MOVUS

MOVUS is an industrial condition-monitoring company founded in 2015 in Brisbane, Australia, by Brad Parsons and Michel Lamarre. It was created to give manufacturers, miners and utilities an affordable way to track the health of rotating machines that previously went unmonitored, aiming to cut unplanned downtime and extend equipment life.

Its FitMachine product pairs a wireless vibration and temperature sensor with a cloud platform that uses machine learning to flag early signs of failure and rank maintenance priorities, rather than only reporting raw readings. Manufacturers, food processors and mining operators such as BlueScope, Bosch and Nutrien use the system for remote diagnostics across thousands of monitored assets.

1. Wireless sensing: Clips a battery-powered vibration and temperature sensor onto rotating assets.

2. Early fault detection: Flags abnormal machine behaviour weeks before failure.

3. Prioritized recommendations: Ranks maintenance actions by urgency instead of raw alerts.

4. Remote diagnostics: Lets reliability teams monitor distributed plants from one dashboard.

5. Closed-loop learning: Improves detection accuracy using validated technician feedback.

6. Broad deployment: Covers manufacturing, mining, food and beverage, and utility assets.