About Monitors
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Monitors are available on the Enterprise plan as part of Asset Intelligence. For more information, contact your MaintainX® representative.
A monitor turns live signals from your connected equipment into action. Each monitor watches the assets you choose for a specific kind of problem. When it finds one, it does the work for you: it updates the asset's status, opens a work order, or raises an alert for your team to review. Only anomaly monitors raise alerts.
Instead of building an automation for each rule yourself, you set up a monitor in a short, guided flow. You pick the assets, confirm which tags carry the signals, and decide the result. MaintainX handles the rest.
Types of Monitors​
MaintainX provides the following monitors. Which ones you can use depends on the equipment and data you've connected.
| Monitor | What it does | Result | Learning period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Set asset status from machine signals | Watches a machine signal, such as running or stopped, and maps each value to an asset status. | Updates the asset's status automatically. | No learning period; the monitor acts as soon as it sees a matching signal. |
| Create work orders from fault codes | Watches the fault codes that your equipment reports and acts on the codes you choose. | Opens a work order and assigns it. | No learning period; the monitor acts as soon as it sees a matching signal. |
| Detect anomalies in temperature | Watches temperature readings for unusual patterns. | Raises an alert you can turn into work. | About two weeks of data, counted from when data started flowing into MaintainX, even if that was before you turned on the monitor. |
| Detect anomalies in current | Watches current readings for unusual patterns. | Raises an alert you can turn into work. | About two weeks of data, counted from when data started flowing into MaintainX, even if that was before you turned on the monitor. |
| Detect anomalies in pumps, fans, and compressors (beta) | Watches the signals that are specific to the asset type, starting with signs of efficiency loss, and compares them with what's normal for that type. | Raises an alert you can turn into work. These asset type monitors are in beta. | About two weeks of data, counted from when you turn on the monitor. The data must include at least 17 hours of asset runtime. |
Asset status and fault code monitors don't raise alerts. An asset status monitor updates the asset's status, and a fault code monitor opens a work order, so there's nothing to review first. Anomaly monitors learn what's normal for your assets before they raise alerts, so they don't raise alerts until their learning period ends. For more information, see Anomaly Monitors.
On the Monitors page, you can filter the list by Monitoring, Preventive, and Predictive.
Monitors that detect anomalies in equipment signals are different from AI-powered anomaly detection, which checks the values that people enter in procedure fields and manual meter readings.
How Monitors Work​
Monitors follow the same flow, with one step that depends on the type of monitor:
- Choose what to monitor: Select the assets that the monitor will watch. MaintainX shows which assets have a signal it can match.
- Confirm the signals: MaintainX matches each asset to a tag path from your data source. You confirm that the matches are right. This step uses smart tag mapping.
- Set the result: Asset status and fault code monitors need one more step. For example, you map machine signals to asset statuses, or choose the fault codes and the work order to create. Anomaly monitors skip this step.
- Activate: Review what the monitor turns on, and then enable it.
You set up a monitor from the Monitors page by selecting the monitor you want and working through these steps in order. For more information, see Create a Monitor.
After you activate a monitor, you can add or remove assets, change the tags it reads, and turn it off at any time. For more information, see Manage a Monitor.
Before You Start​
To use a monitor, you need:
- Assets in MaintainX for the equipment you want to watch.
- A connected data source that streams data for those assets, such as an OT data connector or an ERBESSD INSTRUMENTS® integration. A monitor can only watch the signals that are reaching MaintainX. Monitors can't use data that you send through the REST API.
Monitors and Automations​
Monitors don't replace automations. If you need a custom rule, such as sending an email when a temperature crosses a specific threshold, or routing different fault codes to different teams, set it up as an automation. Automations and monitors can run on the same asset without conflict.
If you set up an asset status monitor for an asset that already has an automation that changes its status, MaintainX warns you. Disable the automation, or remove the asset from the monitor, so the two don't set conflicting statuses.
For more information, see About Automations.