Solutions by User: Unlocking Value Across All Roles

From operations leaders and maintenance engineers to data scientists and sustainability managers, every role in an organization has unique challenges when it comes to oil condition monitoring and lubrication optimization. Whether the goal is to reduce downtime, lower operational costs, enhance product reliability, or drive sustainability, the Smart Bubble System (SBS) provides precise, real-time insights that empower data-driven decision-making.

By eliminating guesswork and costly fluid-related testing errors, SBS helps cut development costs and accelerate time-to-market, ensuring optimized lubrication strategies, increased equipment efficiency, and reduced maintenance efforts. The result is higher reliability, reduced resource consumption, and long-term cost savings—tailored to the specific needs of various corporate functions.

Service Life & Reliability

Service Life & Reliability

In wind turbines, mining vehicles, and industrial hydraulic systems, premature component wear due to aeration, cavitation, and oxidation results in higher failure rates and costly downtime. 

The SBS provides continuous condition monitoring, enabling operators to predict wear patterns, extend oil change intervals, and optimize lubrication before failures occur.

Lower Maintenance Costs & Avoid Premature Wear

Lower Maintenance Costs & Avoid Premature Wear

In cost-sensitive industries like off-highway machinery, and industrial production plants, unnecessary servicing and fixed oil change intervals result in over-maintenance or, worse, critical failures due to delayed intervention.

SBS provides real-time lubrication insights, allowing companies to move from interval-based maintenance to predictive maintenance strategies

Development Costs & Time-to-Market

Development Costs & Time-to-Market

In product development, inaccurate fluid measurements lead to costly design iterations, prolonged testing cycles, and inefficient use of development budgets.

The SBS delivers precise oil condition data, allowing engineers to reduce loops, avoid rework, and optimize lubrication strategies.

Operations Leadership: Maximizing System Reliability & Efficiency

Operations Leadership: Maximizing System Reliability & Efficiency

For operations leaders, unplanned downtime and inefficient maintenance strategies are major cost drivers. The SBS enables real-time condition-based oil monitoring, reducing reactive interventions and extending service intervals.

  • Continuous performance tracking: Gain insights into lubrication efficiency and system wear trends.
  • Minimized downtime: Prevent failures before they occur with root-cause analysis, and preventive maintenance.
  • Increased asset lifespan: Optimize lubrication strategies to reduce wear and tear.

Solutions by User

Process & Fluid Engineers: Deep-Dive into Oil Condition Insights

For process and fluid engineers, understanding oil performance under real-world conditions is essential to optimizing system efficiency. The SBS provides detailed fluid behavior analysis, helping engineers refine lubrication formulations and prevent air-related failures.

  • High-resolution fluid analysis: Understand air bubble morphology, size, and distribution.
  • Improve additive performance: Optimize anti-foam additives and dispersants.
  • Enhance oil formulation strategies: Develop next-generation lubrication solutions.
Process & Fluid Engineers: Deep-Dive into Oil Condition Insights
Test & Application Engineers: Enhancing Product Design & Performance

Solution by User

Test & Application Engineers: Enhancing Product Design & Performance

Test and application engineers play a key role in ensuring that components and systems operate efficiently under real-world conditions. The SBS provides quantifiable insights into lubrication performance, enabling engineers to optimize product designs, reduce development times, and cut costs.

  • Precise fluid behavior analysis: Understand how air entrainment impacts hydraulic systems, gearboxes, and bearings.
  • Shorter testing cycles: Replace traditional, time-consuming oil analysis methods with real-time validation.
  • Reduce development costs: Avoid expensive rework by identifying lubrication issues early in R&D.

Maintenance Technicians: Easy-to-Use, Plug-and-Play In-Line Measurement

The Smart Bubble System was designed for fast, effortless use in the field—no lab tests, no complex setups, and no calibration delays. Maintenance technicians can quickly install and start measuring without disrupting operations.

  • Simple system integration: Plug directly into hydraulic circuits for instant measurement.
  • Continuous monitoring: Avoid time-consuming manual sampling and lab tests.
  • Faster troubleshooting: Locate air entrainment issues at their source.
Maintenance Technicians: Easy-to-Use, Plug-and-Play In-Line Measurement
Quality Managers: Ensuring Long-Term Lubrication Health & Compliance

Quality Managers: Ensuring Long-Term Lubrication Health & Compliance

Quality managers must ensure oil cleanliness, longevity, and compliance with industry regulations. The SBS provides traceable, standardized measurement results, supporting quality assurance programs.

  • Objective, repeatable oil condition data: Meet your industries lubrication standards.
  • Minimize variability in measurement results: Achieve higher process stability.
  • Improve reporting & documentation: Get audit-ready reports.

IT & Data Analysts: Connecting Oil Insights to Digital Infrastructure

IT teams and data scientists play a crucial role in leveraging machine-generated data for predictive analytics and process optimization. The SBS provides structured, high-resolution oil condition data that integrates with existing monitoring platforms.

  • Machine vision-based data: High-resolution insights into air-in-oil behavior.
  • System integration: Connect SBS data to existing condition monitoring and maintenance systems.
  • AI-driven trend analysis: Support data-driven decision-making.
IT & Data Analysts: Connecting Oil Insights to Digital Infrastructure
Economists & Sustainability Managers: Optimizing Costs & Driving Sustainability

Economists & Sustainability Managers: Optimizing Costs & Driving Sustainability

Economists and sustainability managers must lower operational costs while improving resource efficiency. Unnecessary oil changes, inefficient maintenance, and excessive lubricant consumption increase Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), CO₂ emissions, and resource waste. The Smart Bubble System (SBS) enables real-time oil condition monitoring, allowing companies to shift from fixed intervals to predictive maintenance. By optimizing oil usage and extending component lifespan, SBS reduces costs and environmental impact.

  • Lower Total Cost of Ownership: Reduce oil consumption, maintenance efforts, and operational costs with optimized lubrication strategies.
  • Increased Sustainability: Minimize waste oil generation and reduce CO₂ emissions through condition-based oil changes and extended service life.
  • Higher ROI: Extend component lifespan and prevent lubrication-related failures, maximizing asset utilization and reducing downtime.