemetry and failure history.

ML Studios

Train, validate, and tune PdM models on Flex83-managed clusters.

Model Registry

Promote, A/B, and roll back PdM models in production safely.

FlexIoT Hub

Asset hierarchies, twins, and identity for every piece of equipment.

Alarms & Workflows

Trigger work orders, dispatch, and notifications into your CMMS.

How It Works

From vibration spike to work order — in one pipeline.

A reference architecture for shipping production-grade predictive maintenance on Flex83.

1
Ingest

Stream sensor telemetry from PLCs, gateways, and historians.

2
Contextualize

Map raw readings to assets, sites, and process hierarchies.

3
Train

ML Studios trains failure-prediction models on labeled history.

4
Score

Real-time scoring of every reading against the registered model.

5
Trigger

Alarms create work orders and notify operators in their CMMS.

What You Can Ship

PdM stops being a pilot and becomes a product.

Three things that change when the full pipeline ships as one platform.

Catch failures days before they happen

Real-time scoring against years of failure history means PdM triggers work orders before vibration, temperature, or flow drift becomes a breakdown.

Close the loop with operators

Models that don’t trigger workflows are wallpaper. Flex83 sends triggers directly into your CMMS, your dispatch tool, or your operator dashboard.

One pipeline, every asset class

Pumps, compressors, motors, conveyors — same pipeline, different asset type. Define the asset once; the rest is configuration, not code.

Proven At Scale

Branded dashboards at telecom scale.

1.5M+

Devices on PdM pipelines in production today

<100ms

Edge inference for assets requiring local scoring

APM

Headline outcome powered end-to-end on Flex83

1 platform

Ingest, contextualize, train, score, and trigger — no integrations

Stop demoing models. Start shipping PdM products.

Talk to a Flex83 platform expert about your PdM roadmap. We’ll map your asset hierarchy, walk you through the reference pipeline, and show what a production-ready PdM product looks like in 8–12 weeks.